I got into trouble in accepting
to talk about what’s next of the future
of training here in a curtain for three
reasons 1 because it came after this
magnificent intervention of refined two
because innovation in education e
in training it is a very theme
frequented in the ted circuit
I’m sure you’ve been here two minutes
you will begin to make the comparison between the
my kind the very famous one of ken
robinson his 50 million
views but I do not know what to tell you
I will do my best
the third reason is that the debate
on training its innovation e
incomprehensible we say everything and the
contrary to everything
some say that in the economy
of knowledge to that in which we live
that of services that of works ad
high intensity of creativity that
of innovation studying is important
it is always more but it must be done
in radically different ways than
what we have been able to do in the system
traditional education we must say yes
no more focus on the transmission
of knowledge and notions but give to
our young people to our boys
the skills of the twelfth century la
problem solving in ability to
work in a group to tame them almost
to the dynamics that they will find in the world
of work as soon as they finish their own
do you study
on the other hand the fundamental knowledge in the
mathematics of the physics of the letters
of history we can find them
free on the internet in huge
portals full of video lessons
on the other side there are the pessimists
those who claim that studying does not
you need that much and that you study
too much is even useless
some numbers seem to give them reason
I quote you some figures just to give you the
dimension in the American economy
it is estimated that only 20 percent of the
new jobs created require
a degree most of the new posts
jobs that are created require
a high school diploma
even titles at a more level
low there is another statistic that me
it strikes a lot that says that for
every job as a programmer by
developer that is created come from it
created three others
for individuals who go to blow up
the burgers of mcdonald’s david gray
bear an important English anthropologist
he made a merciless analysis of the
Today’s labor market has seen that
there are millions of individuals a lot
preparations that perform tasks
repetitive jobs substantially lacking
of useless sense and are aware of the
fact that their trade does not give any
contribution to humanity
he calls them with a rather label
how to say effective bush jobs jobs of
shit now in this debate me how
person who in education in the
training works there daily me
I feel in difficulty there are hundreds
of more or less authoritative voices that
they say that what I do is not necessary
it should be done radically
different than the places where I do it
they should be razed to the ground and reinvented
But I also tell you that in the last
years as saying having faith in mine
I have reflected a lot on what I have done
means doing didactic on what
it means to teach
I practiced the new and mixed it with
the good one that is there and it is so ve
I guarantee the old man I am
especially compared with tens
hundreds of colleagues in mine
universities in other universities and in
schools of different order and
degree
and I will tell you one thing about the formation of the
future is already here training
that prepares young people for our future
it’s here and now and we’re practicing it in
I’ll tell you many stories inspired by
a personal experience and yet
distilling also what he has learned
talking to these people these mine
colleagues I met during
this path
my personal experience and that of
having built a workshop coordinated
at the university foscari which is called
active learning lab
we take students that
they come from all our different ones
graduate humanities disciplines
economic science we put them
together and we put them in front of the
companies, public bodies or even
manifestations of civil society that
they ask them to face challenges
very ambitious and very far-sighted in
six weeks in these students are
called to mobilize
the knowledge that they have acquired in the
their study paths and to create some
innovative solutions here starting from
this experimentation but I repeat it to you
they are really many and not only coordinated
from me it is clearly I feel like
distilling the portrait of the training
not of the future but of the formation that
here and now prepares our young people at
I will do this picture later
using three objections 3
oppositions that recur very much
often in the debate on education
on training the first is the
very dangerous in my opinion
contraposition between knowledge and emotions
on the one hand and skills on the other
the idea that the school should renounce the
keep and transmit to new ones
generations the knowledge we have
accumulated in decades and centuries of
humanistic reflection research for
to teach creativity the problem
I find it dangerous for two
reasons the first I am a flyer
nervous a nerve flyer and whenever
I am on a plane 10 kilometers in height
there is no creativity that I can hope for
strongly that those who designed
that plane was obsessively master
of the laws of physics of the laws of
flight and the laws that govern them
perturbations of creativity without the
possession of the fundamentals of the notions
we will call them risks being one
useless display is possible either
to arrive at solutions by exercising
creativity but then discover that
someone had arrived before us
school then in a little school the system
educational can no longer give up
today I am facing the challenge
gigantic can no longer give up
transmit the knowledge we have
accumulated over time because we all
together we breathe we share
