Politicians and business leaders demand that schools prepare students for the future, but the future is notoriously difficult to predict. Which future shall we prepare them for? Star Trek or The Hunger Games?
How can we responsibly prepare students for whatever the future brings, knowing, as we must by now, that projections about the future are almost always wrong?
Below is a 22-minute speech I gave on Friday, December 14. 2012 at a meeting of the New Jersey Educational Computing Consortium, addressing just that question, beginning with the tale of a visitation from a very New Jersey kind of angel.
(Since I’m not very good at audio editing, the content begins 15 seconds in.)
Here are some links related to this post. Careful readers may note that some of these are essays originally published on Perfect Whole:
United Nations Releases Population Projections to 2100
Post-Apocalyptic Career Counseling, Part I
Post-Apocalyptic Career Counseling, Part II
Post-Apocalyptic Career Counseling, Part III
“Why K-12 Schools Are Failing By Not Teaching Search” by Jeff Utecht
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This is brilliant! WOW. And all true. Staggering.
Thanks, Fransi! I wasn’t sure anyone was going to want to listen to 22 minutes of non-stop Goldberg. Thanks for taking the time.
Good stuff, I enjoyed it.
Thanks for listening, Sean! Glad you liked it.
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No, thanks. Ugg stick with this Julie.
I think Ugg meant this for the post “The Other Julie Goldberg,” but Julie is always grateful for Ugg’s friendship and comments wherever they appear.