Raising Kids For The Future
RAISING KIDS FOR FUTURE
Change is the only thing that does not change. This is something that we all know. And as we enter, what Professor Klaus Schwab calls, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, it is being said that 65% of the children entering primary school today will be doing jobs that do not exist yet.
I had once attended a lecture by Education Scientist Prof. Sugata Mitra. As a concerned parent, I asked him that with technology disrupting the world we know not just the work but the way we live and learn also, what skills should we teach our children today so that they can be successful tomorrow. He said, “train them to be adaptable and resilient”.
Living in the affluent developed world where the external environment is predictable today and in the era of the smartphone where everything can be summoned at the touch of a button without even a second’s delay, this is something we parents and educators need to think about “Are we raising adaptable and resilient future generation? “
Change is the only thing that does not change. This is something that we all know. And as we enter, what Professor Klaus Schwab calls, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, it is being said that 65% of the children entering primary school today will be doing jobs that do not exist yet.
I had once attended a lecture by Education Scientist Prof. Sugata Mitra. As a concerned parent, I asked him that with technology disrupting the world we know not just the work but the way we live and learn also, what skills should we teach our children today so that they can be successful tomorrow. He said, “train them to be adaptable and resilient”.
Living in the affluent developed world where the external environment is predictable today and in the era of the smartphone where everything can be summoned at the touch of a button without even a second’s delay, this is something we parents and educators need to think about “Are we raising adaptable and resilient future generation? “
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