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A talk on how education is shaped by the society it is in and a look at the type of skills and education needed in the 21st century as the second industrial revolution crushes all in it's path towards the Singularity
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“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
/infographics/timeline-of-m
arketing-channels-graphic
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