A session on inclusiveness saw Unesco promote equity over equality to reduce education gaps and its focus on flexible, personalized, and tailor-made education responding to the contexts.
I was quite impressed with Vietnam ka. Efforts have been made for elementary school children to have an exciting first day at school with balloons for them and their parent(s) present.
They are quite proud of the PISA results that were better than OECD members and several countries, Thailand included, also mentioned the importance of PISA. We can more or less use it as a benchmark but may need to review the big picture, which is much more important for us to develop further.
For VN's curriculum innovation, they emphasize on key values like work hard, learn hard, love people and country, honesty, and responsibility. Immediately I thought of our own country ka. Somehow I'm not sure if we've stressed enough the working hard and love people part ka. The sabai culture is far too strong and the nepotism is held tight.
VN views the open labor market in ASEAN as a two-way street for their graduates and people to go out or stay in so the English language is priority.
On STEM Education, Dr. Masami Isoda from Tsukuba University and Math Professor pointed out the historical development of Math in 4 waves, i.e. Geometrical mechanism, algebraic language, Internet/IOT, and Singularity (AI, stats and probability). The following talks were aligned with this one to conclude that 'STEM Literacy is important for the 21st century.'
Dr. Bundit Thipakorn gave a short yet inspiring talk, relating it to Thailand 4.0 to connect the Thais with the current trend. He stated that there was a need for a new ecosystem to make STEM Education work. IOT must mean, Internet of EVERYthing'. Life long learning must be an integral part as well.
For Thailand, Deputy Director of Institute for the Promotion of Teaching Science and Technology (IPST) shared with the meeting its efforts to cascade actions at all levels from the national policies formulated. I liked the public and private partnership, which has yet to be strengthened to ensure sustainability of the projects.
The last speaker was from SEAMEO Regional Language Center, talking about its cooperation with Thailand to train science teachers how to teach the subjects in English plus teaching methodologies for effective communication. It's very helpful to maximize the regional resources and to promote to use of English as part of our ASEAN integration.
Still think of an article I shared earlier how liberal arts students/graduates will be more needed in 5-10 years' time, not now. Think of the soft side with the touch of hearts and our capability to be creative and innovate! Think of living a life with a meaningful purpose!
Challenges are being tackled and all need to be linked and connected as one same picture to ensure favorable learning outcomes of our students and for them to be self-motivated for life-long learning! Whose responsibilities and how to put all the jigsaw puzzles together ka?
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