Role of evaluation and
assessment is critical to all aspects of life, be it personal or professional,
We as human beings are constantly evolving by implementing, taking feedback and
reviewing. While for adults like us, it becomes the need based and self-motivating
evolution, students especially in the age-group of 13 to 19 require
hand-holding in streamlining the resources, abilities and talents they have.
Let’s take an example of
mobile & internet, with almost 400 million users in India alone, it can be
a powerful tool or a weapon if in wrong hands. How many of us are actually
aware of the fact that we are carrying a “digital footprint device” with us all
the time. What we surf on internet, the searches we make on google or games we
play is recorded by the third party and
used to indulge us more into the same vicious circle.
What becomes imperative
here is to guide our children timely and holistically. And that can be done only when we as counselors,
parents and community have a common goal i.e. a better social-emotional self-management
training for our children.
Social-emotional
learning (SEL),” is the process through which children and adults acquire
and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to
understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show
empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make
responsible decisions” is
used to develop discipline among students. It is a very promising approach that
is able to reduce risky behaviours, increase desirable behaviours, brings
emotional stability and thus results in promoting positive development.
To
achieve this, we need to move towards blended learning, the learning process in
which a student learns at
least in part through delivery of content and instruction via digital and
online media with some element of student control over time, place, path, or
pace. We cannot deny the fact that technology has invaded our every aspect of
life and the only option left with us is to embrace it. The future belongs to
the “Swipe World”. To ensure that our students are keeping up the pace with the
technology and self-management, let’s update our own software.
