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Educate Generation Z For The World We Are Living in Tomorrow By Matt Britton Keynote Speaker

Name: Educate Generation Z For The World We Are Living in Tomorrow By Matt Britton Keynote Speaker
Uploaded: 2018-10-31T01:36:18Z
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Description: Matt Britton (keynote) argues education must adapt to prepare children for a computerized future. He supports teaching coding to young kids (citing Mark…

31 Oct 2018

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Matt Britton (keynote) argues education must adapt to prepare children for a computerized future. He supports teaching coding to young kids (citing Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and code.org) and criticizes the exclusive, debt-heavy four-year college model. He endorses MOOCs and online learning as democratizing forces that can broaden access to high-quality education.

We need to educate kids for the world that we're living in. Mark Zuckerberg says the language of code is going to be more powerful than the language of English in 15 years. I agree with that. Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are behind something called code.org, which teaches kids as young as age 7 to learn an hour of code each week. That is fabulous. That's being pushed throughout public and private schools throughout the United States. Kids need to learn code at an early age, but because everything's becoming computerized, we need to kind of get our grips of where the world is headed, not where it is. And the education system of people getting into debt for four years with these expensive colleges, I also think are going away. MOOC's massive online open courses, which allow the best professors in the world from Harvard and MIT to teach millions of people at once online, that's powerful. It's actually democratizing education. It's giving people opportunity all over the place. And right now, the education system is still somewhat exclusive and leaves people out. So I think education has to change.