Center for Creative Learning, IIT Gandhinagar

We all learn best when we make, explore, pull things apart, and put them back together. Our current competitive and fast-paced system, however, seldom provides space for such learning. We are so focused on covering the curriculum in schools that we forget to enliven the classrooms.

The present system of school education is well acknowledged as being plagued by several issues, including, but not limited to: growing disinterest in the classroom, distraction due to modern technologies, increasing concern about the relevance of the syllabi taught and the fear that it becomes quickly dated, and so on. 

There is a great need to restructure our schools in this era of information overload. Having less information about something is no longer a problem. We are generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day and all of it is just some clicks away. We need to think really hard about what we teach and how we teach. Computers are already on the verge of making teachers redundant in their current state. Our teachers need to quickly re-engineer their style to remain relevant in the upcoming future…read more on NOPR