Getting Unstuck #131: Asking "How can I best support my students?"
In this episode of Getting Unstuck
Jaime Casap is the former Education Evangelist at Google. In that role, he collaborated with school systems, educational organizations, and leaders focused on building innovation and iteration into our education policies and practices. Today, he speaks on and authors content on education, technology, and innovation. He is an adjunct teacher at both the high school and university levels.
The Essential Point
Our current educational system is doing exactly what it was designed to do. What I think what we should do is design an education system for the future that we face, which is different. Every generational economy has been different from the one before it: farming to the industrial revolution to the knowledge base worker and now the digitalized economy. And so what we need to do in education is ask ourselves, “What are the skills that our students need in this new world?” The skills that our students need are actually human skills: problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, the ability to learn creativity. And yet, because it's still doing what it was designed to do, our current education system is largely teaching students things that machine already do.
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Learn Stuff Computers Can’t Do by Tom Vander Ark
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