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We Need to Educate Our Kids For the Living World We are Living In (Matt Britton) (Gen Y) (Gen Z)

Name: We Need to Educate Our Kids For the Living World We are Living In (Matt Britton) (Gen Y) (Gen Z)
Uploaded: 2018-10-17T03:30:14Z
Channel: Matt Britton
Description: Matt Britton argues that education must adapt to a technology-driven future by teaching children to code early (citing code.org) and by embracing online…

17 Oct 2018

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Matt Britton argues that education must adapt to a technology-driven future by teaching children to code early (citing code.org) and by embracing online learning models like MOOCs to democratize access. He critiques the traditional expensive four-year college model and emphasizes preparing students for where the world is headed rather than where it has been.

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.