التوجهات الإستراتيجية الحالية لدى وزارة التعليم أن تكون المدرسة الركيزة الأساس في رحلة الطالب التعليمية، والبيئة التي يعوّل عليها تحقيق نواتج تعلّم أفضل، ومحور العمل التربوي فكراً وقيماً وسلوكاً، إلى جانب أن تكون المدرسة منطلقاً للحياة والمستقبل، وحاضنة للمواهب، ومصدراً مهماً في تشكيل العلاقات، ومحكاً في معالجة المواقف، واكتساب التجارب والخبرات.
ومع تلك التوجهات؛ تعتزم وزارة التعليم رفع ميزانية المدارس، وتحويل جزء من مخصصات ميزانيات المكاتب والإدارات التعليمية التي تم إغلاقها مؤخراً إلى المدارس؛ لتعظيم الأثر التعليمي والتربوي نحو المزيد من الصرف على الأنشطة والفعاليات التي تحقق عنصر الجاذبية للبيئة المدرسية، وتحديداً بعد أن فقدت الكثير من خصائص تلك الجاذبية، ولعل ظاهرة الغياب الجماعي للطلبة أحد أهم الآثار السلبية في ذلك.
اليوم مع إيماننا العميق بسلامة توجهات وزارة التعليم نحو البيئة المدرسية، وأهميتها في هذه المرحلة، إلّا أن متطلبات ذلك يحتاج إلى توفير عناصر أساسية من السلامة، والأثاث، والنظافة، والتكييف، والملاعب، والمكاتب، والأنشطة، وغيرها، والهدف هو تقليل التباين الحاصل الآن بين بيئة تعليمية وأخرى، كما تتطلب هذه البيئة أيضاً التطوير المستمر للمعلم، وتقويم نواتجه، والاحتكام إليها في تقارير الأداء، وخصوصاً مع الدور الكبير الذي تؤديه اليوم هيئة تقويم التعليم والتدريب في هذا التوقيت مع وزارة التعليم.
وجود تلك المتطلبات مهم في موضوع الجاذبية للبيئة المدرسية، ولكن هناك أيضاً الأفكار التطويرية للأنشطة والفعاليات التي تقام داخل المدرسة، والتي لا تقل أهمية عن غيرها من المتطلبات الأخرى التي تحقق الهدف الإستراتيجي من تلك التوجهات، وهو أن يذهب الطالب إلى المدرسة ولديه الرغبة والحماس للحضور والتفاعل والمشاركة.
إحدى هذه الأفكار المهمة هو تأسيس نادٍ إعلامي في كل مدرسة، حيث أثبتت الدراسات والممارسات أن طلبة المدارس يمثلون اليوم في غالبيته جيل (ألفا) الذي نشأ على الإنترنت، وهو أول جيل رقمي ترعرع في بيئة تهيمن عليها الهواتف الذكية، والأجهزة اللوحية، وهذا الجيل لديه القدرة الفائقة على استخدام الألعاب كوسيلة للتعبير عن أنفسهم وتعزيز إبداعهم بشكل أكبر، كما أن لديهم الرغبة في التواصل والمشاركة كوسيلة للتعلّم واكتساب المهارات، إضافة إلى أن هذا الجيل الرقمي مختلف تماماً في أولوياته واهتماماته، ونظرته لمن حوله؛ فضلاً عن الحياة والمستقبل.
وجود نادٍ إعلامي في المدرسة لا يقلل من التوجهات الحالية لدى وزارة التعليم بتخصيص أيقونات الألعاب والترفيه ضمن «منصة مدرستي»، ولكن هذا النادي تنبع فكرته في محاكاة التجربة التي يقضيها الطالب في منزله أثناء تعامله مع المواقع والتطبيقات وشبكات التواصل الاجتماعي، حيث يمارس نشاطه الاتصالي، ويصنع المحتوى، ويشارك فيه، والأهم أن يكون هناك توعية وتثقيف داخل النادي في التعامل مع المنصات الرقمية، وتعزيز مصفوفة القيم الوطنية والتربوية من خلال تلك الممارسات، والكشف عن سلبيات تلك المنصات والتحذير منها، وخصوصاً مع تقنيات الذكاء الاصطناعي، وظاهرة التزييف العميق في المحتوى المنشور، والحد من ظاهرة شغف هذا الجيل في الشهرة، والبحث عن الإثارة.
تخيّل تخصيص فصل دراسي في المدرسة ليكون نادياً إعلامياً، ويتكون من شاشة عرض، وأجهزة ذكية، ويحضر الطلبة، ويقدمون محتوى في المنصات، ويحصلون على التوعية والتثقيف والتوجيه من معلميهم، وتزداد ثقتهم بأنفسهم، وتنمية قدراتهم في التعامل مع المحتوى السلبي، وتعزيز واجبهم في الدفاع عن وطنهم والاعتزاز بالانتماء إليه.
تخيّل كل ذلك في مشاركة جماعية تواصلية بين الطلبة في المدرسة، ويقف معهم معلموهم؛ فالنتائج الأولية أن يظهر لنا جيل رقمي محصّن بالقيم، والتعبير عن هويته الوطنية، وقادر أن يدرك منذ الصغر كيف يتعامل مع منصات التواصل الرقمي، والأهم أن المدرسة أصبحت جاذبة لممارسة ما يحبه؛ ليجد نفسه شغوفاً بما سيقدمه من إمكانات وتنافسية مع زملائه في هذا النادي.
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The current strategic directions of the Ministry of Education are to make the school the cornerstone of the student's educational journey, the environment relied upon to achieve better learning outcomes, and the center of educational work in thought, values, and behavior. Additionally, the school should be a launchpad for life and the future, a nurturing ground for talents, an important source in shaping relationships, a criterion for handling situations, and a means of acquiring experiences and skills.
