As the rate of technological innovation intensifies, the workforce of the future will need to adapt to new technology and new markets. The people who can adapt the best and fastest will win. This view means that any given set of skills will become obsolete quickly as innovations change the various economic sectors: precision agriculture, manufacturing 4.
Therefore, the challenge is not only to teach skills, but also how to adapt and learn new skills. Whether the traditional programs or new programs will be better at teaching adaptive learning remains to be seen.
Many ambitious federal and state programs have fizzled, to produce dismal to no statistical change in the caliber of K education. Online mediums and self-directed approaches may be limited in effectiveness with certain labor segments unless supplemented by human coaching and support systems. It is true that most online courses require self-direction. But in-person courses may also be self-directed.
This works well for some students but not others. Students who are self-directed often have had a very good foundational education and supportive parents.
They have been taught to think critically and they know that the most important thing you can learn is how to learn. And they are also are more likely to come from economic privilege. So, not only does the self-direction factor pose a problem for teaching at scale, the fact that a high degree of self-direction may be required for successful completion of coursework towards the new workforce means that existing structures of inequality will be replicated in the future if we rely on these large-scale programs.
The problem of future jobs is not one of skills training — it is one of diminishing jobs. How will we cope with a workforce that is simply irrelevant? Jennifer Zickerman. But in the next decade or two, there is likely to be a significant amount of technological innovation in machine intelligence and personal assistants that takes a real swipe out of the jobs we want humans to have in education, health care, transportation, agriculture and public safety.
As for the skills for the employed fraction of advanced countries, I think they will be difficult to teach. Nathaniel Borenstein. Algorithms, automation and robotics will result in capital no longer needing labor to progress the economic agenda. Labor becomes, in many ways, surplus to economic requirements.
By the time the training programs are widely available, the required skills will no longer be required.
The whole emphasis of training must now be directed towards personal life skills development rather than the traditional working career-based approach. There is also the massive sociological economic impact of general automation and AI that must be addressed to redistribute wealth and focus life skills at lifelong learning. We urgently need to explore how to distribute the increasing wealth of complex goods and services our civilization produces to a populace that will be increasingly jobless in the traditional sense.
The current trend of concentrating wealth in the hands of a diminishing number of ultra-rich individuals is unsustainable. All of this while dealing with the destabilizing effects of climate change and the adaptations necessary to mitigate its worst impacts. Some of these experts projected further out into the future, imagining a world where the machines themselves learn and overtake core human emotional and cognitive capacities.
Timothy C. This section features responses by several more of the many top analysts who participated in this canvassing. Following this wide-ranging set of comments on the topic, a much more expansive set of quotations directly tied to the set of four themes begins on Page From the employer perspective, this type of learning will only grow.
The automation of human labor will grow significantly. And having a workforce trained in discrete and atomizable bits of skills will be seen as a benefit by employers. This of course is a terrible, soulless, insecure life for the workers, but since when did that really change anything?
There will also be a parallel call for benefits, professional development, and compensation that smooths out the rough patches in this on-demand labor life, but such efforts will lag behind the exploitation of said labor because big business has more resources and big tech moves too fast for human-scale responses of accountability and responsibility. Look at Linux and open-source development.
The world runs on both now, and they employ millions of human beings. Many, or most, of the new open-source programmers building and running our world today are self-taught, or teach each other, to a higher degree than they are educated by formal schooling.
Look at Khan Academy and the home-schooling movement, both of which in many ways outperform formal institutional education. This model for employment of self and others will also spread to other professions. The great educator John Taylor Gatto , who won many awards for his teaching and rarely obeyed curricular requirements, says nearly all attempts to reform education make it worse.
We are by nature learning animals. We are each also very different: both from each other and from who we were yesterday.
As a society we need to take advantage of that, and nurture our natural hunger for knowledge and productive work while respecting and encouraging our diversity, a fundamental balancing feature of all nature, human and otherwise. But we will likely see a radical economic disruption in education — using new tools and means to learn and certify learning — and that is the way by which we will manage to train many more people in many new skills.
