The document discusses future work skills for 2020 and beyond. It identifies 6 drivers that will shape the future of work as increased lifespans, workplace automation, new media, increased data/sensors, social technologies, and increased globalization. It then outlines 10 skills that will be important in this future environment: sense-making, social intelligence, novel/adaptive thinking, cross-cultural communication, computational thinking, new media literacy, transdisciplinarity, design mindset, cognitive load management, and virtual collaboration. The document concludes by noting implications for schools.

1. Future Work Skills 2020
Another reason to re-think learning
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2. interconnected skills
6 Drivers
10 Skills
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3. Increasing global lifespans change the nature of careers and learning
extreme longevity
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4. Workplace automation nudges human workers out of rote, repetitive tasks
rise of smart machines and systems
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5. new media ecology
New communication tools require new media literacies beyond text
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6. Massive increases in sensors and processing power make the world a programmable system
computational world
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7. Social technologies drive new forms of production and value creation
structured organisations
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8. Increased global interconnectivity puts diversity and adaptability at the centre of organisational operations
globally connected world
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9. 10 skills
extreme longevity computational world
rise of smart machines Super-structured organisations
new media ecology globally connected world
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10. 1. sense making
Ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance
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11. Ability to connect to others in deep and direct way, and sense reactions and direct interactions
2. social intelligence
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12. Proficiency at thinking and coming up with solutions and responses beyond the rote and rule-based
3. novel and adaptive thinking
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13. 4. cross cultural communications
Ability to operate in different cultural settings
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14. Ability to translate vast amounts of data into abstract concepts to understand data-based reasoning
5. Computational Thinking
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15. Ability to critically assess and develop content that uses new media forms and leverage existing for persuasive communication
6. New Media Literacy
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16. 7. Transdisciplinary
Understand concepts across multiple disciplines
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17. Ability to represent and develop tasks and work processes for desired outcomes
8. Design Mindset
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18. Ability to discriminate and filter information for importance and to maximise cognitive functioning using a variety of tools
9. cognitive load management
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19. Ability to work productively, drive engagement and demonstrate presence as a member of a virtual team
10. virtual collaboration
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20. implications for schools
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21. Future Work Skills 2020
Another reason to re-think learning
University of Phoenix, Arizona