Holiday listening: Three inspiring Future Skills Conversations with Andreas SCHLEICHER, Angela Duckworth and Tom Wambeke The end of the year is usually a time of looking back and forward – and one good way of being inspired for the next year is by listening to our podcast series “Future Skills Conversations”. The three episodes feature fascinating conversations from the "Creating the University of the Future" Open Access publication, edited by Laura Eigbrecht and me. “How can we educate for the future rather than for the past?” This is one of the questions addressed in our episode with Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills at the OECD and most famous for initiating the PISA programme. “How can we change the world through education?” is the central question in our episode with Angela Duckworth, Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, the founder of Character Lab and bestselling author, podcast host and creator of one of the most-viewed TED Talks of all time. “How can we create that coffee break moment in higher education?” Serendipity is at the core of our episode with Tom Wambeke, United Nations Senior Executive with a focus on learning innovation and digital transformation and Chief of Learning Innovation of the Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ILO). Curious? Listen to our “Future Skills Conversations” Podcast Series via https://lnkd.in/erpBrjsE and share your thoughts! 👇 NextEducation. Morgen machen. https://lnkd.in/djbiMCRQ Angela Duckworth, Tom Wambeke Max Senges, Judit Costa, Carmen Păunescu, Nicole Geier, Dr Kevin House, FCCT, FRSA,, Tara Laughlin, Ed.D, Grame Barty, Tom Wambeke, Keiko Ikeda, Marina Brunner, Abha Ahuja, Maia Averett, PhD, Megan Gahl, Raquel H Ribeiro, Miriam Green, Ye-Her WU,, Thanasis Daradoumis, Edwin Tan,., Wolfgang Stark, Henning Koch, Judith Koeritz, Dr. Felix Suessenbach, Andreas Wormland, Tobias Seidl Alexandros Chrysikos, PhD David Piesk, Florian Rampelt, Uli Weinberg, Tracy Kistner, Norbert Kunz, Peter Spiegel, Teddy Tewelde Manuela Mohr Uli Weinberg Annemieke Lais (Frank) Dominique Hamm
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Have you met Dr David Cropley? If not, read on (and hit listen)! In Episode 94, The Occupational Philosophers chat with David Cropley, PhD, a Professor of Engineering Innovation at the University of South Australia. He specialises in helping people and organisations become better, more effective, problem solvers. As with all our guests, he has done some most interesting stuff. 🙌 🍒 David is the author/co-author of 10 books including Creativity in Education: A User’s Guide for Educators, parents and Students (Hawker Brownlow, 2022) and The Psychology of Innovation in Organizations (Cambridge University Press, 2015). 🍒 His research includes the assessment of creativity and innovation in organisations, the role of creativity and innovation in terrorism and crime, and the nexus of creative problem-solving and engineering. Most recently, he has been researching the intersection of creativity and artificial intelligence. 🍒 David was a scientific consultant and on-screen expert for the Australian ABC TV Documentaries Redesign My Brain with Todd Sampson (2013), Life at 9 (2014) and Redesign My Brain, Series 2 (2015). In this episode, we explore: 🍄 The gap between creativity research and application 🍄 Whether David has built an intergalactic transporter or it’s still just an idea 🍄 How personality, motivations, past experience and environment affect our ability to be creative 🍄 What assessments provide the most holistic measure of creativity in individuals 🍄 What is ‘malevolent creativity’? 🍄 How we can cultivate creativity as a habit 🍄 Why creativity is like spinach….and why we need to start eating more of it! (And much, much more) You can listen wherever you get your podcasts and links to the show are in the comments below. Thanks as always to my co-host/co-producer in the UK, John Rice #AI #creativity #innovation #engineering #problemsolving #podcast #businesspodcast
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If you have an hour or so to spare over the weekend, you'd do well to queue up the latest "Great Simplification" podcast with Nate Hagens as he interviews Krista Tippett of the "On Being" podcast fame. (There's also a transcript if that suits.) Honestly, I was kind of floored at how deeply the conversation and themes resonated with the work Homa Sabet Tavangar and I have been doing at the BIG Questions Institute, starting with the episode's title: "Living the Questions: A Pathway Through the Unanswerable." Both Tippett and Hagens recognize the seriousness of the moment we're in and the challenges we collectively face to navigate this increasingly difficult and complex future we seem to be staring down. And both struggle to articulate an adequate response. Yet, they offer some powerful starting points for the journey. Without giving too much away, here are some key ideas that are also deeply animating to what Homa and I are doing in our work with schools around the world: * These times call for deep, "aching" questions without feeling a need to rush to answers. Answers come from "inhabiting" or living the questions with patience. * We have to be honest and open as to the seriousness of our predicament. "Hope looks reality in the face." * We are entering a liminal, "In-between" time when many of our time-worn institutions and ways of living on the planet are breaking, but we don't yet know what might replace them. * We must move from separation and individualism to a deep sense of relationship and connection with one another and with nature. * Exercising and expanding our imaginations is a key aspect of creating a future we want to live in. * We must ask, "What does it mean to be a 'good ancestor' for future generations? * "Transformation" starts with the individual, not with the system. * Real, lasting change is 10 years in the making. We must lengthen our timelines. * In education, we are now called to ask the question, "What is the purpose of schools and schooling for these times? There's a lot more to digest and consider. And lots to unpack in terms of schooling's role in all of this. Wondering what might resonate for you.
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