Sprint 1 - Future Education
What is education for? Valerie Hanon
Every culture and every society has a story to tell. It is often a means of remembering our history and a way of helping to ensure we learn from our mistakes. We have the opportunity to create the story we want to see, hear and feel. The stories we want our children to focus on as we learn from out past and take charge of our future. |
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My Reflections ...
Valerie Hannon cautious us with a publication from Klaus Schwab, where he clearly brings to our attention the need to be aware.
“The resulting shifts and disruptions mean that we live in a time of great promise and great peril. The world has the potential to connect billions more people to digital networks, dramatically improve the efficiency of organizations and even manage assets in ways that can help regenerate the natural environment, potentially undoing the damage of previous industrial revolutions.” - ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution, by Klaus Schwab.'
We are at the beginning of a 'revolution' that is fundamentally changing the way we live, work and relate to one another. As the above quote mentions and is explored further in the book in ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution, by Klaus Schwab.' The future is in our hands and we are living in a world where we have the opportunity of promise and peril. These have been summarised below.
“The resulting shifts and disruptions mean that we live in a time of great promise and great peril. The world has the potential to connect billions more people to digital networks, dramatically improve the efficiency of organizations and even manage assets in ways that can help regenerate the natural environment, potentially undoing the damage of previous industrial revolutions.” - ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution, by Klaus Schwab.'
We are at the beginning of a 'revolution' that is fundamentally changing the way we live, work and relate to one another. As the above quote mentions and is explored further in the book in ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution, by Klaus Schwab.' The future is in our hands and we are living in a world where we have the opportunity of promise and peril. These have been summarised below.
Promise
We have the potential to:
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Peril
If we do not plan strategically:
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“... together we need to shape a future that works for all by putting people first, empowering them and constantly reminding ourselves that all of these new technologies are first and foremost tools made by people for people.”
Thriving in a Transforming world
Tipping point
1. Planet
2. Apotheosis of technology
3. Human evolution
Thriving at four levels - Everything is connected
What is it to thrive at all levels - in particular what is it to thrive in education?
Planetary Level
For our planet to thrive globally our learning goals need to address these directly:
Societal / community level
We are social beings therefore it is critical for a peaceful planet that we understand, accept, appreciate and embrace diversity. Immigration is contributing to a shift in our global demographics, our practices need to reflect this.
For our society to thrive globally our learning goals need to address these directly:
Inter personal - relationships - human to human
Intra personal - sense of self - identity,
The changes are so profound that from the perspective of human history there has never been a time of greater promise of potential peril.
"Our job is not to prepare our students for something
Our job is to help our students prepare for anything" - John Spencer.
Do we want the outcome of our education system to mind full or mindful.
Tipping point
1. Planet
- 6th extinction:
- Caused by human - upto 50 % species threatened with extinction
- Ensuring biodiversity is a moral imperative
- Anthropocene age: viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.
- The structure of our planet is being changed by the actions of humans, changing the nature and structure of our planet
- Climate change:
- Treaty that was agreed on is now being ignored and we stand in huge peril
2. Apotheosis of technology
- Job disruption by Robotics
- 30 % of all jobs will be impacted by mid 20-30s
- 44% of workers with low education skills will be at risk by automation by the mid 20-30’s
- We need to start to see employment differently; distributed differently.
- Do we leave it by chance or get ahead and plan strategically how to manage this
- Artificial Intelligence
- Impact on humanity and relationships.
- Evolution in our own hands - natural selection being replaced by genetic engineering, human enhancement and artificial intelligence.
- Global connectivity
- Big data and big mind
3. Human evolution
Thriving at four levels - Everything is connected
- Planetary level
- Societal / community level
- Inter personal - relationships - human to human
- Intra personal - you yourself alone as an individual
What is it to thrive at all levels - in particular what is it to thrive in education?
Planetary Level
For our planet to thrive globally our learning goals need to address these directly:
- Learning how to live sustainably. It is essential that our learning intentions are intentional.
- Learning how to protect the earth, eco-system by understanding our impact on our planet. Getting back to the woods, experiencing and appreciating nature, connecting and caring about the interconnectivity we have with each other. ‘Last Child in the Woods’ - Richard Louv (nature-deficit disorder)
Societal / community level
We are social beings therefore it is critical for a peaceful planet that we understand, accept, appreciate and embrace diversity. Immigration is contributing to a shift in our global demographics, our practices need to reflect this.
For our society to thrive globally our learning goals need to address these directly:
- Learn and acquire global competence.
- Navigate a disruptive and uncertain landscape of work / education
- Learn - relearn - and love learning skills
- Reinvent a participative, authentic, meaningful democracy - The spirit level - Richard Wilkinson
- Societies that do well on the scale of Thrive are not the richest, instead they are the societies that distribute resources equitably.
- Through democracy we are able to achieve equity, therefore schools are needing to create opportunities for children to learn about and through being democratic in ways that support children to be proactive, participators, in purposeful and meaningful authentic teaching and learning experiences.
- Learning to Know - Learning to Do - Learning to Be - Learning to Live.
Inter personal - relationships - human to human
- The most important aspect to Thrive is relationships - children need to learn how to make and keep relationships.
- At the heart of great relationships is empathy - learning to interact and be with people. We grow empathy by being with other people - creating and managing relationships with other people.
- Purposefully teaching and building caring and respectful relationships.
Intra personal - sense of self - identity,
- Knowing yourself
- Being yourself
- Seeing yourself
- Developing a sense of purpose and self worth
The changes are so profound that from the perspective of human history there has never been a time of greater promise of potential peril.
"Our job is not to prepare our students for something
Our job is to help our students prepare for anything" - John Spencer.
Do we want the outcome of our education system to mind full or mindful.
16 October 2018