[Music]
could I ask are there any teachers in
the audience and I mean teachers tutors
anyone who may teach others can you wave
your hand if you’re a teacher and can
you have a look at those wonderful
people and give them a huge round of
applause
they don’t always get the recognition
they deserve
are there any parents in the audience
give them another really big round of
applause we’re just looking at the two
most important to Moreau jobs that
currently exist if you currently don’t
have a tomorrow job this talk is for you
as well as the teachers as well as the
parents this is about learning for
tomorrow I’ve chosen a Shakespeare quote
to start tomorrow and tomorrow and
tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from
day to day and way back he Shakespeare’s
time he was already considering what is
it we need to know today to cope with
tomorrow and so I’m going to talk about
three things quite quickly the tomorrow
challenge the fact that we’re currently
ignoring tomorrow and then how do we
embrace tomorrow okay so first of all
what is this tomorrow challenge well you
may have heard the statistic 60% of the
Jabez jobs
haven’t yet been invented I told them
earlier that about 80% of statistics are
made up on the spot but I believe this
one might be true if those jobs aren’t
invented yet how do we train how do we
teach how do we learn for the future of
those jobs the second thing is we can’t
afford to ignore education or learning
it’s not just about whether or not we
become economically viable then a vastly
and rapidly changing world we need to
also be able to overcome ignorance of
many kinds and we might focus quite a
lot saying oh well all of tomorrow jobs
are going to be about technology but
actually we need to really check
ourselves on that because I just had my
hair
done by some amazing beauticians and the
service industry is going to be one of
the industries of the future and we also
need to be very careful because research
is showing that technology might
actually be quite addictive to children
so these are some of the challenges the
inconsistencies and the contradictions
that we face I hope with this now
there’s a famous quote and that is the
when the wind of change blows those who
cope build windmills they don’t build
walls and in our modern society that
idea of building walls has become even
more pertinent now we need to teach our
future children how to build windmills
when those winds have changed blow so
what are we doing about it well at the
moment our education systems pretty much
globally are ignoring tomorrow we have
what I would call the education for
yesterday it worked for our politicians
like our grammar school education in the
UK and maybe the education system where
children sit in rows and we try and make
them listen that’s yesterday’s education
we’ve also developed an obsession with
testing and I learnt the expression the
first time I visited Romania a pig
doesn’t grow any fatter no matter how
many times you weigh it the knowledge
economy which I think may be something
of a myth we need to be very very
careful about telling everybody but the
future is what you know the future is in
your knowledge when actually the future
might be in what you can do and the
personality you have if you think 10
years ago I had never heard of the job
social media marketing manager 20 years
ago I’d never heard of a wind farm
engineer so we think about this
knowledge economy yes there are those
jobs but often it’s the personality
those are the skills we
need to be teaching the skills of
customer care we also need to consider
something called now the post truth
society the fact that we have to deal
with is that alternative facts one of
the key things we need to be teaching
our children is not to believe
everything you read on the internet
because discernment is actually going to
be really important for our teacher
future children and then the final point
I asked my grandmother before I was
doing this speech grandma you’re 96 and
you have seen a lot of changes in your
time what do you think is the most
awesome thing that’s happened the most
difficult thing you’ve had to come to
terms with all the technology the fact
that you’ve been able to use Facebook
and she said oh darling I had to come to
terms with yogurt but actually there’s
so much that we don’t really know about
what we got to come to terms with the
future is so uncertain and in fact I can
say one thing standing here with
certainty is the future is very
uncertain so what are we going to do
well we’re going to embrace tomorrow and
we’re going to be led by the Cat in the
Hat
to do that because what we need to be
able to do is think left think right
think low think high the things we can
think of if only we try we need a
creative generation we need children to
be in school learning to learn learning
to love learning and learning to work
together so they can think up the things
that we’re going to need for a very
challenging future fundamental skills
like literacy this photograph is taken
from a project in Papua New Guinea and
this project is where adults who can
read even just a little bit they go and
teach the people next door to them or
children in their community to read so
if they learn a word I can teach that
word to someone else
it’s called one-plus school in one play
it means each one teach one it’s a
community initiative because literacy is
a fundamental tool that so many of the
people in our world don’t have yet many
people in the UK don’t have and I know
here in Romania many children are still
struggling to get literacy but that’s
one of the first tools in their toolkit
and the second tool is numerously the
skills of adding up and even if all
you’ve got to do that with is stones we
