21st century work skills and society
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A talk on how education is shaped by the society it is in and a look at the type of skills and education needed in the 21st century as the second industrial revolution crushes all in it's path towards the Singularity
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- 1. “THE ILLITERATE OF THE 21ST CENTURY WILL NOT BE THOSE WHO CANNOT READ AND WRITE, BUT THOSE WHO CANNOT LEARN, UNLEARN, AND RELEARN”A L V I N T O F F L E R , F U T U R E S H O C K Richard Adams @dickyadams
- 2. THIS IS ABOUT ARTICULATING A PROBLEM NOT DESCRIBING A SOLUTION* Teaching/LEA National Curriculum Vocational Higher ED Externalling College founding Outreach *Although I DO have some ideas about that…. Artist Coder Producer Strategist Digital Architect Educator
- 3. HISTORY 101 – PRE INDUSTRIAL Education Middle Ages, schools were established to teach Latin grammar for clerical reasons – hence the name; Uni’s were founded Public schools were then established but were open to all if they could afford it. Concept of Universal education (Standardised) appeared Society Rule of the church Feudal/Baronial – serfdom and farm hands Renaissance/Reformation - Apprenticeship was the main way to enter practical occupations – mastering the new skills - were standardised in the Elizabethan Statute of Artificers in 1562
- 4. HISTORY 102 - INDUSTRIALIZATION Education New types of schools - Sunday schools - religious instruction Schools of industry – training for machinery Monitorial schools – mass education techniques, rote etc. Infant schools – play and fun for parents who had to work Elementary schools – grade schools Technical education Prep Schools Special needs Society Industrialization and urbanization - hostility to mass education Parochial Schools Bill of 1807 was debated in the Commons, Tory MP Davies Giddy warned the House that: “giving education to the labouring classes of the poor, it would, in effect, be found to be prejudicial to their morals and happiness; it would teach them to despise their lot in life, instead of making them good servants in agriculture and other laborious employments to which their rank in society had destined them” http://www.educationengland.org.uk/history/chapter02.html#01
- 5. HISTORY 103 – MASS PRODUCTION Education Education becomes politicized – many acts Teaching becomes professionalised - Teacher training Centralised service Longer school life Comprehensive education – Grammar Schools didn’t expand Disappearance of in work training Society Mass Production and the Middle Classes World Wars Great Depressions Triumph of nationalism Great ideologies End of the machine age Start of the age of computers and connectivity
- 6. Church Industry Big State Centralization/ Decentralization EDUCATION SYSTEM REFLECTS SOCIETY
- 7. Death of the machine age – Birth of the computer age SO WHAT IS OUR SOCIETY? Death of the machine age – Birth of the computer age Computing and connectivity are disrupting the role of the organs of state Globalization the rise of big corporations and the fall of trade walls are creating a new economy
- 9. COMPLEXITY
- 11. THE NEW WORK ENVIRONMENT 50+ years Job instability Economic instability Lack of consensus Rapid skills change Automation, first manual jobs and now professional jobs Constant contracting Globalization/ migration Democratic tech and connectivity
- 12. RE EMERGENCE OF THE ARTISAN EMERGENCE OF THE ARTISAN TECHNOLOGIST PORTFOLIO CAREER RE EMERGENCE OF THE ARTISAN
- 13. SKILLS What they need Broad and deep core education Ability to search, verify and filter Most kids are creative Presentation Pitching Working with people Ability to think laterally Mindset of constant enquiry Mentoring and Guidance What they DON’t need Rigid programmes Mass skills Exams that ‘finish’ learning Teachers
- 14. WHEN I WANT TO FIND SOMETHING OUT I SEARCH
- 15. TO PROGRAM OR NOT TO PROGRAM Do kids need to learn programming or programming principle expressed through multiple languages? Do they need to learn how something works or how the components work and function together?
- 16. PERSONALISATION Personal isation Philosophy CreativityLogic Practice Non-stop Of Work Of Life Of Education
- 17. WHAT WOULD THAT PERSONALISATION LOOK LIKE? *OTHER COFFEE CHAINS ARE AVAILABLE