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#lWith rapidly evolving business needs, technological advances and new work structures, the skills that will be needed in the future are shifting. In response to these changes, policymakers, educators and experts around the world are rethinking their education systems.
During Education on Air a panel of education experts participated in a discussion aimed at understanding how to best adapt education systems to the skills needs of the future:
- Ken Shelton, Educator, Trainer & Google Certified Teacher, USA
- Jaime Casap, Global Education Evangelist, Google, USA
- Jouni Kangasniemi, Special Adviser to the Ministry of Education & Culture, Finland
- Nicole, a secondary student from Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy, UK
- Zoe Tabary, Editor, Economist Intelligence Unit, UK
The panel considered how to best help students learn and adopt the skills and attitudes that employers in the increasingly digital and networked economy require.
According to the EIU's research report, sponsored by Google for Education and presented by EIU editor Zoe Tabary during Education on Air, problem-solving, teamwork and communication are the most needed skills in the workplace.
Via Beth Dichter, Mark E. Deschaine, PhD, Edumorfosis
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Preparing our students with the necessary skills for post-secondary career and college is critical, but especially for our poverty students. Too often, school is the only venue to provide these thinking, collaboration, and problem solving skills. However, many poverty schools under the pressure of standardized testing are stuck in a remediation routine of filling gaps in content, reading, and math. We must provide time for teachers to collaborate and plan integrated lessons that integrate these higher level thinking skills into their content areas.
What skills do learners need today to be prepared to be a leader as they move through school and into careers? Google commissioned a study and this post provides a short video that discusses key findings as well as a link to the final report, Driving the Skills Agenda: Preparing Students for the Future.
The Executive Summary provides a number of key findings, including the ones listed below. (The text below is quoted from the report.)
* Problem solving, team working and communication are the skills that are currently most in demand in the workplace.
* Education systems are not providing enough of the skills that students and the workplace need.
* Some students are taking it into their own hands to make up for deficiencies within the education system.
* Technology is changing teaching, but education systems are keeping up with the transformation rather than leading it.
The full report provides additional information, including a number of visuals as well as case studies. As educators it is important that we consider the skills our learners will need in the future, and this report provides insight into some of what will be needed.