“Education is not the learning of facts, but teaching the mind how to think.”

Albert Einstein

There has been much frustration about the way that remote delivery of university subjects has been handled. Whether it be students who are not getting their perceived value out of their subjects, or overworked and underpaid teaching staff, everyone is exhausted. Because of this, how we learn and the methods that we have thought of as necessary to learn have come into question.

In this peculiar situation, is it enough to continue measuring learning by our ability to recall facts? Or, is it time to start teaching our minds to think like Futurists so that we are better able to adapt next time a situation such as the COVID-19 pandemic comes along?

After my experiences with remote learning, I favour the latter.

Critical Self Reflection

I must admit, after an exhausting 10 weeks and…