T summit - nas dc - final - charles fadel

Charles FadelMarch 22, 2016

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Four-Dimensional Education

Knowledge | Skills | Character | Meta-Learning

Twitter: @CurrRedesign #4DEdu

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Volatile

Uncertain

Complex

Ambiguous

Our New World


Climate change Personal privacy

Financial instability Political partisanship

The road ahead is challenging…

Inequities

Technological disruptions

Religious intolerance


The Goals of Education: Maslow’s Pyramid

Employability


Source: Video extract from “Occupy Wall Street”

The stakes have never been higher


Disconnect between employers and educators


Accelerating Change Demands Different Skills

e.g. consultants

e.g. engineers

e.g. paperwork

e.g. assembly

work

e.g. plumbing

Source: David Autor, MIT


The Impact of Technology


Growing Concern


Algorithmic Composition of Music


Google Autonomous Vehicle

> 1 Million miles,

14 minor accidents,

all human-induced


Algorithmic Trading – Flash Crash

>60% of volume is now “high-speed trading”


WikiBots

42% of Wikipedia is edited by 12 bots !


https://x.ai/about/


Computers can sketch too !

Seven artists generated about 8,000 pen strokes

Disney's software analyzed how greatly artists exaggerated the distance between facial features.


Human workers, managed by an algorithm

“The latest trend in crowdsourcing is organizing foreign workers on a mass scale to do routine tasks that computers aren’t yet good at, assigned by an algorithm”


More to come… Robotics


Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour

Pays for itself in a year.

No cashiers or servers.

http://singularityhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/image7A.jpg

http://singularityhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/image7A.jpg


Robots learning from each other

Knowledge shared worldwide in online database.

Computing tasks carried out in the Cloud

http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/RoboEarth_robot.jpg

http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/RoboEarth_robot.jpg

http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/RoboEarth1.jpg

http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/RoboEarth1.jpg


And more, including flying


More to come – Augmented Reality


More to come… Virtual Reality


More to come… 3-D Printing


More to come… Internet of Things


More to come – Quantified Self


More to come… Brain-enhancers


More to come… Bioengineering

Gene Sequencing (PCR)Gene Editing (CRISPR)ProteomicsSynthetic BiologySTEM cellsCloningEtc.

Profound consequences

Ethics, Wisdom !


More to come… Nanomaterials


“The future is already here –

it's just not very evenly distributed.”

Science-Fiction author William Gibson


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


Watson goes to medical school

Collect and assess patient data

Construct “inference paths” toward a probable diagnosis


More True by the Day

“We are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don’t yet exist… to solve problems that we don’t even know are problems yet.”

Richard Riley

Former U.S. Secretary of Education


The Race between Technology and Education

Inspired by “The race between

technology and education”

Pr. Goldin & Katz (Harvard)

Industrial Revolution

Social pain

Social pain

Prosperity

Technology

Education

Digital Revolution


Whatshould students learn for the

21st century?


“Please, may I ask where you’re going with all this?”

Students beg for Relevance

Source: New Yorker


with key global players

International

Organizations

International

OrganizationsInternational

Organizations

Jurisdictions

International

OrganizationsAcademia

International

Organizations

Foundations

& Non-Profits

International

OrganizationsCorporations


VUCA world Versatility as key strategy


From T-shaped to m-shaped

mTBroad Knowledge

Single Multiple

Deep Expertise

STEM AND Humanities/Arts

Knowledge AND Skills/Character/Meta-Learning

Source: Jim

Spohrer, IBM


Reassess Knowledge for Relevance and Versatility


Introduce Modern Knowledge and Harness Interdisciplinarity

Robotics

Entrepreneurship

Wellness

and more…


Embed Cross Cutting Themes

Global Literacy

Information Literacy

Environmental Literacy

Digital Literacy

Systems Thinking

Design Thinking

Photo: Radek Szuban


Learn skills

Creativity

Critical Thinking

Communication

Collaboration


Build Character

Mindfulness

Curiosity

Courage

Resilience

Ethics

Leadership


21st Century Education Framework


“Clear and actionable, first-of-

its-kind organizing framework of

competencies needed”Andreas Schleicher,

OECD

“Educators worldwide [need] to

rapidly operationalize these

dimensions”Todd Rose,

Harvard University


We agree


“What should students learn for the 21st century?”

Thank You !

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