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the 15 vs. 15 suits versus hoodies
Oxford’s vs. sneakers do you know which
one I’m talking about in this world you
don’t go out to catch a client but to
catch a Pokemon and that adds more value
to your company this is the future work
environment which is already started
setting in this is the kind of change
that the corporate world has not seen in
the past 160 years we parents teachers
universities and education policymakers
need to know how do we raise the next
wave of working executives today we are
raising the children very differently
from what is expected of them in the
corporate world in the past two decades
there have been the gap has been
widening between the skills that are
produced by the educational institutions
and those which are developed by the
corporate those which are needed by the
corporate world
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we have now come to a situation where
the Fortune International says that only
1% of the jobs which are listed on the
monster website require an MBA
qualification which is down by 50% from
previous years many senior executives
like Sheryl Sandberg Peter Pyle Ellen
must have been saying that an MBA is not
necessary to succeed entire industry
could be flipped on its head by some
kids with a knack says 4 – the
International and if we look around this
is actually being so it took seven years
for Airbnb to be more valuable on paper
than Hilton Worldwide it took four it
took over six years to top Ford and
General Motors the top company
executives of today are in an awkward
position if they do nothing or they
dismiss startups there is irrelevance
the latest issue of the Economist
magazine has brought back the machinery
question in the context of artificial
intelligence let me tell you what it
says it says that artificial
intelligence will make waves of people
unemployed like it was 160 years ago
during the industrial revolution so what
do we do about it
the most prominent question before our
parents and teachers is how do we bring
the children into this world to make
them succeed and thrive the Fortune
magazine has an article about knowing
the limits of machine in their July
edition it goes on to say that growing
number of jobs at every level can be
done much better by machines not just
faster and cheaper but better than human
so the most prominent question that we
parents teachers education policymakers
have is how do we get our children to
become problem solvers because what the
world needs today is not just cogs and
pegs that fit into a huge machinery and
carry on like that but those who can
solve problems and take the world into
we believe that preteens and teens have
tremendous potential because of their
creative capacity and the boundless
energy that they have however going
through the formal education process
most of them lose these skills and
become more of cogs and pegs that fit
into a huge machinery and then they
carry on like that throughout their
lives so we feel that we need to change
so how do we go about doing this
well well this is easy because I look at
what a dog sees as mountain-like is just
the collection of their notions stacked
one on top of another I have the
advantage to be free from such notions
we had devised the program which has
touched 350 kids and made them from
consumers to creators we have made them
into problem solvers which will help
here is what a program is well the
children come in a weekend in small
groups of varying age in an informal
setting this found the sofa at on the
carpet or even sit on the terrace they
visualize their ideas and use code
blocks to create them they develop those
ideas to gain stories animations apps
just about anything then they share
their excitement by projecting their
work on a big screen in between they
watch some inspiring tech videos and
enjoy hot chocolate and cookies let us
see how this skill building is useful in
the real world
one Sunday 20 minutes before the closing
time of a major grocery store in
Luxembourg known as dough pays an
operational issue sprang up the entry
door in the underground car parking
floor stopped working has summers start
to buildin up on both sides of the door
bill his officials tried but could not
fix the issue the reputation of the
store was at stake I was 12 at that time
Ayana is the problem and applied
computational thinking and rotational
thinking is a process which is a which
we teach which is basically breaking
bigger problems into smaller bite-sized
pieces and that way you can deal with
the bigger problem faster so I found out
that the sensor and the door had
malfunctioned so I asked dad to move to
cover the whole sensor with his hand
while I ran and pushed the door the door
open and I started to work normally
thereafter they saved the store from
dismantling systems and carrying out
detailed Diagnostics
so here’s how it all started for me
around five once upon the time around
five years back I was nine and just a
normal kid I was forgetting to do my
homework and spending lots of time
reading villages and reading shorts when
I was bored of everything else I teased
my younger sister life was blissful and
pretty good as I thought then however my
mom was getting worried my mom was a
