A DIATRIBE IN FAVOR OF A PARADIGM SHIFT IN EDUCATION
A DIATRIBE IN FAVOR OF A PARADIGM SHIFT IN EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: We live in a day and age in which information and technology witness a huge leap of development. Entire generations of pupils and students are accustomed to using means and devices of the 21st Century in searching for information and general knowledge. Moreover, they are continuously bombarded with manipulative messages coming to them in an endless stream of data which pressures them to stay updated and connected to the source. Who is guiding them while surfing through this ocean of information and knowledge? Who is setting landmarks and guiding posts for them? Their rhythm and pace is alert and vivid and they expect nothing less from the schools and lectures they attend. Is education keeping up with the times? It is obvious that the good old ways don’t work anymore. The absolute need for a paradigm shift in education dawned a while back, while specialists in the field identified a deep fracture at the very core structure of a system in absolute need for deep reformation. Now is the time the paradigm shift in education becomes instrumental for the wellbeing of society at large, since the outcome of the obsolete educational processes affects generations of young, beautiful, restless minds, dependent on and glued to technology and modern virtual environments. We, educators, need to wake up and start changing and shifting things around or the future will vilify us. We need to realize that our job as education facilitators is to develop means to skillfully interact with these new generations, continuously bearing in mind that conveying information without building transformational relationships within the educational process, knowledge becomes void of valuable content. Boosting creativity through Blended Learning and Flipped Classroom, encouraging the use of Summative Intelligence and peer / self-evaluation within the learning environment are the building blocks of the Interactive Transformational Education method the present paper aims to briefly introduce and describe within the economy of this format.

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