An earlier and more enduring focus on stats and statistical literacy — which can readily be taught using current affairs, for example, analyzing the poll numbers from elections, the claims made by climate change scientists, or even the excellent oral arguments in the Supreme Court Texas abortion law case — would impart skills that transferred well into IT, programming and, especially, security.
About , years ago, Earth experienced its first Cambrian Explosion — a period of rapid cellular evolution and diversification that resulted in the foundation of life as we know it today. We are clearly in the dawn of a new age, one that is marked not just by advanced machines but, rather, machines that are starting to learn how to think.
Soon, those machines that can think will augment humankind, helping to unlock our creative and industrial potential. Some of the workforce will find itself displaced by automation.
That includes anyone whose primary job functions are transactional bank tellers, drivers, mortgage brokers. However, there are many fields that will begin to work alongside smart machines: doctors, journalists, teachers. The most important skill of any future worker will be adaptability.
This current Cambrian Explosion of machines will mean diversification in our systems, our interfaces, our code. Workers who have the temperament and fortitude to quickly learn new menu screens, who can find information quickly, and the like will fare well.
I do not see the wide-scale emergence of training programs during the next 10 years due to the emergence of smart machines alone. The jury is very much out on the extent to which acquisition of knowledge and reasoning skills requires human interaction.
We now have empirical evidence that a substantial percentage — half or more — can be gained through self-study using computer-assisted techniques. The path forward for society as a whole is strewn with obstacles of self-interest, ignorance, flawed economics, etc. Here I want to focus on other areas. The issue is not just training but cultural re-evaluation of teaching and healing as highly respected skills.
Few of us make anything we use — from the building we live in to the objects we own — and these things are mostly manufactured as cheaply as possible, to be easily bought, discarded, and bought again, in a process of relentless acquisition that often brings little happiness. Very easily accessible learning for how to fix these things themselves and making it economically rewarding, in the case of a common good — is a simple, basic example of the kind of ubiquitous craft learning that at scale would be enormously valuable.
Some of this can be taught online — a key component is also online coordination. Certainly science and technology are important, but we need to refocus liberal education, not ignore it. History, in all its complexity.
Critical thinking — how to debate, how to recognize persuasive techniques, how to understand multiple perspectives, how to mediate between different viewpoints. Key skill: how to research, how to evaluate what you see and read.
Sites like Stack Overflow for software engineers demonstrate a new moral sense that learning in private is selfish. Public learning is becoming the norm.
Instead, most focus will be on childhood education for the poorer sectors of the world. Udacity is a good example of the trajectory. After starting a company to pursue the idea, he pivoted, focusing specifically on skill-oriented education that is coupled directly to the job market. These need not be MOOCs. Even mobiles can be sources of education.
I hope we will see more opportunities arising for sharing this kind of knowledge. New online credential systems will first complement, then gradually replace the old ones. The skills of the future? Those are the skills a robot cannot master yet. Leadership, design, human meta communication, critical thinking, motivating, cooperating, innovating. In my black-and-white moments I say: Skip all knowledge training in high schools.
We make you better than a robot. We let you cooperate with robots. We build your self-trust. We turn you into a decent, polite, social person. And most importantly, we do not mix education with religion — never. The subject-matter-specific part of a B. A large part of this time is spent not in a classroom but becoming fluent through monitored practice, including group work, internships and other high-intensity, high-interaction apprentice-like programs. There are possibilities for adding limited skill sets to otherwise qualified workers, e.
Jobs that seem viable may fall victim to a surprising development in automation see, for example, filmmaking ; new categories of work may not last long enough to support large numbers of employees. Automation and semi-automation e. Training is useful but not the end of education — only a kind of education. As for sipping: you need not know the name of every bear to know you should avoid bears.
Yet the continual construction of knowledge and cultures requires more from us. So far, training formally as in Kahn Academy and Lynda. No programmer or developer could keep up without the informal training of Stack Overflow.
