Skills for the Future generation

I was once asked :

1. What skills will students need for the future and why?

2. Will they be mindfulness or technology driven?

3. How will you teach them?

4. How are the skills students will need changing compared to the past?

 According to me..the skills students will need for the future will be soft skills :- of communication, collaboration, research orientation ,investigation, and reflections. As we do need to connect with the work beyond ours.We keep saying the world is be coming a smaller place to live in to that end ...humans need to connect and collaborate.With resources getting used ,overused and abused we will need to reflect on our role in the global community ,how we can positively contribute and look into solutions facing the world collectively.We must agree and adhere to collective measures to peace and coexistence and avoid conflict .

I am hoping and I think it will happen that there will a upward movement towards use of technology. But then at the end of the day one will be mindful of effective use of technology , and not let TECHNOLOGY use us.After,all  with the advancement and progress of the world , one will need to pace up with everyday changes.But care has to taken that  we are mindful of the negative and positive impact of technology ;it will be essential for us to work around technology in an effective way , mindful of how much of  a carbon footprint are we leaving behind.Skills will be taught through the curriculum injecting activities that would lead to a holistic approach to both the content and life skills enhancement in teaching and learning practices. By injecting the action Component in the teachers planning and guiding .
By creating Modules to share with the students as activities during the form group lessons.

Where I teach ,at Pathways school have a weekly lesson with our form groups where in we discuss ethics ,values, social issues with our children and this is right from grade 1-12.We also make it a point to start the day with a 5-8 minutes routine activities on Mindfulness with our students.

The different challenges faced by the students then and now are significantly different. The stiff competition, opening up of new horizons,the global connection, the rapidly changing phases of technology, the levels of engagement of human resources in jobs and cropping up of certain jobs which don't exist now - are all the signs of "CHANGE" and thus we need to prepare our students to be adapting to the various changes.They must be trained to be caring thinkers who will constantly inquire about the right and wrong of the society so that they are principled and balanced decision makers with an open mindedness and risk taking ability to accept people from all walks of life and all countries -being part of the global community and reflect effectively on their role in the scheme of things as they will be from time to time subjected to different situations, so that they communicate all their learning and understanding in a knowledgeable manner.