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Insights into The Future of Education

Insights May 27th, 2016

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On May 26th, 2016 Nikolas Badminton spoke about the future of education at the Annual BC Association of School Board Officers (BCASBO).
His talk inspired and enlightened the attendees and he discussed the failed promise of technology in education, rise of mobile as a world disruptor, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, The Sharing Economy, Artificial Intelligence, and new educational models.
Nikolas also made some bold predictions of what will happen by 2030:

      1. Children are encouraged to be free-thinking and have time to develop themselves.
      2. There are fewer ‘teachers’ and far more ‘mentors’ with parents, families, siblings, and community leaders all playing a role.
      3. Multiple educational models, based on personalized learning,  are available to fit children’s needs, and are on-demand both on and offline.
      4. All parts of schooling is optimized using algorithms, interconnected systems, Big Data in the cloud, and A.I.
      5. A.I. ‘Lifetime Learning Companions’ will be the norm and available on current and legacy smartphone technologies.

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Nikolas Badminton is a world-respected futurist speaker that researches, speaks, and writes about the future of work, how technology is affecting the workplace, how workers are adapting, the sharing economy, and how the world is evolving. He appears at conferences in Canada, USA, UK, and Europe. Email him to book him for your radio, TV show, or conference.

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Nikolas Badminton

Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is world-renowned futurist speaker, a Fellow of The RSA (FRSA), a media personality, and has worked with over 400 of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and design equitable futures for all. In his new book – ‘Facing Our Futures’ – he challenges short-term thinking and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to ignite curiosity, create a framework for futures exploration, and shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF…

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