General trends
- knowledge sector will continue to grow
- shortage of trained managers to direct computers (Peter Drucker)
- large concentration of workers in low-level dead-end jobs (Jeremy Rifkin)
- Technological displacement in other sectors
- Computers will
- substitute tasks requiring higher order thinking – like chess
- not substitute tasks requiring
- pattern recognition in highly unstructured environments
- interpreting of what is perceived with schemas or concepts stored in memory
- Standards based reform
- results of success in Massachusetts Murphy schools
- move away from facts recall
- move towards in-depth understanding of complex relationships
- Massachusetts Common Core
- literacy through ELA
- expert thinking through Math
Critical skill sets required in the future
- Expert thinking
- solving problems with no rule-based solution
- heavily reliance on pattern recognition
- Complex communication
- Listening skills
- heavy reliance on Empathy
To do in the future
- Reorganize work to take advantage of relative strengths of computers and people
External references
- The end of work,Jeremy Rifkin
- Clicks and Mortar, Malcolm Gladwell