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Improving students’ communication skills, for their future

In our increasingly technological world, it is clear that our children’s educational needs are changing faster than teachers can keep up with. We have welcomed technology into our classrooms, equipping students with computers and changing their curriculum to include new subjects meant to prepare them for the future—only to find out that by the time they graduate, what they have learnt will already be obsolete.   Some things never change: people will always communicate So how can we face the challenge of preparing students for a world that will look somehow different from like it does today? Fortunately, there are skills that will always be needed and are in fact in even higher demand now that routine jobs are done by machines and the most promising careers lie in designing them. This is not to say that educators should retreat into teaching outdated facts, disregarding the role of technology in the world and turning schools into strongholds of traditionalism producing students who are