Technology telling you what foul has been committed or whose World Cup leg got in the way of another person’s leg, and did that hand actually touch the ball thus aiding the referee to make accurate decisions, are some of the outstanding hi tech innovations that was accomplished with the expert help of artificial intelligence during the recently concluded World Cup. But did you also see that ultimately, it was the referee’s decision — a human being — that was finally considered? Take heart educators, your jobs are intact come what may. Even if the ball crosses the goal line for a few milliseconds — an act that is not obviously clear to the human eye — the newest technology is able to capture it immediately and relay it to the referee right away. Based on all the trending and awesome technology, we can safely say that the recently concluded World Cup has displayed the most accurate decisions so far. In the education arena where your future fate is shaped and then decided; what does that imply for educators, parents and the policy makers from the Government? That we are educating minds and brains for jobs that do not even exist right now; jobs that will require one to be very versatile, to be able to adapt to whatever situation they are put in, is a very mind boggling fact. The preparation for the nameless job market in that case would be holistic: enabling students to be smart thinkers and highly emotionally intelligent. With the aforesaid skills, the much impressionable students will be able to cope; no matter what. Numerous opportunities for teachers to create even more exciting teaching resources have arisen from the season of the World Cup too. Any subject, and for students at any level, which can appreciate the significance of the World Cup can creatively innovate a variety of meaningful, and at the same time, exciting resources for their students. Math lessons can involve a lot of calculations, data analysis of teams and number of goals. The geography class can include engaging a class to search for the countries that participated in the World Cup on a globe or world map, or finding out their weather, food, type of landscape, for example. For the English teacher, requesting students to discuss preferences in terms of players and playing styles can be the beginning of a worthwhile class project.
