The popular catchword in academia today is Education 4.0, but what exactly does it mean? Do educators really understand the rationale behind the concept, or are they blindly following what others are doing? In order to understand Education 4.0, it is necessary to first understand what the 4th Industrial Revolution (IR4.0) is all about. In addition, a lot of educator and researcher explains that the new vision of learning promotes learners to learn not only skills and knowledge that are needed but also to identify the source to learn these skills and knowledge.
The Education 4.0 for Youth project will take a look at IR4.0 and how it has affected changes in education, while also addressing the following questions and trends:
- What is Education 4.0?
- What are the preferred teaching methodologies and preferred learning styles of today’s students?
- What skills are necessary for 21st century teachers?
- What is Lifelong Learning and to whom does it apply?
- How can educators and industry collaborate to create new teaching methodologies and curriculum?
Trends:
- Learning can be taken place anytime anywhere.
- Learning will be personalized to individual students.
- Students have a choice in determining how they want to learn.
- Students will be exposed to more project-based learning.
- Students will be exposed to more hands-on learning through field experience such as internships, mentoring projects and collaborative projects.
- Students will be exposed to data interpretation in which they are required to apply their theoretical knowledge to numbers and use their reasoning skills to make inferences based on
- logic and trends from given sets of data.
- Students will be assessed differently and the conventional platforms to assess students may become irrelevant or insufficient.
- Students’ opinion will be considered in designing and updating the curriculum.
- Students will become more independent in their own learning, thus forcing teachers to assume a new role as facilitators who will guide the students through their learning process.
OBJECTIVES:
The aim of the project is to identify the basic IT skills, strengths, weaknesses and gaps of students learning in virtual environments.
To create a highly skilled work force with the digital and technological competencies that employers expect through changes in teaching methodology, the inclusion of new technology in lessons and the design of a new curriculum.
Our objectives in this project, will achieve following outputs while answering the questions and explaining the trends mentioned in context section.
- Creating a Skill Competency Map,
- Creating a digital platform,
- Creating a new approach and content for learning and teaching,
- Increase awareness about “education 4.0”
TARGET GROUPS:
The target groups are state and private high schools, VET schools, teachers, trainers, students and local major employers in Kahramanmaraş. The Education 4.0 for Youth project will bring the target groups together to raise awareness, share knowledge and expertise and conduct digital surveys designed for each target group.
MAIN ACTIVITIES:
1st Activity – FORMING THE PROJECT TEAM AND TASK DISTRIBUTION
Roles and Responsibilities: Teknokent and Ed-U-Tek will be responsible for organizing and hosting the meeting.
2nd Activity – KICK-OFF MEETING
Roles and Responsibilities: Teknokent will be responsible for organizing and hosting the meeting.
5th Activity – SURVEYS and DATA COLLECTION FROM RELEVANT INSTITUTIONS
Roles and Responsibilities: Teknokent and all partners will be responsible for the implementation of this action.
8th Activity – TRANSNATIONAL MEETINGS
Transnational meetings will be held between the project partners to discuss the coordination and implementation of the project.
Roles and Responsibilities: Host partners will be responsible for the implementation of this action.
10th Activity – EVALUATION AND MONITORING
Education 4.0 for Youth White Paper Report
An in-depth report will be written about Education 4.0 and the challenges faced by education in meeting the technological skills needs of students as well as industry. Using a problem/solution approach, readers will be introduced to the issues of how IR4.0 has influenced changes in education and possible solutions for integrating the technology desired by employers into the curriculum and classrooms today. The facts and opinions expressed in the Education 4.0 for Youth white paper will be backed by original research and statistics that have been aggregated from reliable sources. It will also include informative charts, graphs, tables, and other means of visualizing the data. It will be published online and made available from the Education 4.0 for Youth website.
Roles and Responsibilities: All partners will responsible the establishing the organization, evaluation and monitoring of their assigned activities in the project.
11th Activity – CLOSING MEETING
Roles and Responsibilities: The organization and hosting of the meeting will be the responsibility of Teknokent.
12th Activity – FINAL REPORT
Roles and Responsibilities: Teknokent and all partners will be responsible.
PROJECT RESULTS:
- The first Skills Competency Map for the youth of Kahramanmaraş
- The publication of the Education 4.0 for Youth white paper report
- A new teaching methodology and learning content
- The Education 4.0 for Youth website
- Mobile app
- Digital platform
The Skills Competency Map that will indicate areas of strengths and weaknesses, enabling the accurate design of a new teaching methodology that will effectively close skills gaps. One of project goals is to decrease drop-out rates in Europe and within this goal project is developed to appeal of the interests of youth to keep them motivated to complete their education. The website, mobile app, digital platform and white paper report will continue to be maintained, with free access.
PROJECT PARTNERS:
🇹🇷 Turkey – Kahramanmaras Teknokent Yonetici A.S.
🇬🇷 Greece – INSTITUTE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
🇱🇻 Latvia – Ecological Future Education
🇷🇴 Romania – ASOCIATIA TINERILOR CU INITIATIVA CIVICA
🇲🇰 Macedonia – CET PLATFORMA SKOPJE
🇸🇮 Slovenia – Drustvo Bodi svetloba
🇹🇷 Turkey – Ed-U-Tek
