JAKARTA -The digital economy has the potential to deliver an additional US$13 trillion in global economic activity by 2030 with Indonesia’s digital sector contributing around US$336 billion to its GDP, said Shweta Khurana, Director APJ – Global Partnerships & Initiatives Group, Intel Corporation on 2nd Annual Indonesia Education Forum 2021.
AI technology is still evolving and is not confined just to the tech sector but are being incorporated across the economy to sectors such as agriculture, energy, education, government, health, industrial, media, transportation, retail, and many more. “This could be a challenge emerging in the future and the answer to solve this challenge lies under the concept of digital readiness. Digital readiness is a combination not just of learning technology. But also picking up the right skills, having the trust to apply the skills effectively and ensuring that the application is impactful in a way that the solution are more productive and more efficient,” she said.
Dr. Ir. M.M. Inggriani, Chairperson BeBras Indonesia NBO in her keynote address said that computational thinking must incorporate problem solving skills to be an effective, efficient, and optimal solution. It has to be implemented at the start of the education journey of a student. It’s a process that should inculcated into children so they can start to think at an early age on how to solve a problem in an effective way, so when they face a bigger problem, they won’t be overwhelmed.
During the panel, Anindito Aditomo, S.Psi., M.Phil., Ph.D., Head of Research, Ministry of Education and Culture, Republic of Indonesia said that people nowadays are saying that changing the curriculum won’t change anything in education. But little do they know that curriculum is a powerful conceptual infrastructure. Once it takes place, the curriculum would set the direction, the scope, the speed and the sequence of teaching. It holds the power of the future.
Prof Johannes Lindner, Head of e.e.si Entrepreneurship Education Center of the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Research & Member of the EU Entrepreneurship Curriculum Development Team stated that it’s an important point to go deep into some areas of learning. The problem in many schools is that they are only knowledge-oriented. So they are missing the skills and the attitude aspects.