For a Significantly Better Educational Experience

Next week, I will participate in a round table at the Readimagine meeting organized by Editorial Anaya (Madrid). Below, I will share some of the ideas I will be discussing.

From your experience and point of view, what are the educational challenges that we face today? In addition to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of technology, and the decline in PISA scores, which others do you think are there and need to be addressed?

My biggest concerns relate to a need for more curiosity, attention, and creativity in the classroom (and also in company!). I am not referring to a specific problem of the students: all parties involved, including the school authorities, suffer from this same problem.

I understand curiosity as a hunger for knowledge different from diverse exploration (looking for novel things without purpose), creativity as a capacity to detect gaps and try ingenious solutions, and attention as that scarce Holy Grail that compromises the innovation process. Without attention, there’s nothing else.

When we talk about innovation in education, what do we mean? Can’t it just be about technology but about pedagogy methodologies? Change how we relate to each other, the role of educational centers, and teachers; what do you think about when discussing innovation?

I want to refer to innovation classically, drawing from Oslo’s Manual. Innovation happens when you introduce meaningful optimizations in products, services…