2020 has been a pivotal year in higher education, teaching and learning a year in which the impossible became instantly possible. New practices, technologies, curriculum, pedagogues and engagement practices all hurriedly emerged. MicroTAFE’s were invented and in doing so teachers and support staff were all stretched to near breaking point. But they didn’t break, instead […]
The current education system, as great as it once might have been (and that’s debatable), is no longer up to the heavy lifting of tomorrow’s employment and life landscapes. It was custom-built for on an industrial revolution model of work and prepared students for a known world, where work and careers were set and teaching […]
The Future of Education is such an important topic if we are going to set our kids up to succeed in tomorrow’s world and workplace and I’m glad to see the media agrees. Here are some of the radio interviews I did on the back of this recent media release including an extended piece for […]
Today’s students will live to 120, have 6 careers and 14 jobs and work into their 90’s in industries that we haven’t even begun to imagine, doing tasks that we don’t yet know we need. With an education system built on rote learning, the 3 R’s and a set of entrenched structures all developed for […]
Education is in a hurricane of disruption. The industrial revolution education model that we’ve had for the last 100 years or so doesn’t work anymore and definitely won’t work in the near future. This is not because we don’t have great teachers, wonderful students, well-intentioned parents and a society that sees the value in education, […]
In a future world there may not be a retirement age, we may not all be working 9 -5 work, we may not have job descriptions and we will almost certainly not have culturally sanctioned employment certainty. In this new landscape of employment we will work project and task, work at any age, work wherever […]