can still be teaching children those
skills of numeracy but they’re tools
they’re not something that has to be
tested over and over again to see if
they are numerous they’re tools that
they can use for problem-solving tools
that they can use for communication
tools that they can use to do things
with these children here walk for two
hours to get to school because they
recognize the importance of those tools
for their future life communication
skills are going to be essential and not
just about communicating as in telling
people things but understanding the
other understanding or the languages
understanding the fact that people see
things differently from you they come
from different cultures and different
backgrounds in our current world with so
many issues of strife that is going to
be a fundamental skill for the children
of our future and problem-solving this
is me encountering instructions for Lego
my knees saying to me aunt ELISA you’re
not very good at this are you I said I’m
a little bit stuck and I’m not used to
following instructions but problem
solving is an essential skill for the
future so many of the children I
encounter they want to know tell me the
answer
like there’s this answer and they can
get that answer tell me the answer but
there aren’t any answers the world of
tomorrow is moving on so fast we don’t
know what the answers are we can’t tell
the children of today what the answers
are for tomorrow we’ve got to give them
the skills and the tools to solve their
own problems they might not always have
the Lego instructions to follow to make
a dragon or they may not have an aunty
with their head in her hands we also
need to be able to take risks we need to
be able to teach children teach the
future generation that it’s okay to fail
it’s actually okay to make a mistake
our testing culture isn’t really helping
them with that I met a parent recently
who had paid extra money for their child
to have extra lessons just for the SATs
test at the age of seven seven that
child should have been out timing trees
problem solving risk-taking those are
the skills for the future also these are
girls in this tree and it’s really
important that we start we get rid of
those distinctions about what girls and
boys can’t do we need female engineers
female risk-takers we need girls that
climb trees too so embracing our
tomorrow what would a future curriculum
look like well it’s creativity it’s
where children bring together the tools
they’ve learnt and they learn and do
together
they’re creative it’s about
problem-solving it’s also about putting
problem solving and creativity together
so that what they are able to do is
buildings and problem-solve together
it’s about communication skills but it’s
not just about communicating it’s
putting the communication skills into a
session into a lesson it’s about
teamwork and this slide here is from an
activity I’ve just done recently and
that activity was children were learning
about the plants hunters of the 18th
century and back in the 18th century we
were searching for cures for plant for
diseases we went to look for plants all
over the place but the children dressed
up they were given tools they were
taught information by someone dressed up
as an explorer but they were digging
things up they were counting the samples
they were working in teams to collect
things so the education of the future
combines all our skills
it isn’t citizen rose it brings us
together and it gives us activities to
problem-solve to do things and to act
it’s not just also about risk-taking
it’s about resilience one of the key
things children are going to need for
their future is resilience I’ve worked
for many years and I have had so many
jobs and that’s now the children of our
future are going to change careers many
times there’s no such thing as a job for
life anymore so what those children need
is to be able to get up and get on with
it
and things go wrong or where things
didn’t go in the direction they went
they need that resilience to say hey I
know how to get over been stuck I know
how to learn for myself and through
activities in school were they have
given time what I call struggle space
they learn that resilience and finally
they need to just learn how to learn
I’ve recently done a project where we
taught children how to just enjoy
storytelling and through that the
literacy grades of those children went
up and up and up we didn’t put them
through tests we didn’t make them doing
anything like that we just read stories
and we also asked them to invent their
own stories and as a result their
literacy levels increased okay so the
most important thing is if we’re going
to create this future if we’re going to
do this we’re all in it together this
isn’t just for schools this isn’t just
for parents this is all of us it says an
average area takes a whole village to
educate a child but if we’re going to do
something about the future of the
children tomorrow it takes all of us to
do this to lobby the school to lobby the
government and say this is the education
we want for our children tomorrow and we
want it for every child not just the
special ones not just the rich ones this
is something we need for every child and
so to finish on Shakespeare if you can
look into the seeds of time and say
which grain will grow and which will not
and we can’t we don’t know which child
will be the next prime minister next
president the next great footballer what
we do know is if we give them all a
chance if we give them that education
for tomorrow then they will lead us into
tomorrow and they will overcome some of
those challenges some of those things
that we are seeing if we do this
together then they will learn for
tomorrow thank you very much
you
could I ask are there any teachers in
