An article from the international CAD software company's Chief of
Education, released in February, is stating the great importance of the
next generations correct education. He fervently states that it is not
only the use of new technologies we need to teach as they become
implemented more and more in educational settings, but the need for the
understanding of how the technology works. Otherwise, we could leave a
generation that can perfectly well use the technologies, but can't
innovate nor even fix the products.
The
Chief of Education at AutoDesk, the producers of AutoCAD, states that
part of the problem is that unlike just a few decades ago, people are
not learning what is behind the box, i.e. how it functions. We instead
go to a professional or manufacturer to fix our products as they get
more and more complex. Although this does mean we usually get our
product back in one piece, we are not learning how technologies work,
nor passing on the interest in learning how technologies work to our
future generations. He simply puts it that youngsters are not as
'curious' as they once were, which could possibly harm the future
generations ability to innovate.
A future generation without
innovation or the skills to fix products could be potentially
disastrous. It could leave many de-skilled and unable to create and
design elements, which could be important to our lives in the next 50
year's time. Thus, it is up to the education industry to make those
important decisions that produce a better education system, where people
can rediscover their wonder for innovation and understand how
technologies work. It is also up to us as a society to adapt education
to our new needs and the new brilliant minds of this generation and the
next, which are our future.
The Chief of Education at AutoDesk was
inspired by the TED 2011 conference, named the Rediscovery of Wonder,
which was host to a number of influential and inspirational thinkers in a
variety of industries, from science to the arts. It's important that in
such a time, where we are facing environmental and economic issues,
that we keep our future generation's inspired to innovate, whether that
be in science or the arts. Like the Chief of Education at AutoDesk
states, we must teach our children how to innovate, in order for them to
succeed in the future
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