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Preparing Kid For The Jobs Of The Future

PHOTO BY: http://kidoovation.com Yesterday's classroom won't prepare our kids for tomorrow's job market.It's time to rethink education, teaching the lessons they'll need for careers we can only imagine. With the accelerating pace of social and technological change, the World Economic Forum estimates that 65 per cent of children today will end up in careers that don't even exist yet. The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report 2016 argued that by 2020: “Creativity will become one of the top three skills workers will need.  With the upcoming of new products, new technologies and new ways of working, employees are going to have to become more creative in order to benefit from these changes.” Social abilities like networking, communication, negotiation, team-building and problem-solving a skills the children of today will need to develop to keep their jobs safe from automation. But recently, the World Economic Forum asked executives from some o