With these directions in mind, the Ministry of Education intends to increase the school budgets and transfer part of the allocations from the budgets of the offices and educational administrations that were recently closed to the schools. This aims to maximize the educational and pedagogical impact towards more spending on activities and events that enhance the attractiveness of the school environment, especially after it has lost many of those attractive characteristics. The phenomenon of collective student absenteeism is perhaps one of the most significant negative effects of this.
Today, while we deeply believe in the validity of the Ministry of Education's directions towards the school environment and its importance at this stage, the requirements for this need to provide essential elements of safety, furniture, cleanliness, air conditioning, playgrounds, offices, activities, and others. The goal is to reduce the current disparity between one educational environment and another. This environment also requires continuous development for the teacher, evaluation of their outcomes, and reliance on them in performance reports, especially with the significant role that the Education and Training Evaluation Commission plays today in collaboration with the Ministry of Education.
Having these requirements is important in terms of the attractiveness of the school environment, but there are also developmental ideas for the activities and events held within the school, which are no less important than other requirements that achieve the strategic goal of these directions: that the student goes to school with the desire and enthusiasm to attend, interact, and participate.
One of these important ideas is to establish a media club in every school, as studies and practices have shown that school students today largely represent Generation Alpha, which has grown up on the internet. This is the first digital generation that has thrived in an environment dominated by smartphones and tablets. This generation has an extraordinary ability to use games as a means of self-expression and to enhance their creativity. They also have a desire to communicate and participate as a way to learn and acquire skills. Additionally, this digital generation is completely different in its priorities and interests, as well as its perspective on those around it, not to mention life and the future.
Having a media club in the school does not diminish the current directions of the Ministry of Education to allocate icons for games and entertainment within the "My School Platform." However, the idea of this club stems from simulating the experience that the student has at home while interacting with websites, applications, and social media networks, where they engage in communication activities, create content, and participate in it. Most importantly, there should be awareness and education within the club regarding dealing with digital platforms, enhancing the matrix of national and educational values through these practices, revealing the negatives of those platforms, and warning against them, especially with artificial intelligence technologies and the phenomenon of deepfakes in published content, as well as curbing this generation's obsession with fame and the search for excitement.
Imagine dedicating a classroom in the school to be a media club, equipped with a display screen and smart devices, where students attend and present content on platforms, receiving awareness, education, and guidance from their teachers. Their self-confidence increases, and their abilities to deal with negative content are developed, reinforcing their duty to defend their homeland and take pride in belonging to it.
Imagine all of this in a collective communicative participation among students in the school, with their teachers standing alongside them. The initial results would show us a digital generation fortified with values, expressing its national identity, and capable of understanding from a young age how to deal with digital communication platforms. Most importantly, the school has become attractive for practicing what they love, allowing them to find themselves passionate about what they will offer in terms of capabilities and competitiveness with their peers in this club.
With these directions in mind, the Ministry of Education intends to increase the school budgets and transfer part of the allocations from the budgets of the offices and educational administrations that were recently closed to the schools. This aims to maximize the educational and pedagogical impact towards more spending on activities and events that enhance the attractiveness of the school environment, especially after it has lost many of those attractive characteristics. The phenomenon of collective student absenteeism is perhaps one of the most significant negative effects of this.
Today, while we deeply believe in the validity of the Ministry of Education's directions towards the school environment and its importance at this stage, the requirements for this need to provide essential elements of safety, furniture, cleanliness, air conditioning, playgrounds, offices, activities, and others. The goal is to reduce the current disparity between one educational environment and another. This environment also requires continuous development for the teacher, evaluation of their outcomes, and reliance on them in performance reports, especially with the significant role that the Education and Training Evaluation Commission plays today in collaboration with the Ministry of Education.
Having these requirements is important in terms of the attractiveness of the school environment, but there are also developmental ideas for the activities and events held within the school, which are no less important than other requirements that achieve the strategic goal of these directions: that the student goes to school with the desire and enthusiasm to attend, interact, and participate.
One of these important ideas is to establish a media club in every school, as studies and practices have shown that school students today largely represent Generation Alpha, which has grown up on the internet. This is the first digital generation that has thrived in an environment dominated by smartphones and tablets. This generation has an extraordinary ability to use games as a means of self-expression and to enhance their creativity. They also have a desire to communicate and participate as a way to learn and acquire skills. Additionally, this digital generation is completely different in its priorities and interests, as well as its perspective on those around it, not to mention life and the future.
Having a media club in the school does not diminish the current directions of the Ministry of Education to allocate icons for games and entertainment within the "My School Platform." However, the idea of this club stems from simulating the experience that the student has at home while interacting with websites, applications, and social media networks, where they engage in communication activities, create content, and participate in it. Most importantly, there should be awareness and education within the club regarding dealing with digital platforms, enhancing the matrix of national and educational values through these practices, revealing the negatives of those platforms, and warning against them, especially with artificial intelligence technologies and the phenomenon of deepfakes in published content, as well as curbing this generation's obsession with fame and the search for excitement.
Imagine dedicating a classroom in the school to be a media club, equipped with a display screen and smart devices, where students attend and present content on platforms, receiving awareness, education, and guidance from their teachers. Their self-confidence increases, and their abilities to deal with negative content are developed, reinforcing their duty to defend their homeland and take pride in belonging to it.
Imagine all of this in a collective communicative participation among students in the school, with their teachers standing alongside them. The initial results would show us a digital generation fortified with values, expressing its national identity, and capable of understanding from a young age how to deal with digital communication platforms. Most importantly, the school has become attractive for practicing what they love, allowing them to find themselves passionate about what they will offer in terms of capabilities and competitiveness with their peers in this club.


