Charles Fadel “21st Century Knowledge, Skills, Character: A Clear and Present Imperative” by British Council

21st Century Knowledge, Skills, Character: A Clear and Present Imperative

Charles Fadel October 1, 2012 Charlesfadel (at) gmail (dot) com

Music exercise – Audio

“The dancing salesman problem”

Source: Simon Colton, The Painting Fool

Agenda World We Live In Impact of Technology Creativity & Innovation What should students learn ?

The New World We Live In

Globalization’s Perfect Storm Greed Financial Meltdown Global Warming

Intolerance Religious fundamentalism

The stakes have never been higher

Our New World

Volatile Uncertain Complex Ambiguous

The Impact of Technology

Non-digital displacement technologies

Offshoring Health Care

Impact of Technology • Autonomous vehicles •Telepresence • Telemedicine

Nonroutine Skill Radiologist Pathologist

Legal discovery Legal Opinion

Routine Skill

Surgeon

Court proceeding

Security video monitoring RoboGuard

Policeman

Typing clerk Bookkeeping

Taxi driver

Personal delivery

Google Autonomous Vehicle >300kmiles already, one minor accidents, occasional human intervention

“Computational Pathologist” “Computers found more accurate than doctors in breast-cancer diagnosis” Science Magazine November 10, 2011 “Computational Pathologist” by Stanford Schools of Engineering and Medicine

Even modeling

Even Pop Stars Video – Hatsune Miku

Displacement due to Technology Ox Harvester Horse Automobile Lab Mice Assays (not soon enough>) Humans: Scribes printing press Washers washing machine Cashiers/Attendants bar code scanner Healthcare/Finance/Services/Jeopardy champions Watson etc

Technology Acceleration Optical fiber bandwidth (bps) Doubling Time (months): 9 12

Performance per $ spent

18 Storage density (bits/sq-cm)

Si chip density (# of transistors/area)

5 (number of years)

More to come iPhone: $400 price point • 40T in 2015 • 40E in 2025

Video record your entire life (2025)

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Already possible in the Cloud !

On the road to ExoBrain

More to come5 3-D Printing “3-D Printing Spurs a Manufacturing Revolution” September 13, 2010

“It’s about going from the Model T to something like a Mini that has 10 million permutations.” Scott Summit, Bespoke Innovations:

More to come5 Things

More to come5 Robotics

High-speed manipulation - Video

Replace Workforce With Robots Terry Guo, CEO of Foxconn, said last July that the Taiwan-based manufacturing giant would add up to one million industrial robots to its assembly lines inside of three years.

More to come – Augmented Reality

More to come5 Virtual Reality

Brave New World Human Genome mapping (2005) “Technology today can do in five minutes a decoding task that would have taken a year to complete a decade ago” Eric Lander, Founder, The Broad Institute

Improvement by a factor of 1 million in ten years

More to come5 Nanomaterials

More to come5 Augmented Humans

A combinatorial explosion of possibilities

“The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.” Science-Fiction author William Gibson, quoted in The Economist, December 4, 2003

Creativity & Innovation

Music Decomposition

Computerized Trading – Flash Crash

Even Journalism ? “Computers will write more than 90 percent of news in 15 years, and will win a Pulitzer Prize within 5 years.” Kristian Hammond, CTO and cofounder of Narrative Science, a company that trains computers to write news stories.

Innovation follows patterns automatable

Source: Invention Machine “IM Labs”

So what do we teach for5 >in an era of ubiquitous Search and A.I. that help us with answers ? How about: • Wisdom • Ethics • Fluidity with Technology • Adaptability • Resilience • Curiosity • Asking the right questions • Synthesizing/integrating • Creating !

The Race between Technology and Education Inspired by “The race between technology and education” Pr. Goldin & Katz (Harvard)

Social pain

Prosperity

Education

Digital Revolution

Social pain Technology Industrial Revolution

What should students learn in the 21st century?

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Coalition of key global players International organizations

Jurisdictions

Academia

Foundations & Non-Profits

Redesigning all dimensions Character

Knowledge

Traditional vs. Modern Knowledge

Begging for Relevance

Impact vs Context Minoans, Sea People

Persian Wars Peloponnesian Wars

Ptolemaic Egypt

grade Sparta’s system

Homer

grade

Athens’ Democracy

Philosophers & Scientists

Example: Ancient Greece

Alexander the Great

grade

So5

What do we remove ?

Deep re-examination of every single discipline’s branches, topics, items>

What else is needed ? Psychology/Sociology/Anthropology ? Personal Finance/Economics ? Entrepreneurship ? Engineering ? Robotics ? Programming ? Recreational Maths in lower grades ? Linguistics ? Mythology ? Philosophy ? Ethics ? Journalism ? Woodworking ? Gardening ? 3D Printing ? Etc.

Rethinking Skills

Workforce Requirements Survey Knowledge

Skills

English Language (spoken)

Critical Thinking/Problem Solving

Reading comprehension (English)

Communications (oral & written)

Writing (English)

Collaboration/Teamwork

Mathematics

Diversity

Science

Information Technology Applications

Government/Economics

Leadership

Humanities/Arts

Lifelong Learning/Self-Direction

Foreign Languages

Professionalism/Work Ethic

History/Geography

Ethics/Social Responsibility

21st Century Skills Framework Learning & Innovation Skills • Creativity & Innovation • Critical Thinking & Problem Solving • Communication • Collaboration

Information, Media & Technology Skills • Information Literacy • Media Literacy • ICT (Information, Communications & Technology) Literacy

Practical book + DVD classroom examples “The authors have done nothing less than provide a bold framework for designing a 21st century approach to education, an approach aimed at preparing all of our children to successfully meet the challenges of this brave, new world.” Paul Reville, Secretary of Education, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; former director of the Education Policy and Management Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education “It’s about time that we have such an accessible and wise book about the 21st century skills that so many companies, policymakers, and educators are talking about” Roy Pea, Professor, Education and the Learning Sciences, Stanford University

The Role of “Character”

Divergence Between Technology & Culture

Per UNESCO “There is every reason to place renewed emphasis on the moral and cultural dimensions of education> this process must begin with self-understanding through> knowledge, meditation and the practice of selfcriticism.” Report from the International Commission on Education in the 21st Century, UNESCO 1996

Character means Performance character • One’s mastery and thrust for excellence in school, the workplace, and in other experiences: adaptability, resilience, curiosity, initiative, socialization, productivity, leadership

Moral character • Relational and ethical, how one treats others in interpersonal and social matters: ethics, justice, respect, courage, zest, care, awareness

Metacognition Interdisciplinarity Learning how to learn (understanding how You learn, and what processes you learn to use)

Self-directed Learning (ability to leverage Learning how to learn)

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