Reinvent the future –– an excellent presentation by Professor Steven Van Belleghem
From DSC:
Though this presentation is aimed at the corporate world, there are NUMEROUS lessons here for those of us working within the world of higher education.
Sample slides:
From DSC:
This type of presentation prompts me to ask why there isn’t more coursework being offered involving futurism…?
And within our current business offerings, are we applying enough emphasis on freelancing, entrepreneurship, innovation, and in pulse-checking a variety of landscapes?
Along these lines, see:
Need a job? Invent it — from nytimes.com by Thomas Friedman
Excerpts:
Every middle-class job today is being pulled up, out or down faster than ever. That is, it either requires more skill or can be done by more people around the world or is being buried — made obsolete — faster than ever. Which is why the goal of education today, argues Wagner, should not be to make every child “college ready” but “innovation ready” — ready to add value to whatever they do.
So what should be the focus of education reform today?
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We need to focus more on teaching the skill and will to learn and to make a difference and bring the three most powerful ingredients of intrinsic motivation into the classroom: play, passion and purpose.”