Essential Articles for Educators
These articles for educators are designed so that we can recognise trends in how work, life and opportunity are evolving and accelerating, and serve to highlight why schools need to evolve as well. We’ve used a multitude of sources to investigate the global economy, the future of work, skills shortages, growth industries, exponential technologies, disruptive innovations and how all of this affects learning in schools. The articles for educators provide a series of insights into where opportunities lie for students, the knowledge skills and attitudes that students might need, which industries and jobs they might consider studying or working in, and how we all can benefit from the enormous opportunities that exist.
Exponential technology crash course
AI is already everywhere, and we’ve written about it before. AI decides what we see on Youtube, Netflix and social media. Amazon’s supply chain can’t run without it, and we…
School Self-assessment that Achieves Excellence
Self-assessment is the first, essential step that people with an interest in the success and well-being of a school take when they seek to integrate continuous improvement into its culture. What…
Disruption of work – what students need to know
This week we are looking at work and jobs disruption and potential opportunities, what students need to know and how they can learn for the future.
Work is changing – does it matter?
It’s not possible to accurately predict the future, of course. However it is possible to get a sense of how things are likely to change over the coming 10 to…
Challenges and opportunities in education
This week we are taking a look at some articles we’ve come across recently in the world of education and schools. It’s a general look at what’s happening out there,…
Redesigning learning – why it’s hard
This week’s article looks at learning and some of the factors that may prove to be significant in how it evolves in schools over the coming decades.
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