Kochi: Technocrat and founder CEO of Technopark G. Vijayaraghavan on Firday said that schools should foster innovation and creativity and inculcate the habit of continuous life-long self-learning among students. Making a presentation on the first day of the all-Kerala CBSE principals conference, Mr Vijayaraghavan said the fourth industrial revolution that harps on digitising companies through high end technology has arrived. “The first industrial revolution was powered by steam engines, the second by electric power and the third one by electronics and IT and now is time for digitisation by high end technology,” he said.
He told the principals that the key skills that the world will be looking in the coming days are “complex problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, people management, coordinating with others, emotional intelligence, judgement and decision making, service orientation, negotiation and cognitive flexibility,” Mr Vijayaraghavan said.
The key capabilities that schools need to develop in students are “to respond to the needs of fourth industrial revolution, become digital and learn not just at classrooms, but at workplace and lifelong,” he said. “These capabilities can be built by combining digital and traditional models, creating a global perspective for students, inculcating continuous self-learning and internalising values in every student’s heart,” he added.