No need for debate. A little information sip will let us know. But what is left out? Collaborative construction of knowledge in new areas, deeper investigation into known areas, and the discovery of entirely new areas of knowledge.
This is our challenge: how to create wisdom from knowledge, not just jobs from training and information. Today programming is increasingly become a trade. The problem with many websites is not so much the training of the programmers as much as getting managers and C-level people who understand the new concepts of a world being redefined by software.
We need to think about co-evolving work and workers. And, as always, critical thinking will remain the biggest challenge.
Rigorous science and humanities courses help students learn how to learn. Skills training all too often does not. Of course, it can complement core academic courses, and is likely to be part of a lifetime of learning for those switching occupations.
But turning high school and college into narrow vocational education programs would make their graduates more vulnerable to robotic replacement, not less. We need to invest in higher education, shoring up support for traditional universities and colleges, lest they eventually become bastions for reproduction of an elite, leaving the rest of society to untested experiments or online programs.
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It also carries personal benefits. Research has frequently shown that high emotional intelligence is one of the most reliable predictors of career success and salary levels.
The concept was first by Daniel Goleman, in his book Emotional Intelligence , which suggested there was more to intelligence than just IQ. Since then, it has been widely acknowledged and has been the subject of much scholarship and debate. Those in possession of emotional intelligence are alive to their own feelings and those of others , and how these relate to actions and decision-making.
They show humility in giving and receiving feedback, are reliable and committed to helping others, and willing to apologise and to forgive when necessary. As we move towards a globalised society, being aware of and considerate of cultural differences has also become a part of the emotional intelligence mix. Possessing these qualities help us to work in collaborative environments, reduce stress, and get the best results from everyone. Naturally, you can see why employers would want to hire people like this.
Unfortunately, there is a skills gap in emotional intelligence. While this is negative, it does create a clear opportunity for those with a view to improving their own future employability. Emotional intelligence is necessary in any career that involves working with other people. Whether a nurse, a CFO, or a coder, emotional intelligence will greatly strengthen your career skills. Emotional Intelligence at Work , with Coventry University. This course looks at how emotional intelligence is important not just in our relationships with others, but also with ourselves.
Learners will explore key theories around emotional intelligence and how these can be applied within organisational settings. In the modern diverse and international organisational landscape, IQ and EQ must be supported by cultural intelligence — that is the ability to work with those different to us, be it in terms of gender, cultural background, professional sector, or any other measure.
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This course explores fundamental perspectives on leaderships a leader as a person and leadership as a practice , and the difference between leadership and management. Creativity is regularly identified as a key skill for the future. Indeed, the quality of creativity is one that has increased in importance in all types of professions in recent years, says Accenture. Indeed, it is argued that creativity is more important for more careers than the often-focussed upon STEM skills.
Creativity is deemed to be a particularly essential skill in the field of management and leadership and, interestingly, in science and engineering, according to this report. Accenture notes that in the latter category, the need for creativity and socio-emotional intelligence will increase as human-machine collaboration increases.
This is perhaps more broadly applicable. As machine learning and automation increasingly comes to take over many day-to-day functions, we will see something of a levelling effect between different organisations. The differentiating factor will be creativity. Schools will play a role in fostering creativity. Nesta calls for the integration of creativity into the curriculum — noting that in countries like Finland, Australia, and Canada are already working on this.
Younger generations are digital natives, but there also needs to be a focus on employing these skills with creativity. Creativity is an umbrella term. Underneath it, comes an array of skills considered necessary for the workplaces of the future: complex problem solving, multidisciplinary thinking, and cognitive flexibility. Education plays a crucial part in fostering creativity — not just when learning at school or university, but throughout our lives, be it through formal learning or through life experience.
Like emotional intelligence, creativity will be at the core of all future professions. And, like emotional intelligence, creativity in all its guises is something that cannot be automated.
We may be able to use machines to do the legwork, but they can only do what we tell them. It remains up to us to see the connections, take risks, and to identify the problems that we believe need to be solved.
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