Challenges of learning in a digital world

The Information Age presents us with new fast developing challenges of a never before seen magnitude. Schools and the education system are making great strides, but with a lack of consensus and resources, achieving tangible results at scale has not been possible. At Colors of talent we believe that we can address the problem with the use of responsible technology, complimenting those efforts in a more efficient manner.

The way of learning of kids has changed

Their attention changes focus easily and the excess of stimuli makes it difficult to work in key aspects like concentration, constancy, or resilience in front of failure. For young people, staying for an hour in a classroom doing the same activity, without being distracted, has become a challenge that us in previous generations can’t fully comprehend.

The objectives of education are reconsidered

In an age where accessible information is practically infinite, accumulation of general culture is no longer an indicator of success. Centralized curricula is no longer a reference in a liquid society in which everything changes much faster. We need to teach how to manage this information in an effective way, selecting what is useful to us, and being flexible.

Families are more aware and critical of the system

The pandemic has been, in a lot of cases, an opportunity to be closer to young people. We’ve been able to witness the distance between their educative reality and the future that families see is about to come. While at home they manage a huge amount of apps, at school they’re still following the traditional format. Boredom is a constant in the learning process and the specific needs are mostly left unattended.

Schools don’t have the needed means to keep up with the Digital Revolution

We face many challenges that will be difficult to overcome if we only substitute books with tablets and we introduce the computer to the classroom. While the industry and other institutions have been immersed in a profound digital transformation for years, the school, for structural reasons (the main one being lack of means), is not being able to achieve this. Our classrooms can be better updated, offering a more suitable service to families, streamlining their dynamics and internal structures.