“What” we teach needs to be updated and upgraded to reflect the rapid changing needs from tomorrows industries. Coding skills become equally relevant to learning maths, history, and language. Not every child will become a programmer, but every child will need to understand how future roles will evolve and new jobs will be created. This is not a higher education or k-12 challenge alone. This transformation relates to the whole education eco-system…preparing our students for a new reality – from kindergarten through to Year 12 and universities, including access to continuous learning after we enter the workforce. “Learning” in today’s Information Age and digital economy will never stop. “Education” is an industry itself that will increasingly be disrupted in the Digital Age. Like every other sector, the education industry needs to transform itself and embrace digital capabilities to enable, differentiate and (re)define itself. Read more see attached article.

What we want are educators who have a range of skills, including teaching, but also have very advanced skills in facilitation, in curation of learning, in brokering opportunities and experiences, in connecting people to people, students to others, students to students. Why? See attachment. Simple tools like Flipboard and iTunesU can start you off.

The last revolution in education took place in the industrial revolution when public education became compulsory. Apart from changes in the tools we use and the physical layout of classrooms, education has not had a revolution since then. Many schools are largely doing the same thing as they did in the 18th and 19th centuries. Dr Michael Myers OAM (Re-Engineering Australia Foundation Ltd), tells us where education should go. A good read. See attachment.