{"id":24698,"date":"2020-02-07T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pdainternational.net\/?p=24698"},"modified":"2022-05-16T17:01:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T20:01:40","slug":"education-for-the-jobs-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pdainternational.net\/en\/education-for-the-jobs-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Education for the jobs of the future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u201cThe best way to predict the future is to create it\u201d \u2013 Peter Drucker<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The future is inevitable, and this compels us to invest better in education and in the development of skills that prepare us for new professional positions and profiles.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this sense, teaching fulfils a structural factor and the growth of collaborative work allows students&nbsp;to continually explore&nbsp;their social and technical learning skills on all levels.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why new learning experiences&nbsp;should be geared&nbsp;towards students developing skills that only humans are capable of performing, while not disregarding cognitive skills.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to this, numerous experts are talking about prioritising investment in a child\u2019s first years of life, when brains are more malleable and receptive. Although development during these years is undoubtedly crucial,&nbsp;there\u2019s&nbsp;no reason to only focus on actions attached to early infancy.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research conducted by the Deloitte Future of Work Centre of Excellence (2018) concluded that as technology has advanced, half&nbsp;the&nbsp;jobs in all occupations run the risk of&nbsp;becoming automated&nbsp;in the next 5 years.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-heading\">A study conducted by Oxford Martin School showed a similar result, determining that 47% of current job positions run the risk of disappearing in the next 15-20 years and&nbsp;that humans will be replaced by artificial intelligence in these roles.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How are you preparing for the future?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We want to share this TED talk given by economist Andrew McAfee about what the jobs of the future will look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"What will future jobs look like? | Andrew McAfee\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cXQrbxD9_Ng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe best way to predict the future is to create it\u201d \u2013 Peter Drucker&nbsp; The future is inevitable, and this compels us to invest better in education and in the development of skills that prepare us for new professional positions and profiles.&nbsp;&nbsp; In this sense, teaching fulfils a structural factor and the growth of collaborative work allows students&nbsp;to continually explore&nbsp;their social and technical learning skills on all levels.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is why new learning experiences&nbsp;should be geared&nbsp;towards students developing skills that only humans are capable of performing, while not disregarding cognitive skills.&nbsp;&nbsp; In response to this, numerous experts are talking about prioritising investment in a child\u2019s first years of life, when brains are more malleable and receptive. Although development during these years is undoubtedly crucial,&nbsp;there\u2019s&nbsp;no reason to only focus on actions attached to early infancy.&nbsp;&nbsp; Research conducted by the Deloitte Future of Work Centre of Excellence (2018) concluded that as technology has advanced, half&nbsp;the&nbsp;jobs in all occupations run the risk of&nbsp;becoming automated&nbsp;in the next 5 years.&nbsp;&nbsp; A study conducted by Oxford Martin School showed a similar result, determining that 47% of current job positions run the risk of disappearing in the next 15-20 years and&nbsp;that humans will be replaced by artificial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":24131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pdainternational.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pdainternational.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pdainternational.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pdainternational.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pdainternational.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pdainternational.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24699,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pdainternational.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24698\/revisions\/24699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pdainternational.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.pdainternational.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pdainternational.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.pdainternational.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}