the audience and I mean teachers tutors
anyone who may teach others can you wave
your hand if you’re a teacher and can
you have a look at those wonderful
people and give them a huge round of
applause
they don’t always get the recognition
they deserve
are there any parents in the audience
give them another really big round of
applause we’re just looking at the two
most important to Moreau jobs that
currently exist if you currently don’t
have a tomorrow job this talk is for you
as well as the teachers as well as the
parents this is about learning for
tomorrow I’ve chosen a Shakespeare quote
to start tomorrow and tomorrow and
tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from
day to day and way back he Shakespeare’s
time he was already considering what is
it we need to know today to cope with
tomorrow and so I’m going to talk about
three things quite quickly the tomorrow
challenge the fact that we’re currently
ignoring tomorrow and then how do we
embrace tomorrow okay so first of all
what is this tomorrow challenge well you
may have heard the statistic 60% of the
Jabez jobs
haven’t yet been invented I told them
earlier that about 80% of statistics are
made up on the spot but I believe this
one might be true if those jobs aren’t
invented yet how do we train how do we
teach how do we learn for the future of
those jobs the second thing is we can’t
afford to ignore education or learning
it’s not just about whether or not we
become economically viable then a vastly
and rapidly changing world we need to
also be able to overcome ignorance of
many kinds and we might focus quite a
lot saying oh well all of tomorrow jobs
are going to be about technology but
actually we need to really check
ourselves on that because I just had my
hair
done by some amazing beauticians and the
service industry is going to be one of
the industries of the future and we also
need to be very careful because research
is showing that technology might
actually be quite addictive to children
so these are some of the challenges the
inconsistencies and the contradictions
that we face I hope with this now
there’s a famous quote and that is the
when the wind of change blows those who
cope build windmills they don’t build
walls and in our modern society that
idea of building walls has become even
more pertinent now we need to teach our
future children how to build windmills
when those winds have changed blow so
what are we doing about it well at the
moment our education systems pretty much
globally are ignoring tomorrow we have
what I would call the education for
yesterday it worked for our politicians
like our grammar school education in the
UK and maybe the education system where
children sit in rows and we try and make
them listen that’s yesterday’s education
we’ve also developed an obsession with
testing and I learnt the expression the
first time I visited Romania a pig
doesn’t grow any fatter no matter how
many times you weigh it the knowledge
economy which I think may be something
of a myth we need to be very very
careful about telling everybody but the
future is what you know the future is in
your knowledge when actually the future
might be in what you can do and the
personality you have if you think 10
years ago I had never heard of the job
social media marketing manager 20 years
ago I’d never heard of a wind farm
engineer so we think about this
knowledge economy yes there are those
jobs but often it’s the personality
those are the skills we
need to be teaching the skills of
customer care we also need to consider
something called now the post truth
society the fact that we have to deal
with is that alternative facts one of
the key things we need to be teaching
our children is not to believe
everything you read on the internet
because discernment is actually going to
be really important for our teacher
future children and then the final point
I asked my grandmother before I was
doing this speech grandma you’re 96 and
you have seen a lot of changes in your
time what do you think is the most
awesome thing that’s happened the most
difficult thing you’ve had to come to
terms with all the technology the fact
that you’ve been able to use Facebook
and she said oh darling I had to come to
terms with yogurt but actually there’s
so much that we don’t really know about
what we got to come to terms with the
future is so uncertain and in fact I can
say one thing standing here with
certainty is the future is very
uncertain so what are we going to do
well we’re going to embrace tomorrow and
we’re going to be led by the Cat in the
Hat
to do that because what we need to be
able to do is think left think right
think low think high the things we can
think of if only we try we need a
creative generation we need children to
be in school learning to learn learning
to love learning and learning to work
together so they can think up the things
that we’re going to need for a very
challenging future fundamental skills
like literacy this photograph is taken
from a project in Papua New Guinea and
this project is where adults who can
read even just a little bit they go and
teach the people next door to them or
children in their community to read so
if they learn a word I can teach that
word to someone else
it’s called one-plus school in one play
it means each one teach one it’s a
community initiative because literacy is
a fundamental tool that so many of the
people in our world don’t have yet many
people in the UK don’t have and I know
here in Romania many children are still
struggling to get literacy but that’s
one of the first tools in their toolkit
and the second tool is numerously the
skills of adding up and even if all
you’ve got to do that with is stones we
can still be teaching children those
