How robotics and coding are shaping the future of Indian students – India Today

The constant evolutions of technology have played an ongoing role in developing the education system and upgrading new learnings. Necessary for enhancing practical learning skills in Indian students. What was earlier limited to computer classes has now further moved to an integrated part of the curriculum.

Tech development has been embedded with education as it imparts real problem-solving skills & critical approach along with out-of-the-box thinking, which ensures the creative horizon ultimately expands in the minds of young students.

The rapid developing technology in a country like India is at the pinnacle of the economic and social fabric. Thus, introducing tech at an early age improves their technological fluency and helps them become a future-ready Indian workforce based on tech.

Technology within the education system allows children to broaden their perspective of the increasing interconnectedness and interdependence in the world smartly. It has enabled digital classrooms and interactive e-learning solutions which have now become the core of the education culture/system in India. With advancements like AI, STEM education, machine learning, etc., enhance their decision-making ability and empower them to become independent decision-makers.

Parents with increasing awareness, now understand the importance of early development and adopting subjects like robotics and coding early in life. If adopted from a young age coding and robotics will help in the overall development of children.

Programming and designing are very vast fields, it is neither limited nor fixed, therefore, students are encouraged to think of various possibilities, analyze and use logic and reasoning to come up with the method best suited to their skills. The trend of techies in demand in India has only been going up, and no doubt that the future very much lies in the merit of the technology.

A plethora of career opportunities for children has opened up since the inception of STEM education as it involves various principles of mechanical and electrical engineering. Technology as space is so vast that it possibly touches every small segment of our lives, from our phones to the light in the room, everything is technology.

Thus, including coding and robotics in the K12 curriculum empowers students to think differently, understand the STEM subjects and concepts better, thereby laying a strong foundation for learning and making students future-ready.

There is no fixed method of designing and programming a robot. Therefore, students should be encouraged to think of various possibilities, analyze and use logic and reasoning to come up with the method best suited to their skills. This, in turn, will enhance their decision-making ability and empower them to become independent decision-makers.

What most people at times forget is technology let alone cannot always be sufficient for the development of mankind. In the words of Steve Jobs, technology alone is not enough. It is technology married with liberal arts, married to the humanities, that yields us the results that make our hearts sing. Hence, it automatically becomes important that we focus on all the aspects of life and correlate it with technology, but at the same time understanding the value of those other things go hand in hand.

21st-century skills are the new focus of education, to inculcate habits and develop these skills is not at all an easy task. Schools and parents, understanding the need of the hour of overall development have become more aware of coding and robotics importance.

The problems of today and the unforeseen complex world of tomorrow need to be viewed from multiple lenses of the past and the future. And now that the technology is shaping what the future would look like, it will definitely be impacted by yesterday and today.

Therefore, we can say that technology in education has further created an up-to-date platform filling the need gap between the required skill for employment. It is not only shaping the future of students in India but making it secure for future demands, allowing children an opportunity to prove themselves in a world full of competition and excellence.

Article by Sneha Priya, Co-founder, SP Robotic Works.

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