Why?

You may be wondering why we focus so much on these entrepreneurial skills and mindsets. We firmly believe that the old "factory" approach to education is both outdated and inappropriate for today's economy and society.

Students need to develop the human skills of creativity, collaboration, empathy, understanding and problem solving to succeed. The H-Farm Pathway attempts to develop these skills through an entrepreneurial approach, that reflects the challenging situations our students will be presented with as they move out of education and into the workforce.

The resources below provide some background to how and why the world is changing, and why education needs to change with it.

Sir Ken Robinson & Creativity

This famous speech by Sir Ken Robinson, which has been animated for better visual understanding, discusses the traditional factory model of education and why it is no longer useful for student learning and development.

Industry 4.0

The "Fourth Industrial Revolution" reflects the next major shift in economic and industrial thinking. We are in the midst of this revolution now, with industry, economy and society rapidly transforming as a result.

We want our students to be proactive contributors to this new economy and not bystanders.

Source: esheninger.blogspot.com/2019/06/education-for-4th-industrial-revolution.html

What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

This video from the World Economic Forum provides a quick explanation of the industrial development since the original industrial revolution through to today.

Automation & Future Skills

This infographic provides some background to the next wave of automation and the sorts of thinking, personal, digital and job-specific skills that people will need to compete in the digital economy.

Source:esheninger.blogspot.com/2018/04/preparing-learners-for-fourth.html

Impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

This more detailed video from the World Economic Forum provides more context to how the fourth industrial revolution will change how we think about industry, the economy and society.

How Education Must Change

And lastly, this infographic compares the traditional first industrial revolution method of education to what is needed to suit the current fourth industrial revolution.

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What Humans Need to Flourish

Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them.

In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.

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