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Technology and the education of the future
We must train our teachers to improve their ability in the art of delivering knowledge by mastering critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity skills.
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Shared resources: A resident in the Depok Mulya housing complex in Depok, West Java, provides free internet access on Aug. 3, 2020 to two students learning from home under the COVID-19 restrictions. (JP/P.J. Leo)
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here is a famous saying that "your children are not your children; but they are the children of their era". Yes, that one line of Kahlil Gibran's poetry should remind us parents that our children will be different from us. So, do not be surprised.
The Lebanese-American poet is also known as Gibrān (Jubrān) Kahlīl Gibrān (Jubrān) bin Mikhā’īl bin Sa’ad. Kahlīl means friend; Jubrān means to console, comfort.
According to Cendrine Marrouat (2022), Gibran had to Americanize his name when he moved to Boston with his mother and siblings in 1895 at the age of 12. He died very young, at the age of 48, due to “cirrhosis of the liver with incipient tuberculosis”. He nevertheless has a worthy life, because he is the third-most widely read poet in history, after Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.
No worries. We will be able to visit him, chat with him and to live his life vicariously in the future via information technology breakthrough.
We celebrated the National Education Day exactly during Idul Fitri holiday. There is no coincidence according to God, but let us entertain the chance.
We develop skills through a series of learning and experience. Failures and successes have shaped our competency and personality. We are becoming educated people, thanks to our parents and teachers.
Using information processing theory, we believe that a person can develop a set of memories based on his or her interaction with the surrounding world.
