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Learning for digital natives connected to life or do you know about Ola cabs?

By Lukas Ritzel, Luzern, Switzerland, November 28,2015

Academic References: Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration,Grenoble Graduate School of business, Harward extension, Asian Institute of TechnologyBusiness References: Accenture Global ConsultantHighlights: Purple Cow award winner, TEDx speaker, management thinking mistakes app in store .. And a lecture to bright people gathered today in India

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Education for Life

• Last year I talked about the internet filter, mobile and augmented reality and there impact to global education

• Today i want to get more into details on what educators fail to prepare our kids for a corporate business life

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Digital everywhereThe Filter Bubble spreading more and more and nobody knows about it

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Digital everywhereMobile –phone Zombies

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Digital everywhereFrom hackers who fight global terrorist digital more effective than governments with their war drones

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Digital everywhereInstant viral spread of symbols of peace and hope in times of sadness

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Digital everywhereDigital game changers supporting revolution and demonstrate transparency

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Digital everywhereAccenture has established a lead in Digital India, used to describe services such as analytics, content management, social media and cloud services. Digital is the fastest-growing and high-margin vertical, and has attracted the attention of all outsourcers

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Digital everywhereDigital Education in India?

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Where else than in the classroom?

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Digital India: Our Net connect is still below parnew report from the Broadband Commission for Digital Development

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Some lowdowns

• 1.2 -of every 100 Indian has a broadband subscription

• 99.6% rural households have no Internet access, according to the National Sample Survey Organization.

• 34% of social media users in India are college students.

• 75% of Indian users will access the Internet only through mobile devices by the end of 2015, according to the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS).

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4 solutions that can provide a way out, according to the Centre for Internet and Society:

• Introduce Internet-based applications in areas like agriculture and healthcare

• Increase digital literacy• Reduce cost of Internet access• Improve infrastructure for low-cost, high-

speed connectivity in semi-urban and rural India.

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How can educators prepare our future thinkers and professionals best?

• Don’t learn only facts and figures• Update your topics to applied solution findings, to

international communications, encourage creativity and making mistakes, include top breaking stories into classroom, encourage entrepreneurship and learning by experience, teach students to dream big, involve students into global collaborative classroom projects.

• Learn how to search and find the answer right on the spot, right when you need them(side effect: more time for other skills to learn)

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How have you been so well prepared by your school(s) to be able to work so efficient within a digital virtual environment (I mean not so much your technical skills but more the soft skills like knowing how to email communicate, how to teamwork in a virtual

environment, how to work within a cultural diverse environment)

• Schools I attended encouraged learning by experimentation. Many experiments required the use of technology from as basic as a microscope to as complex as an 8051 micro controller. This developed an appetite to learn new instruments/gadgets and curiosity helped me master them. As digital communication technology in India changed from 2G to 3G and now 4G, my colleagues and I communicated with our global peers well and we were more prepared to deal well in a virtual, culturally diverse environment.

• My school had lot of extracurricular activities like debate, extempore, sports at regional and national level. So we were groomed to be ready for these activities. We had hands on exposure to computers very early and good guidance from our teachers on these subject. Since, I come from a convent school, English was my language and it was polished by highly skilled teachers on our school.

• In my school/college we had lectures that were taken to improve the soft skills, to make us understand how should we work and balance out things when we work in teams.

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What could your school have done better to prepare you for your job

• I am basically an introvert by nature. I wished my school would have recognized this and pushed me harder to overcome this. I used to shy away participation in stage events. Had, my school helped me in this in my formative years, I might be at a different level today.

• Since, I have completed my higher studies outside India, I have seen and felt the difference Web can make to an education system. When I was in school, I was only taught in theory but Web has the capability to practically demonstrate the theory through animations. It also gives a student multiple perspective to a problem giving them the freedom to build on their opinion.

• They might have taken some lectures about the way professional world works. So as to just provide a brief overview about it.

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Think one level down, what do you believe should Indian average schools for middle class Indians do better to prepare them for business life (not at the

level you work but just average business)

• So a majority of the average middle class Indian is imagined as an engineer working for one of the IT majors like Infosys, TCS, CTS, Wripro or HCL. There should be professional trainings in association with these tech-organizations where in employees who are currently in a role which the students would later take on - can educate them on the professional ettiquette and methods of team-meetings/taking minutes of the meeting and work on Microsoft excel which is heavily used across businesses.

• I think they need to take a more practical approach and not get go bogged down on theory. It needs to have more case study kind of approach since the formative years of kids so that kids can build on it.

• Internet has still not penetrated into the India Education system as it should. Most parents/schools see it destructive weapon since nobody really understands how it could be used, nobody has really thought about revolutionizing the education system.

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How did you learn to get relevant information out of the web

• I was never taught - self learning and learning from peers. Google search helped and when it didn’t work - tried to use a different keyword combination (search query)

• I am a voracious reader, am I like learning new things. I have been exposed to internet at a very early stage in my life and I mostly learnt everything by trying it out or by enrolling for online courses or asking questions in forums.

• Most of the times I have learnt it on my own by surfing.

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What should I tell to Global Educational Research Association ?

• Schools/Colleges should start introducing internet education on a big scale so that the students that step out in the corporate world are confident enough that they can survive in this world. Be it technical knowledge or be it the etiquettes that one would require to communicate should all be provided to all.

Kaushal Shah, 23, working with me in my daily high paced and high volume Accenture consulting job as my most important technical developer. The top performing technical developer with an incredible strike rate of 99.68

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What should I tell to Global Educational Research Association ?

• I think today’s professors have to be very creative while educating the digital generation and learn how could the Internet be used for helping students understand better and use those new channels constructively. Professors need to help students think and develop their analytical skills. Rote learning will not help in today’s digital era.

Shweta Shenoy, 28, working with me in my daily high paced and high volume Accenture consulting job as my offshore project manager one of the top performers at Accenture P2C off-shore team level

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What should I tell to Global Educational Research Association ?

• First of all, Please upgrade your cell phones - from feature phones to smartphones, someday try to use a MacBook and be genuinely curious about technology - let students take over in the class and encourage them about positively using tech to impact lives at a large scale. Don’t prepare them for just small jobs - prepare them to be entrepreneurs.

• Please tell them what happened yesterday with Housing.com and Ola cabs rather than telling them about some 50 year old textbook material. The world is changing every minute – don’t be lost in the past.

Gautam Jain, 25, my student at GGSB back in 2012Today working at Google

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अलवि�दा !

Lukas Ritzel – connect with me through LinkedIn http://ch.linkedin.com/in/lukasritzel