ABSTRACT
Technology is evolving ever-more rapidly, faster than our capacity to fully understand the social, cultural, economic, and moral implications of many innovations. Like other institutions, education systems are lagging behind the pace of change in the world of work as well as communication and other technologies. Whole industries and jobs are disappearing as new ones emerge, a trend likely to continue and accelerate. Emerging jobs require engaging with various technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, big data, and virtual reality. The pandemic has accelerated trends such as remote working and learning that also have major implications for education. In addition, social media is playing an increasingly significant role – sometimes constructive, sometimes destructive – in the lives of everyone, especially the youth who are rarely aware of the consequences of their online actions. Thriving in the future as citizens and workers increasingly reliant on technology will require cognitive and non-cognitive skills and dispositions such as a critical mindset and self-awareness that education systems and schools were not designed to nurture.
