21st century work skills and society

“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

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

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

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

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

Church Industry Big State Centralization/ Decentralization

EDUCATION SYSTEM REFLECTS SOCIETY

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

http://avalaunchmedia.com

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COMPLEXITY

CERTAINTY >>> UNCERTAINTY

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

RE EMERGENCE OF THE ARTISAN

EMERGENCE OF THE ARTISAN TECHNOLOGIST

PORTFOLIO CAREER

RE EMERGENCE OF THE ARTISAN

SKILLSWhat 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

WHEN I WANT TO FIND SOMETHING OUT I SEARCH

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?

PERSONALISATIONPersonal

isation

Philosophy

CreativityLogic

Practice

Non-stop Of Work

Of Life

Of Education

WHAT WOULD THAT PERSONALISATION LOOK LIKE?

*OTHER COFFEE CHAINS ARE AVAILABLE

THANKS YOU - QUESTIONS?

@dickyadams