Archives For Education
During last summer’s Exponential Youth Camp (XYC) pilot at Singularity University 14 of the world’s brightest teenagers were asked to redesign the future of education. They recommended:
- Make it about ME – Personalization is necessary to compete in today’s intricately specialized world.
- Let’s DO things – Across the board, the teens wanted opportunities to demonstrate knowledge through real-world application, not scantrons.
- Don’t ditch me in an online course – students simply desired guidance in navigating the material.
- Be my coach – Students still want great teachers.
- Teach me relevant skills – opportunities to build more practical skills like teamwork, problem solving and conflict resolution
- Foster a growth mindset – education should make people confident in their ability to learn anything.
I generally do not comment on infographics because I believe a good infographic needs no additional explanation. The reason I am adding this comment is that I need to make a connection between the most promising industries for the future and education. Many people prefer not to refer to education as a business but the data suggest that it is not only a business it is one that promises significant growth in the future.
Source: magazine.good.is/infographics/infographic-what-are-the-most-lucrative-industries
I have been trying to save the posting of exceptional videos for my Wednesday Watchlist but I just can’t wait with video.
1. Asking questions (Socrates 101)
2. Labeling technology and design challenges (Aristotle 101 )
3. Modelling problems qualitatively (Aristotle 102 or Hume 101)
4. Decomposing design problems (Descartes 101)
5. Gathering data (Galileo or Bacon 101)
6. Visualizing solutions and generating ideas (da Vinci 101 )
7. Communicating solutions in written and oral form (Newman 101)
By associating important figures in intellectual history with each of the seven thinking skills Goldberg points out that each of these problems have been already solved or addressed. He is also pointing out that our narrow form of contemporary education which emphasizes plugging numbers into a formula and the regurgitation of information not only which excludes these fundamental skills so well established in classical education but it is leaving our engineers, and I would argue so many other students, ill prepared to efficiently solve current problems.
Goldberg’s Slideshare presentation The missing basics: What engineers don’t learn and why they need to learn it is also worth checking out.
