How to Robot Proof Your Child's Future
As artificial intelligence creates economic disruption, what skills will students need to be successful in the future?
Being able to see the big picture and do complex systems thinking. Emotional intelligence, including empathy and intuition. The ability to dream up creative new ideas. The ability to build, test, and refine your ideas. And most importantly, the ability to learn new things and adapt to new situations.
These are the skills our graduates are known for at Cedarwood Waldorf School, and they’re what our teachers help them develop through a joyful, holistic, creative, and artistic approach to learning.
Marty Neumeier, author of Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age, says these five highly human abilities are the best bulwark against future business or career obsolescence:
Feeling: empathy & intuition
Seeing: seeing how the parts fit the whole picture (a.k.a. systems thinking)
Dreaming: applied imagination, to think of something new
Making: Creativity, design, prototyping and testing
Learning: learning how to learn (the opposable thumb of all other Metaskills)
These skills are at the heart of human-centered design thinking, and complement the five discovery skills of outperforming disruptive innovators identified in the Innovator's DNA: Questioning, observing, associating, experimenting and networking.
Read more about how these skills can help robot proof your child’s future on Inc.com.
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Why Waldorf? At Cedarwood, each student’s imagination is continually nurtured by a team of teachers and a broad spectrum of experiential learning opportunities as they develop their capacity for growth, creativity, and critical thinking. The curriculum is comprehensive and designed to educate the whole child, with lessons in math, science, language arts, history, geography, music, eurythmy, handwork, movement, and not one but two world languages, Spanish and Japanese. Art is not taught separately in our elementary program, but rather imbues students’ understanding of every single subject they encounter.
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