The Huffington Post – C. M. Rubin
“The UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, with their focus on People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnership, will depend on education to develop new curricula and competencies to achieve them (the 4th goal is an explicit goal for education). Many believe the new competencies needed to tackle the global issues will be harder to measure. Will education systems be ready, willing and able to make the changes needed?…When we look at the key skills that are in growing demand in future work life, but also needed to address societal challenges in the future, we can see that higher order skills are going to be needed. This means problem-solving, creativity, entrepreneurship and collaboration. Scientific and technical competence – including computational thinking – also continues to be an area where we need to prepare students more effectively.”(more)