Many not-for-profits are directing their efforts to provide equitable access to public education. However, putting more students in a broken, dysfunctional system won’t yield the outcomes and impact we want. Instead, the very structure and process of education will need to change if we are to provide students with the knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies they need for jobs that have yet to be created.
What’s more, unless we address the gender social and cultural stereotypes, the 4IR could make gender inequity worse, not better.
One goal should be to create entrepreneurial schools and universities, and by that I don’t mean teaching children how to start businesses. Instead, creating the entrepreneurial mindset is about the pursuit of opportunity with scarce resources with the goal of creating user defined value through the deployment of innovation. Creating a successful business is but one of many ways to do that.
So bearing in mind the scope of change required and how long the education system takes to adapt… we have a challenge. So how much focus do we truly have on changing and readying the education system? WE hear lots from politicians and industry (sales people?) about 4IR but how much are we hearing from educators about all the changes they’ve made to their system? Do educators understand 4IR and what they need to change?
Watch an interesting video about the paradigm shift required within education to help make 4IR happen at How Should We Educate Children to Win the Fourth Industrial Revolution? – Innovation Excellence
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