Jobs of the Future

Saturday Sept. 27 Session V 11:30-12:30

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Sandra Hahn International School Bangkok

IntroIcebreaker

Show some researchShare unit of work

Show clips of students sharing their thinking

Reflect using VT routineWrap up

Questions

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Jobs of the Future

or…How the heck can we know

anyway?

When you were beginning high school, what jobs did you think might be available to you when you left?

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“We cannot imagine the jobs our students will have in the future.”

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The World they may enter…

“The Singularity is Near”-Ray Kurzweil

•Within 20 years human beings will cease to be as we know them as a result of the exponential growth of computers!

Get this…

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GNR- Gene therapy, nanotechnology, and robotics will turn us into beings that may never have to die!

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Knowledge, art, music will take on totally new meaning as we will be able to know and use knowledge whenever we wish and need!

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…and the jobs in their future?

Thomas Friedman:

•“There is no limit to the number of idea -generated jobs in the world”

•“We need to continue to …churn out knowledge workers who are able to produce idea-based goods that can be sold globally…”

•“Untouchables…are people whose jobs cannot be outsourced, digitized or automated.”

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Marc Andreessen-Netscape founder:

“…there are infinite industries to be created, infinite businesses to be started, and infinite jobs to be done, and the only limiting factor is human imagination.”

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Princeton economist Alan Binder:

“In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.”

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“We need to focus education on constantly developing our students’ right brain skills- such as forging relationships rather than executing transactions, tackling novel challenges instead of solving routine problems, and synthesizing the big picture rather than analysing a single component.”

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CQ (curiosity quotient) + PQ (passion quotient) > IQ!

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What are the implications for education as we now know it?

• “Students …. have to fundamentally reorient what they are learning…

• …and educators how they are teaching it.”

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Shari Tishman

“The Object of Their Attention”

Close examination of an everyday object leads to increasingly complex thinking

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Observe

What do I see?

What am I wondering?What am I personally curious about?

Wonder

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Connect(Synthesis)

How can this connect to my study? How can I use this as a lens as I work?

Challenge (Synthesis)

How can I create something unique to demonstrate my thinking?

How can I best communicate this to others?

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Multiple Entry Points

• Aesthetic

• Social

• Quantitative/Logical

• Narrative

• Philosophical

• Experiential

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It’s all about their observations…

how they’re communicating…

what they want to say…

…it’s level of complexity

…and their thinking!

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See

Think

Wonder

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How can this look?

• Written connection• Presentation - oral• Rubric for assessment

by all

A Museum (interactive)

So…what will the new

Jobs of the Future require?

• Knowledge• Ideas• Synthesise knowledge• Imagination • Create something totally new

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Where to now??

• Students with learning challenges• Multiple entry points• Multiple Intelligences• Other disciplines

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Challenge!

• Are you ‘up’ for prospective student learning?

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References & Inspiration!

• The Singularity is Near - Ray Kurzweil• The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman• When God Was A Woman – Merlin Stone• Mindset - C. S. Dweck • The Object of Their Attention (Article) - Shari Tishman

Project Zero, Harvard• Teaching For Understanding - Project Zero, Harvard• Multiple Intelligences-Howard Gardner Project Zero,

Harvard

email: sandrah@isb.ac.th

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Discussion

• What are you thinking now? • Could this be of some use to you? • If so how, and better still…why?

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