Sustainable education can take many forms. With the way our world is changing and evolving, I believe that there will be a shift in education away from people having degrees to prove that they are qualified. We will be pushed into a new realm of learning and people will be judged by their skill rather than a piece of paper. Education will move to providing more hands on learning where you learn by actually doing things rather than being forced to sit in a classroom taking notes. The realm of learning will be broadened and diversified.
Every kind of education will become available to you through social media and the Internet. Progression towards students being able to take classes from across the country will become available. Me, being a student in St. George, UT at Dixie will be able to enroll in a class offered at Harvard, Princeton, or even as far as Oxford University. This transition in education will open up so many doors for students and give them ore opportunities to gain the knowledge that they desire. The thing about this kind of education is it is self motivated. Students will be able to learn what they want to learn and push themselves as far as they want to go. Being actively engaged in learning will provide them with more knowledge.
Students will be able to utilize apps such as iTunes U, podcasts, etc. to further extend their knowledge and it will mean something and be recognized. In our education system now, if a student were to use iTunes U, those classes taken would not go towards a degree and would go unrecognized, but students would be able to use the applications and use them to their advantage. In the future these will mean something.
Another factor to take into consideration is the money that will be saved by implementing sustainability into an institution. It cuts down on costs to have cost-effcient energy and self sustaining gardens for food. At the time there is a lot of money invested to get these things going, but once they are implemented, the long term effects are when you will be gaining the most profit. This could potentially lead to higher teacher salaries, higher quality education and research resources and so forth. It is worth the long term goal.
With the vertical farm, we want people to continue to have access to public education, but we also are going to implement the importance of hands on learning. Residents there will be able to learn how each element of sustainability works. They will learn about growing gardens and the science therein. They will learn how the energy powering the development works and how it is beneficial. They will gain hands on experience in the wide variety of fields and gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of why this is important and how it will help the environment around the world. If these people gain this knowledge and understand and are able to share and teach others about it.
With people learning by doing and implementing that knowledge into helping others, we will be able to share and teach others of its importance. We hope this hsouing development and community will be a place of learning. Students will be able to come here as a form of continuing education and use it for internships. By learning through these techniques and making the students have the initiative to learn these things and push themselves into learning these new technologies. This will ultimately promote the change that we wish to make in our education system. We realize that this is not something that will happen over night, but if this were taken even on a smaller scale, we will still be taking one step forward, rather than three steps back.
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