PAIR DEAL | Education

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The Third Education Revolution: 

For one thousand years the Church has sent students to the university, The Third Education Revolution will enable universities and schools to send students to local churches. Digital curriculum, prepared by the world’s best experts and videographers, will also go to the Church online. Students will be mentored by Academic Pastors who will re-integrate character formation, problem solving aptitude, critical thinking and leadership skills with academic education. The community will help develop vocational skills through internship programs. The partnership of Church, university and technology will make high quality education affordable to virtually everyone.

“The Third Education Revolution is a series of essays to give you, your family, and your church the blueprint for how to create ‘Pillars of Truth’ for future generations.” (Gordon Robertson, Juris Doctor. President, The Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc.)

Thought-provoking essays in this book light up the way for the Christian community to engage with the world God loves, explaining solutions that have worked in the past and offering new solutions that leverage advances in technology and modes of delivery). Here is a way to launch a new revolution in education. (Michael J. Mobley, Ph.D, Professor and Executive Director for Research and Innovation Grand Canyon University)

The Teachers’ Compass:

What Inspired The Teachers’ Compass?

Education worldwide is shifting tracks from content-based memorization to developing personal competencies to fit a changing future world. As the Internet and AI continue to break all barriers of content, speed, and systems, a new teaching-learning mindset is required, based on personal competencies, rather than content (explained in The Third Education Revolution).

The New National Education Policy 2020, is the Indian government’s response to this challenge. With good strategic vision, its comprehensive reach makes it a long term solution, difficult to implement with outdated infra-structure and just a 3-6% allocation of the GDP. Besides, it is burdened with its own ‘cultural’ tilt.

An emphasis on skills without ethics to tether them, leaves the learner without the tools to create a just, harmonious society. The probability is that this generation of school students are educated but ignorant of the Sovereign God, who is the source of the knowledge they gain in school. Neither are they aware of what He intended us to use this knowledge for.

This concern resulted in the creation of The Teachers’ Compass. It is intended for middle school teachers to instill ethical values in students on the threshold of adolescence.