There have been a number of interesting topic cropping up from voices exploring the intersection between the future of work and the future of learning, so I have decided to start pulling what I see as the highlights together in a blog called posts of the month. The aim is to bring together some of the best things I have seen and share them with you.
1. Heather McGowan: STOP Asking What!
I came across Heather entirely by accident on LinkedIn; and when I did I was amazed. Heather is a visionary with a strategic background, who has used this skill set to research, decode and explain the implications of the emerging trend towards lifelong learning and what it means for how we relate to our own talents. This post, co-authored with another strategist, Chris Shipley calls for a change in mindset in terms of how we nurture talent in young people. Soon the idea of “being one thing when you grow up” will become obsolete, so we need to start asking our future better questions that help them think about what ‘meta skills’ they want to develop, and how they could use them in different ways. Bye bye fixed career identity; hello agile learning mindset.
2. Maciej Kuziemski: Democratising Artificial Intelligence
As AI becomes a technology that is set to revolutionise the way we live, possibly as much as was the case with the internet revolution, it’s essential that we examine the ethical implications early. We have an exciting opportunity – to use this new technological frontier to include and uplift the “bottom billion” of people in poverty accross the world, or to entrench inequality. This article explores what we can do now to make this development one that benefits as many of us as possible.
3. Dennis Frezzo: The role of technology in the education of the future
I’m a huge fan of the World Economic Forum’s content on the future of society; for those who are not already podcast addicts, I’d strongly recommend A Glimpse Into the Future. However this article on where technology and education meet does not disappoint either; Frezzo explores how the latest technologies can be immersed into the classroom environment, so young people can start to interact with them in the way that they’ll need to in future. This could involve young people trying to make their own products in class, participating in hackathons and other things instead of passively ingesting lectures. I have long been a fan of this approach and think that this is something that the creative industry should do more of with students as well.
Here are my top 3 for this month. Stand by for more in June.