10/16/2018

The Skills Your Kids Will Need For The Future

They aren't coding

An education is supposed to prepare you for the future. Traditionally, that meant learning certain facts and skills, like when Columbus discovered America or how to do multiplication and long division. Today, curricula have shifted to focus on a more global and digital world, like cultural history, basic computer skills, and writing code.

Yet, the challenges that our kids will face will be much different from those we faced growing up, and many of the things a typical student learns in school today will no longer be relevant by the time he or she graduates college. In fact, a study at the University of Oxford found that 47 percent of today's jobs will be eliminated over the next 20 years.

In 10 or 20 years, much of what we "know" about the world will no longer be true. The computers of the future will not be digital. Software code itself is disappearing, or at least becoming far less relevant. Many of what are considered good jobs today will be either completely automated or greatly devalued. We need to rethink how we prepare our kids for the world to come.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Inc.