BE READY FOR EDUCATION 4.0

FASTEN your seat belts and let me take you through a tour of how the education is going look few years from now.

  • Imagine, if a child has to learn how photosynthesis happen; why ask him to read a book! Why can’t we teleport him virtually inside a leaf where he himself can see how the leaves are converting the light energy into chemical energy.

  • Imagine, a chemistry student not needing to go to a lab. He can do all his experiments and tests in a virtual chemical lab without even moving out.
  • Imagine, if instead of studying geography in books; a student can actually travel a water fall, Gorge, volcano, a desert or even Antarctica and have a real life experience of the world.

  • Imagine a kid actually visiting a jungle and interacting with all the wild animals as if he is actually in a jungle.
  • Imagine how would it be, that instead of reading in a book the functioning of the heart, the picture of heart comes to life, starts beating and explains it’s functioning itself.
  • Imagine a kid seeing a car and asking how it functions. Rather than you or teacher explaining, the car itself explain it's different components and physics behind its operations.


IF THIS HAPPENS, IT WOULD BE A WORLD WHERE -
 
  • There  is no teacher but every object comes to life and teaches about itself.
  • The student need not learn and retain information but experience the knowledge face to face.
  • Books communicate two way.
  • Students need not go to schools but school comes right at their door steps. 
  • No student would ever be called 'DULL'
  • Exams would only mean application of knowledge
  • Where magic and science will live together.

DOES it not sound like a life from Avatar or Harry Potter movie.

Yes that’s how it is going to look like. It is no more a magic now. This is the reality.

Schools and colleges are closed, online education has taken over. And this is just the beginning.

This revolution was any way inevitable but the COVID 19 crisis has just speeded up the whole process. And this revolution would be called-

EDUCATION 4.0

It is the 4th education revolution in lines with the 4th industrial revolution which is round the corner. And will see the introduction of  

IMMERSIVE REALITY- Virtual reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed reality.

In VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) our senses are immersed into a virtual world in a way that it starts appearing like a real world. Just like it happened in movie Avatar and Matrix. Below video will give a glimpse of how it would be like.


 

In AUGMENTED REALITY (AR), which is one step ahead of VR, here the virtual world gets imposed on real world. Here real objects start virtually speaking about themselves. Like the suit of Tony Stark in the movie Iron Man which does all the virtual analysis of the real world. Below is an example from a school in Kerela which has already started using it.



MIXED REALITY (MR) is the latest of all, which is the mixture of VR and AR. Here both virtual and augmented reality interact in and with real world as shown in below video.


 

WHAT THIS TECHNOLOGY WOULD REQUIRE IS:

- Good, preferably 5G, internet connection

- V.R. head set

- AR lenses 

- AR mobile application

- Motion Sensors 

- VR enabled smart phones. 

In other fields, this technology is already getting introduced by BIG market players. Amuse yourself with some videos.

JIO is shortly introducing 5G internet technology and Jio glasses. These glasses are nothing but AR/ VR glasses.

 

GOOGLE has already come up with Google AR maps and Google Earth VR and will soon launch it.


 

IKEA has also introduced AR which is going to revolutionize the online shopping experience.

 

THERE are still many bottlenecks in its mass introduction and especially in India. But who ever thought that once most of the India will be carrying smart phones with them. Similarly, sooner than later we are going to see this revolution taking over every aspect of our lives.

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