GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers

If for nothing else than the future of your children, take 12 minutes to watch this.

If you agree, then thriving in the 4th industrial revolution will require nothing short of restructuring public education at all levels, not just k-12. Even doctors will need to change how they educate their young. How many things can you do with a paperclip?

Many not for profits are directing their efforts to provide equitable access to public education. However, putting more students in a broken, dysfunctional system won’t yield the outcomes and impact we want. Instead, the very structure and process of education will need to change if we are to provide students with the knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies they need for jobs that have yet to be created.

What’s more, unless we address the gender social and cultural stereotypes, the 4IR could make gender inequity worse, not better.

One goal should be to create entrepreneurial schools and universities, and by that I don’t mean teaching children how to start businesses. Instead, creating the entrepreneurial mindset is about the pursuit of opportunity with scarce resources with the goal of creating user defined value through the deployment of innovation. Creating a successful business in but one of many ways to do that.

Here are 10 different ways to encourage youth entrepreneurship. The same techniques might apply to graduate students as well.

Other learning objective and curriculum themes are emerging:

1. Encouraging private, public and academic collaboration to define market based competencies
2. Teaching horizontally, not vertically, in limiting smokestack domains
3. Developing soft skills that are in high demand
4. Experience cultural competence, diversity and inclusion
5. Alternative pathways for teacher training and development
6. Job searching techniques that are state of the art
7. Mandatory experiential learning opportunities
8. Developing and testing alternative intelligence measures
9. Replacing memorization with creative problem solving, problem seeking and divergent thinking.
10. Hiring for creativity and finding and supporting educational reform champions
11. Like sick care, recognizing and addressing the socioeconomic determinants of academic failure, like housing, illness, disability and nutrition.
12. Rehabilitating the brand image of teachers
13. Teaching STEAMpathIE and rethink STEM as BMETALS
14. Preparing students for the jobs of the future that have not yet been created.
15. Teach them how to work in and manage virtual international teams.

Here’s another short list:

1 public speaking

2 writing well

3 storytelling (see 1-2)

4 critical thinking (not cynicism)

5 good manners

6 active listening (hear with your eyes)

7 networking (trust and giving)

8 good customer service

9 how to sell

10 to fight against entitlement

Here is how intrinsic motivation will have to replace extrinsic motivation: autonomy, mastery, purpose

Here is how automation will affect economies around the world.

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