by Asli
28. April 2010 23:17
April 13, 2010, LEGO Idea Conference : Bilund, Denmark. Scientists, academics, and technology innovators from around the world gathered at LEGO headquarters for the LEGO Idea Summit. The concept was innovation through the increasingly integrated worlds of technology and building using the imagination. The commonalities and analogies between LEGO, software and building architecture were highlighted in the sessions.
In both the enterprise, private sector and consumer space we clearly face a massive influx of information. And with that comes a lot of noise. How do we handle this? Education and re-educating our educators.
Richard Stephens, SVP, Human Resources & Administration for the Boeing Company describes the skills re-tooling challenge brought on by technology. His concern? That today’s youth need to be better equipped for the uncertainty of tomorrow’s problems. (Little did he know an educated workforce would be scratching their heads stymied about quite the uncertain problem a mere 2 days later.)
“Today’s education system of knowledge transfer is not equipped for problem solving. Information learning is not the issue.” Information is all too easy to find. Education needs to be more about teaching the skills for intelligent decision making.
He continues “Excellence in the future workforce will be defined not by memorized data and information but by capacity and capability, driven by imagination and creative intelligence.”
“We are attempting to educate and prepare students (hire people in the workforce) today so that they are ready to solve future problems, not yet identified, using technologies not yet invented, based on scientific knowledge not yet discovered.”
Professor Joseph Lagowski, University of Texas at Austin
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