Name: Geraldine Villaver

Subject: EM4006

Schedule: 3:00- 6:00 PM

Reaction Paper #4

Industry 4.0 refers to the fourth industrial revolution. It calls for a dynamic
transformation of how all aspects of business and production are done. A new wave of global
technology will change global production. In the fourth industrial revolution we can see that it
when it comes to the production of products most of the things are being mass produce and
the jobs are done mostly automated. What does this tell us? It tells us that in the near future
jobs that are routinely done and can be possibility be automated will be gone. This pushes
schools to find new ways if not overhaul the ways of how to prepare students, the future
generation become a valued asset of the society.

Industry 4.0 has affected schools in these times of pandemic greatly but not necessarily
in a bad way. Why do I say so? Because there has been an on going drive to teach students skills
on how to do a task instead of just memorizing and repeating a task Industry 4.0 has given
schools and its students a head start against the difficulties that the pandemic brings around
education. Schools has begun to rapidly change the why they deliver education and in turn the
students become more creative in finding ways to fulfill the task that requires them to learn the
skill for them to grow. The problem in the future could not be the lack of employment, but the
shortage of skills that the new jobs will demand. That is why schools are pushing and are
developing new ways to teach their students so that these students will understand how they
can correlate and use and apply different knowledge in diversified contexts, what they really
mean and how they can create synergies among different subjects to develop/create
“something” that connects to the real world.