I have to admit I was glad that last week was only a three day week.
As promised I want to use this weeks Food For Thought to further develop our thinking about the skills that we need to be embedding in our teaching and curriculum so that we are truly a school preparing our students for the future not the past. I believe that we need to readjust the focus of our teaching and curricular to truly reflect the explicit preparations of students for a world dominated by artificial intelligence. Wherever you turn these days there is more and more evidence that this world is not future science fiction it is already upon us. We already have driver less cars and trucks, robot run resource centers and libraries and of course increasingly smart appliances for our homes.
So we need to be thinking about which are the skills that we need to build into an ISHCMC education. Of course we can start with the the IB's AtL skills.
This was further developed and expanded by Suzanne and Billy in their workshop at the 3E conference which I am sure they will not mind me sharing with you here. This adaptation of the AtL's breaks them down into groups and provides details about each one. It is very useful for all of us as AtL's are supposed to be embedded and scope and sequenced across all of our IB programmes.
These three short video extracts should also encourage skills thinking beyond the IB with a focus on future skills. Apologies if the quality of the video is not good but Blogger only allows 10 MB and although short these clips exceeded that limit. The first is Tony Wagner, from Harvard who wrote the book, Most Likely to Succeed and produced the documentary of the same title.
The second extract is taken from Seth Godin's talk Stop Stealing Dreams. The first video is the extract but if you are interested I have included the entire video in case you have not watched it. Seth Godin is asking the question, What is School for? and hence challenging the skills that school's should be giving students.
The discussion about valuing skills and talents would not be complete without an extract from Sir Ken Robinson. We have heard his words for years now about creativity but when one looks at the on coming age of AI the place for creative people becomes ever more important. There may well be machines that can learn, solve problems and are more intelligent that humans but will they be able to entertain us. we are on the edge of the 4th Technological Revolution. If we go back to the numbers 2 and three will will note that both increased leisure time and our propensity to enjoy music and other creative activities. The 4th Revolution will certainly transform the world of work, provide ecah and everyone in society with more time and consequently provide the opportunity for those who can entertain and provide recreational activities to excel.
Finally I would like to share this info graphic to add to your thinking about skills and what shape our curricular should be taking.
Here is an additional link that has just been sent to me about Jobs of the Future from Big Think , it is short and the last minute further reinforces the sorts of skill we need to be prioritizing.
There is so much to be thinking about in education today...it is so exciting.
Have a wonderful afternoon,
Yours
Adrian
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