IdentityShailendra Singh_M.Tech IITDelhi
Product/Industrial Designer FairCAD.com
Professional Development and STEM Educator
Former Professor Amity University, Noida
Guest Faculty SUPVA University Gurgaon
Guest Speaker IIT Delhi (Product Design)
As a Product Designer, Educator and a Former Professor, I truly believe that education and learning must be fun and enjoyable. Right from when we were kids, we loved learning new skills. But as we grew older we started hating it, simply because of the wrong approach.
A major reason of starting to hate learning is that we can no longer relate the skills being taught to our daily life and we can't find any use of it in the world, outside the school walls.
Having tested almost every career after my engineering (Freelance, Business, Education, Industry, Startups, YouTube...) I can certainly say that the skills that are taught in schools (most of it) are definitely useful outside the school wall, If only we can relate those with what we see outside.
If a teacher truly understands why the subjects and skills are useful after the school years, he/she can teach student how to connect the dots. But the problem is that most teachers are not teachers by choice buy by necessity and hence they themselves do not or can't connect the inside and the outside worlds.
I want to change that and show learners how math, science, computers, history etc. can help take very important decisions in their lives and make them a truly individual in life. Here is how the basic subjects taught help us make critical life decisions:
Math can show us why a business will be profitable and help us take decisions before starting and in early stages of a business History shows us using live examples what should not be repeated and how the world used to work and can work in future which is the key to a successful life
Computers show how can we automate and perform tasks faster by creating new and better technology Science helps us understand the world around us and adapt to the laws of nature and thrive no matter what may come
If we can understand why something is important to learn it becomes fun to learn and ultimately that is what curriculum designers in schools are trying to achieve.
But the gab can only be bridged by passionate teachers who go the extra mile to help learners relate what they see in the outside world with what they learn inside the school.