project manager came across the idea of
a Kanban board it was a time management
chart for me to for me to put my
activities I stuck to that as a
discipline and I started displaying my
activities now my mom knew what was next
on my agenda now happy she stopped
pulling me out of storming beaches and
attacking villages
it was a win-win situation this small
success led my mom to get excited about
something more she has been the board
member of the PMI Institute of
Luxembourg and has been developing
courses to teach younger children
project management skills to my surprise
I was listed as a close speaker with her
in the next event
I enjoyed sharing my experiences with
the formally dressed adults and they
were happy that their children could now
also manage to do their homework and not
just spend their time playing games I am
when I was 11 I started co-facilitating
workshops with my mom to teach young
children how to code when I was 12 I
started to run those sessions
independently this small success was
something bigger a german-based startup
where working children as teachers gave
him assignment to script perform and
record three talks on teaching computer
programming skills hi the series on how
to vote how to develop a website they
got so happy with my content and
production that they presented me with
the Mac Mini and some other gadgets that
I always wanted I thought this to be
really really cool there have been many
hurdles in this process as well
the most significant had been mindset
hurdles many adults carry the
traditional notion that only someone
senior in age could know something more
than them another mindset hurdle is that
parents instinctively think that coding
is a hardship imposed on younger
they think that learning on a weekend
means depriving their child of
relaxation time or sports and is being
pulled to their child some logistic
roles are that this summer I was offered
an internship at CERN
however Swiss national laws require
interns to be at least of 16 years of
age I wish they would have allowed
younger interns under the influence of a
guardian another example is that EU had
announced the scheme around two weeks
back to nurture young passionate
entrepreneurs in the age group of 16 to
24 i had desired to join this initiative
and i met all the criteria except for
the minimum age of 16 years i believe
that physical age should not be a little
should not be a boundary to limit one’s
true entrepreneurial passion
nevertheless i keep moving on children
were considered to have reading or
writing deficiencies in the eyes of
adults or so-called dyslexic are one of
my best students although adults
evaluate children based on the ability
to speak and read what i notice and then
is their ability to do and make one of
my seven-year-old students could not
read what was written on the code blog
but had the intelligence to pick up the
right blocks and make it into this
amazing maze game which even
twelve-year-old students cannot this is
the kind of hidden talent that we are
able to explore and bring out to the
absolute delight of their parents the
smile on their faces will get us to do
more here are some examples of the
mobile apps that they make a drawing app
a Wacom oh and the hangman game was made
by a student using Python as you see
that they also made an animal generator
which I’m not sure what is used before
here are some projects that were made by
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this was made by a seven-year-old
student
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this was made to teachers younger
brothers the alphabet
George went to sleep through these cells
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in conclusion we have three key messages
one most parents think that if children
are not subjected to strict discipline
they will wile away their time and you
get involved in silly things and destroy
their future they need to trust and
empower their children secondly many
many adults have different expectations
from preteens and teens and what they
themselves do in their day to day lives
this subconsciously affects the children
and hampers their motivation to learn
finally the education system everywhere
tells of the learning time of children
with the task of memorizing trivial
details such as names dates etc and
needs little time to learn concepts and
put them into applications a problem
solving based approach is an immediate
requirement if government’s want to see
our youths fully employed if they
continue as they are societies will be
full of calms and pegs but very few
entrepreneurs with the caliber to design
may or do overhauling the entire
education model on the problem solving
based approach is an immediate
requirement the developments want to see
their youths fully employed coding is
the strongest tool to make that happen
across all subjects so that we are
making our little effort in this
direction in Luxembourg standing in
Varanasi the spiritual capital of India
I call for a change
let coding with the new alphabets of
Education fifties with fifteens
suits with hoodies Oxford’s with
sneakers boardrooms in the garage when
can you bring this change to us the time
is now thank you
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