Art of Teaching: A Hope to Hear the Youth Communicate | Ashima Syal

Teaching is an Art, and to keep the artistry alive is the challenge which the current educational scenario brings. With the advent of AI and other technological hacks, knowledge seems to pronounce itself with the ease of availability and accessibility. This resorting to the quick arena of the internet, is what is keeping the GENZ’s of today away from using their creativity, their minds potential to the fullest. The teachers of today no longer embrace chalk and duster, they make use of white digitized boards.

With a nominal attention span of students, activity-based learning is the requirement of skill-based teaching. The size of a class being of a giant eighty and with youth, which is only distracted, teachers find it the most challenging when they give an experiential classroom task to students, to gauge their learning, the students struggle hard to complete it, they find it challenging to put their own perspective in front, they at once become restless and resort to AI for answers.

When asked “Why students choose AI over making an effort themselves, their upfront answer lies in the fact that when at the click of a button, answers to almost all questions are available, then they prefer to surrender to the machine rather than trust their own brains."

This over- dependence of students today towards the massive hub of technology is alarming, every teacher believes strongly that all students are unique in their own way, more conversations and practical tasks should be encouraged in the classroom on a daily basis so that the students are habituated, encouraged to answer questions using their own vision.

If the youth, the future of our country, is only technology driven, then will originality fade away? With activity-based learning, we can still keep the hope of a better future alive, perhaps a more authentic and creative one. Teaching is the only hope alive in a way that the art of communication does not die. Or else a time will come, where we will harshly have to see the youth losing their liveliness, slowly turning into machines. The question is would we want to be a part of such a mechanized future that completely kills creativity?

Despite innumerable classroom challenges, a teacher chooses to keep the hope of teaching alive, for every teacher knows that no machine can prevail over the periphery of teaching. In this technology-loomed world, let us keep the hope of teaching alive.

Ashima Syal, is a passionate poetess. She is a spoken - word poet. Ashima authored two books of poetry titled Canopy and the Fragrant Fable. Ashima also conducts her creative writing workshops for college students. Currently, Ashima is teaching Communication Skills to the first year management students. etry, titled Cnopy and the Frgrant Fable.