Little steps towards a brighter future
As a parent, it is definite to wish for your children a life filled with chances and experiences. To fulfill that purpose, making sure that a child learns the fundamental values to succeed in life is a must.
Today, we live in a fast-developing world with the most opportunities granted to the younger generations. We entrust our knowledge and life experiences into their little hands in hopes that they will grow with a strong mindset that can aid in transforming the world into a safer, healthier place.
The most recent occurrence that is proven to bring in huge changes into our country is the World Expo happening in Dubai this year. With multiple themes that contribute to bettering our community and the well-being of our planet, Expo 2020 has been able to make decades worth of impact for the generations to come all through the innovations popularized through the exhibition. Themes such as Sustainability, Opportunity, and Mobility will radiate hope and vision for a better future in our societies.
As a young explorer, freshly introduced to society, sky’s the limit. Being at such a young age, nothing is impossible in the eyes of the young ones. Hence, understanding of environmental and moral values is easy for a child to grasp. It could be even easier for a child to use their brains for big world resolutions. All that’s missing is the action of cultivating these little geniuses and exposing them to new opportunities and experiences. By doing so, you are ensuring a day full of adventures and a child full of curiosity and later a future full of promising opportunities.
However, bringing in big topics such as global environmental issues, artificial intelligence, and sustainability can be a lot to handle at once for a tender aged child. That’s why it’s substantial to incorporate simple actions and facts into the daily life of a growing child.
At Little Feet Nursery, we have implemented a system of “Reuse and Recycle” into our daily routines. As soon as some materials, paper for instance, are used, they are saved for further usage instead of being discarded. Same rule would apply to activity and stationary tools all around the nursery. Showing children such actions of responsibilities towards themselves and their environment teaches them to care for their surroundings and the impact that they have on the world around them. Teachers at the nursery explain the concept of reusing and recycling the smallest things to their young pupils to make sure the practice is planted in their minds.
Similarly, through curricular activities and themed celebrations, we’ve set up days that focuses on the ocean and the marine life where we teach our children not to litter plastic or other wastes into the ocean as the dangers are critical onto the oceanic creatures. Bringing in the value of responsibility helps a child understand at an early stage the weight and impact that they can bring to the bettering of the environmental state of the planet as they grow older and practice the values that they’ve learned.
Apart from sustainability, another theme of mobility that Expo 2020 brings to the stage is all about keeping the world in motion and moving towards a brighter as well as smarter future. Through several pavilions within the world exhibition, the theme of mobility shows itself in the form of high-tech innovations and eye-opening ideas that plan on renovating society.
Advanced technology is the groundbreaker of innovations of the modern era, and the current most used method for presenting information in a modernist fashion. Besides artificial intelligence (AI), which has become a well-known invention in today’s generation, Augmented Reality, which can be defined as an interactive experience of a real-world environment where objects, images, or sceneries that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information, has also been included in the genre of advanced technologies that have been playing a role in creating a utopian narrative to the world.
We have worked on connecting the elements of knowledge and advanced technology and reformed it into academic material for the education of our children at the nursery. We’ve done so by selecting general topics taught in our curriculum that are fundamental for a child’s growing knowledge and using Augmented Reality as the method of teaching those topics. We have talked about how this technology works and how it has been bringing joy to the classrooms in a separate blog post, please check it out for more information.
Through incorporating such morally valuable topics, we’d have provided a huge possibility for the child to grow with vast opportunities filled with knowledge and success. Despite the weight of these grand innovations and concerning topics, we were able to easily blend them in with our methods of teaching to provide a fun and unique learning experience to our little ones in hopes that they will bring greater changes to our world, step by step.