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COMMENT: If education can sustain its work towards this one core goal, we may be able to hold our own in this fast changing and somewhat threatening world.

All around the world, including in South Africa, one hears people talking about the fourth industrial revolution . Some talk with enthusiasm, others with anxiety.

How many professors of education today can tell one in any detail what coding and robotics means, let alone teach about this? This is a humbling experience for those who have been in education for many years. The digital age has already created new vistas for young teachers, as landscapes open through the World Wide Web, collaboration is promoted through social networks, and new forms of literacy emerge. This in itself, even before we reach fourth industrial revolution, is leaving many teachers and teacher educators behind.

One also needs to remember that the bells, whistles and keyboards of technology do not always make for an effective learning environment. So this is where teacher education might — and rightfully so — be accused of still being conservative.

 

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