the oxygen of this earth with millions
of individuals who today in 2017 believe in
plots of all kinds still think
that the earth is flat they believed in the
stamina method and do not have the most
pale difference of the paleest one
idea of the difference between
coincidence and causality do not exist
we can more allow
certainly teach the notions the knowledge goes
adapted to the times
certainly it is important to connect them with the
reality also because our young people
they learn what the conditions are
validity of knowledge
there are no major revolutions to make
no need to throw the heart over
the obstacle is easy, I tell you from here
this gentleman is called kevin here
parker teaches harvard he was born in the
south carolina and have them an obsession
the barbecue for them a region it
teaches the fundamentals of the physics of
harvard chemistry asking its own
students to design the barbecue in
able to cook the perfect steak
perfect in terms of durability
superficial softness taste and flavor
they do it designing barbecues while
they learn how cooking works too
in our laboratories in ca foscari
things similar to ours happen
students were asked to derive
something new from some scraps of
coffee processing have surprised them
businesses pulling out balls into
able to separate, for example, materials
oily and water to decontaminate the
sites have always created from waste
of a powder of coffee
we did not try it in the classroom
I wanted to avoid the headlines
up to 8 explodes ca foscari though
validated out worked then yes
it is about finding a balance between the
to know and to accompany it to know how to do it
second contrast is that between
the physical and the digital between
the individual and the social the idea that
we can learn anything
free and democratically pulling
down videos from the internet and
the search is fascinating but dangerous
pedagogical in the last 30 years has
clearly demonstrated that you learn and
we create new knowledge by sharing
physical places creating relationships too
emotionally very demanding being
sure of their knowledge but being
willing to be surprised to learn
through the knowledge of others
the challenge then that we have and we for
example ca foscari putting together
student researchers entrepreneurs
experts and technicians in these laboratories
is to go beyond school and
the university as closed systems in
classes and create communities
that innovate and learn
together each one sure of his knowledge
but everyone willing to learn from
others
the last opposition I wanted
stop that the most important mind
good is what is between autonomy and
docility I confess it even if I am
a professor of economics
I confess that every time I hear
say that the school and the university
they should prepare for work
they frighten I hear too often say
that we should let our people learn
students the jobs they serve
businesses today I feel less often say
that our task is to
train hungry young people
able to take organizations
public administrations
the society as a whole e
turn everything around like a sock for
prepare it for the future and yet think about it
I see them when I’m in the classroom
they are subjected to hundreds of stimuli
they mix what they know with what
they learn and come from different worlds
from the research that is done in the
United States in China in India and elsewhere
in other words, the bridge is more
effective between today and tomorrow, however, the
we educators make the difference
and we as a society what our
expectations we expect them to take up
a niche in a game already defined
we are expecting god we want to give them the
margin to build their future
now with these three oppositions in
very fast way I gave you the three
elements that allow me to create the
portrait of what I believe is
education that prepares for the future and that
it exists here and now to create a balance
between knowledge is to accompany knowledge
to create communities that learn
together going over the school the
educational system as a closed system
also have the humility to teach ai
our young people dare to think that
the world is not their future
it is not given but that they can build it
now I can not tell you whether to find
work and above all to be happy
in the near future our young people
they have to study physics mathematics
the letters the coding or any other
what’s going on in fashion though as I do not know
I trust you do not know so many
as always, the future is indecipherable
illegal
when we talk about education instead of a
I always like to go back to poetry
that I love so much written by a figure
I admire a lot of sweet danilo
according to which education and doing
growing people is a matter of
dream
we have a responsibility to do
grow our young dreaming of them
how we must dream of ours
responsibility is to see them in the
their future in the first instance like
individuals and competent citizens
non-technical responsible docile in
second beat we must dream of them like
passionate individuals who put on
I work my own knowledge and that together
they renew the world in which they live in which
they work in which they love and stay
along with other people in the third
we must dream of them as individuals
that really want it in the world
break up and reassemble as you like and like
to them or however how they feel will be
just rather than seeing them jostle
between them to occupy a box in
a chessboard that we already have
rigidly defined here is this school
this university not of the future but
that prepares young people for the future is here
and the invitation is to go to
visit to see why you will understand and
you will see that the experiments of this
they are so many
Thank you
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