skills of numeracy but they’re tools
they’re not something that has to be
tested over and over again to see if
they are numerous they’re tools that
they can use for problem-solving tools
that they can use for communication
tools that they can use to do things
with these children here walk for two
hours to get to school because they
recognize the importance of those tools
for their future life communication
skills are going to be essential and not
just about communicating as in telling
people things but understanding the
other understanding or the languages
understanding the fact that people see
things differently from you they come
from different cultures and different
backgrounds in our current world with so
many issues of strife that is going to
be a fundamental skill for the children
of our future and problem-solving this
is me encountering instructions for Lego
my knees saying to me aunt ELISA you’re
not very good at this are you I said I’m
a little bit stuck and I’m not used to
following instructions but problem
solving is an essential skill for the
future so many of the children I
encounter they want to know tell me the
answer
like there’s this answer and they can
get that answer tell me the answer but
there aren’t any answers the world of
tomorrow is moving on so fast we don’t
know what the answers are we can’t tell
the children of today what the answers
are for tomorrow we’ve got to give them
the skills and the tools to solve their
own problems they might not always have
the Lego instructions to follow to make
a dragon or they may not have an aunty
with their head in her hands we also
need to be able to take risks we need to
be able to teach children teach the
future generation that it’s okay to fail
it’s actually okay to make a mistake
our testing culture isn’t really helping
them with that I met a parent recently
who had paid extra money for their child
to have extra lessons just for the SATs
test at the age of seven seven that
child should have been out timing trees
problem solving risk-taking those are
the skills for the future also these are
girls in this tree and it’s really
important that we start we get rid of
those distinctions about what girls and
boys can’t do we need female engineers
female risk-takers we need girls that
climb trees too so embracing our
tomorrow what would a future curriculum
look like well it’s creativity it’s
where children bring together the tools
they’ve learnt and they learn and do
together
they’re creative it’s about
problem-solving it’s also about putting
problem solving and creativity together
so that what they are able to do is
buildings and problem-solve together
it’s about communication skills but it’s
not just about communicating it’s
putting the communication skills into a
session into a lesson it’s about
teamwork and this slide here is from an
activity I’ve just done recently and
that activity was children were learning
about the plants hunters of the 18th
century and back in the 18th century we
were searching for cures for plant for
diseases we went to look for plants all
over the place but the children dressed
up they were given tools they were
taught information by someone dressed up
as an explorer but they were digging
things up they were counting the samples
they were working in teams to collect
things so the education of the future
combines all our skills
it isn’t citizen rose it brings us
together and it gives us activities to
problem-solve to do things and to act
it’s not just also about risk-taking
it’s about resilience one of the key
things children are going to need for
their future is resilience I’ve worked
for many years and I have had so many
jobs and that’s now the children of our
future are going to change careers many
times there’s no such thing as a job for
life anymore so what those children need
is to be able to get up and get on with
it
and things go wrong or where things
didn’t go in the direction they went
they need that resilience to say hey I
know how to get over been stuck I know
how to learn for myself and through
activities in school were they have
given time what I call struggle space
they learn that resilience and finally
they need to just learn how to learn
I’ve recently done a project where we
taught children how to just enjoy
storytelling and through that the
literacy grades of those children went
up and up and up we didn’t put them
through tests we didn’t make them doing
anything like that we just read stories
and we also asked them to invent their
own stories and as a result their
literacy levels increased okay so the
most important thing is if we’re going
to create this future if we’re going to
do this we’re all in it together this
isn’t just for schools this isn’t just
for parents this is all of us it says an
average area takes a whole village to
educate a child but if we’re going to do
something about the future of the
children tomorrow it takes all of us to
do this to lobby the school to lobby the
government and say this is the education
we want for our children tomorrow and we
want it for every child not just the
special ones not just the rich ones this
is something we need for every child and
so to finish on Shakespeare if you can
look into the seeds of time and say
which grain will grow and which will not
and we can’t we don’t know which child
will be the next prime minister next
president the next great footballer what
we do know is if we give them all a
chance if we give them that education
for tomorrow then they will lead us into
tomorrow and they will overcome some of
those challenges some of those things
that we are seeing if we do this
together then they will learn for
tomorrow thank you very much
you
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