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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 of the world's leading companies what they thought the most important job skills would be in 2020.
Their number one response? Complex problem solving. Other skills on their top ten list included critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and emotional intelligence.
Countries Are Best At Preparing Kids For The Future
Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Estonia among top 10 PISA report (Programme for International Student Assessment), which assesses how 15-year-olds in OECD countries are performing in science, mathematics and reading, has revealed the countries in which children are best at “collaborative problem-solving”.
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Such skills are likely to be best acquired at an early age and the PISA analysis shows that some education systems are taking steps in the right direction.
Finland has already moved to a model where collaboration is part of the regular curriculum and France is eyeing similar moves as it shakes up its education system in an effort to boost economically deprived children.
Nine Skills Children Need For Their Future
According to leading futurist John B. Mahaffie looks at the personal and learning skills that will make our children successful in the future.
Preparing for uncertainty raises the question up from the specific to the more general, from workplace skills we can define today to skills that prepare a child for an uncertain range of possible futures and for steady change. What are those things?
1. Love of Learning
With no certainty about the skills and knowledge we will need. A desire to learn will give an individual greater success. That comes from experiences as a child in which learning is challenging, interesting, rewarding, and fun, and sometimes includes what the child wants to learn.
2. Skill at learning
Learning to learn is a teachable skill and should be at the core of the school curriculum. This includes iterative efforts at instilling and advancing learning skills, and giving students the chance to reflect and learn about how they learn best.
3. Self-knowledge
Self-knowledge is thus a central skill. A critical part of it is humility, but another is self-confidence. The self-aware child will grow to be someone who can and wants to talk to all sorts of people. To listen well and to continue to learn.
4. People sense
Children may be naturally self-focused and thus in practice, selfish. There is a way out. We can work with them to understand the situations others are in, the points of view that other people have. The child who develops people sense will be a strong collaborator.
5. Communication
Communication includes spoken, written, and increasingly, visual communication, and will be fundamental to most kinds of work. This is strengthened by people sense, and in turn improves and strengthens skill at collaboration.
6. Worldliness
Not all education happens in school. Consider the advantages of the child who has been to the capital city and has seen what's there compared with the child who has never left the village. Or, to be fair, also the child who lives in the city and has never seen a farm or village.
7. Comfort with complexity
The world is not driven by simple cause and effect and big questions are not black or white. Our world is full of subtlety and complexity. Examining it and understanding it that way is essential for success in work and in life.
8. Goal setting
Successful people learn how to set goals and meet them. For the employer, this means they are productive. For the individual, this can mean personal success and advancement.
9. Open minds
No success is possible if we don’t raise children to become adaptable, thoughtful, open-minded adults. Theirs will be a world of constant challenge and change, and being strong and prepared means being able to change.
The following 10 skills are most vital to young people entering the workforce:
Ambition
Value
Articulation
Skills
Expertise
Terminology
Curiosity
Context
Experience
Resourcefulness
REFERENCE:
1. World Economic Forum
2. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca
3. http://www.wise-qatar.org
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