PERSPECTIVE
Is Education Being
Disrupted by Digital
Technology – An India
Approach
W
hat started off as enlightenment under
a tree, today means having Cerelac
whilst watching cartoons on the IPad.
Over the past couple of decades, the magnitude
of changes experienced by us gives a sneak
peek into the future disruptions that will only
accelerate with time. What shape the future of
education will take is still not fully clear, but
most educators and observers agree that the
future of learning will be beyond the boundaries
of ‘classrooms’. Modern technologies like
Artifi cial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning,
Virtual Reality and Blockchain aren’t just
changing the learning spaces for students:
instead, they are also shaking up the very role of
educators and remodeling modern classrooms.
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| Vol. 10 Issue 3 • MARCH 2019, Delhi NCR
Sahil Nayar
HR Professional working in a leading
consulting fi rm in the country.
From ‘Smart Teachers’ we are now moving to
‘Smart Classrooms’.
So, once confi ned to the pages of futuristic
dystopian fi ctions, new-age technologies promise
to be the most profoundly disruptive shift; since
the industrial revolution and our educational
institutions need to adopt modern systems of
teaching and learning to keep pace.
If we simply go by numbers, by 2030, the
number of school going children in India, in
the age bracket of 4-17 years is estimated to
be 300 million, while 140 million of the youth
population in the age group of 18-23 years
will be enrolled in colleges and universities,