The document discusses the shortcomings of traditional education in preparing children for a future dominated by technology and artificial intelligence. It criticizes current teaching methods that stifle creativity and collaboration, arguing that these approaches render students redundant in an age where adaptability and social skills are essential. The text advocates for educational reforms that emphasize empathy, teamwork, and experiential learning to better equip students for the challenges of the 21st century.

1. March 3 2017 ctl.curtin.edu.au
Education and Uncertain Futures
Kim Flintoff
Learning Futures

2. Posthuman??
Augmentation
Algorithm
Information
Industrial
Agrarian
Hunting/Gathering
NOW 
Ages of Human Activity
PAST
FUTURE

3. “Change is not merely necessary to life —
it is life.”
“Technology feeds on itself. Technology
makes more technology possible.”
“The illiterate of the future will not be the
person who cannot read. It will be the
person who does not know how to learn.”
“Change is the only constant.”

12. In the future, if you want a job,
you must be as unlike a machine
as possible: creative, critical and
socially skilled. So why are
children being taught to behave
like machines?
George Monbiot
In an age of robots, schools are teaching our children to be redundant

13. Children learn best when
teaching aligns with their natural
exuberance, energy and curiosity.
So why are they dragooned into
rows and made to sit still while
they are stuffed with facts?
George Monbiot
In an age of robots, schools are teaching our children to be redundant

14. We succeed in adulthood through
collaboration. So why is
collaboration in tests and exams
called cheating?
George Monbiot
In an age of robots, schools are teaching our children to be redundant

15. Governments claim to want to
reduce the number of children
being excluded from school. So
why are their curriculums and
tests so narrow that they alienate
any child whose mind does not
work in a particular way? George Monbiot
In an age of robots, schools are teaching our children to be redundant

16. The best teachers use their
character, creativity and inspiration
to trigger children’s instinct to
learn. So why are character,
creativity and inspiration
suppressed by a stifling regime of
micromanagement? George Monbiot
In an age of robots, schools are teaching our children to be redundant

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22. Quest Games

23. Challenge based learning

24. Partnerships
K-12
Higher Education
Cultural
Institutions
Not for Profits
Industry
Government

25. Emphasise
capabilities
Shift expectations

26. New narratives for an unknown future
The Collective Journey Rises
The Collective Journey is a non-linear, multiplatform,
physical and digital experience and/or story of several
diverse people, groups, tribes, cultures, networks,
coming together for a higher purpose and a common
cause.
In their journeys, they move beyond their own individual
experiences to a cohesive collective that is both the sum
of all individuals and also a new entity entirely.

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Ashoka Changemaker schools treat
empathy as “a foundational
skill on a par with reading and math”, and
use it to develop the kind of open, fluid
collaboration that, they believe, will be the
21st century’s key skill.
George Monbiot
In an age of robots, schools are teaching our children to be redundant

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Mantle of the Expert
encourages them to form teams of inquiry, solving
an imaginary task – such as running a container
port, excavating a tomb or rescuing people from a
disaster – that cuts across traditional subject
boundaries.
George Monbiot
In an age of robots, schools are teaching our children to be redundant

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Quest to Learn, is based on the
way children teach themselves to play games. To
solve the complex tasks they’re given, they need to
acquire plenty of information and skills. They do it
with the excitement and tenacity of gamers.
George Monbiot
In an age of robots, schools are teaching our children to be redundant

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Approaches to Learning

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Future-focussed Learning

32. Future-focussed Learning
Newington College

33. Prioritising the interdependencies and personal responsibilities

35. Thank you
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