The future of learning is here. As schools and educators consider how to approach the rapidly changing realities of education, new research suggests children starting school today will graduate better prepared for their futures if they have a strong social and emotional foundation, developed in a personalised learning environment. This new research draws on multiple sources, including a collaboration between Microsoft and McKinsey & Company’s education practice and voices of the students themselves, rarely heard in most research. Find out how you and your school can stay on the cutting edge of the changing classroom and best prepare your students for success now and into the future.
Take an in-depth look at the findings of a study spanning over 2,000 teachers and students, 70 thought leaders, and 150 previously published studies that give us an indication of exactly what our students will be facing in the future and what we need to set in motion now to prepare them for that future.
Learners and learning take center stage - Life long learners
The ways people interact, socialize, and work are shifting rapidly. By the time the kindergartners of today become the graduates of 2030, the world will be vastly different from anything previous generations have experienced.
Unprecedented opportunities for many clearly a skill of change and continuous development to be at a center stage of our new Life Long Learners.
Opportunities for collaboration, the progressive automation of all types of jobs, employers demands for workers with more well rounded skills, and students desire and expectation to operate with autonomy and choice all indicate that our education system needs to prepare students for the future in a very different way than it has in the past.
This could present over 12 milion new roles. Technology is driving the creation of these new jobs for the majority. And as well as redefine the job functions of almost all other positions that are being automated. A total hours by activity type, Research Example in Millions of FTE hours, Midpoint of automation as exhibit shows as core fundamentals change.
Future jobs will require more application of expertise, non-routine physical tasks, interaction and management tasks.