Reimagining the future of education

Today, we are witnessing a period of rapid change, which is challenging us to rethink how we can prepare our young people for a successful future in an increasingly complex world.

The boundaries of learning are evolving and as leaders in the education sector, we are having to reimagine the future of education, and what shape it will take. We can no longer afford to think that conventional learning in schools and classrooms will be the only way to educate in the future.

To achieve this, we need to ask ourselves; what does 21st century learning look like? How do we embrace artificial intelligence in a learning environment? How can we curate leading-edge, impactful learning programs that equip our students for a dynamic and globally minded future?

At the PMSA, we will be launching our 20 year vision in 2024 and a key priority for us is to expand our educational experiences and instil principles which foster educational environments that are centred around inspiring human experiences.

This includes building on experiential learning initiatives such as outdoor learning programs where students have an opportunity to develop additional skills and enhance important behavioural characteristics like resilience, self-reliance, creativity and leadership.

We want to ignite student potential and collaborate with like-minded partners to cultivate valuable alliances worldwide that will drive positive change across our sector and embrace digital technology to drive and support transformative outcomes.

We are already seeing the impact of how the various forms of electronic interactions and technological advancements, including the emergence of AI, are impacting our students.

There is great potential to use AI wisely to better support teaching and learning and prepare students for the workforce of the future. AI represents some incredible opportunities for us, to potentially reduce a teacher’s workload and create a fun, interactive and tailored learning experience for students.

It is encouraging to see the steps our State Government is already taking to adopt AI and trial an artificial intelligence teaching and learning tool in some schools. The challenge will be how we balance the time spent in our digital and physical worlds and, more broadly, the ethics and governance around the use of AI to ensure the effect on our students is positive.

There is no doubt we are on the precipice of some exciting changes in education. Our goal is to ensure that we are at the forefront, developing innovative, future focussed curricular and co-curricular programs in an environment that allows our students to bring their passion and talents to life.