FUTURE TRENDS IN EDUCATION

The World of the DotComs & Ferals

Annimac

Futurist

Anni Macbeth

Annimac Consultants

Perth Western Australia

(618) 9384 0687

annimac@annimac.com.au

www.annimac.com.au

CONSIDER the rate of change . . . .

Every 15 seconds a new web site is launched

Every 15 minutes a new technology breakthrough occurs

Every 15 days a totally new product or service is born.

We choose from 127 kinds of bread.

We choose from 4 buttons on the toilet cistern.

We have a least 3 phone numbers. Plus fax.

We are 3 seconds from anywhere with a phone line.

21^st Century : THREE LABELS :

1. CENTURY of the PACIFIC
2. CENTURY of HEALING
3. CENTURY of the FEMININE (RIGHT BRAIN)

THREE KEY WORDS :

1. Passion

2. Responsibility

3. Dignity

THREE KEY DRIVERS OF CHANGE :

1. CONSUMER Driven Economy

2. KNOWLEDGE Driven Value Shift

3. GLOBAL TRADE Power Shift

and DRIVING ALL DRIVERS OF CHANGE :

1. Technology

2. Technology

3. Technology !

We are in the 3^rd Great Economic Revolution :

1. Agrarian

2. Industrial

3. Technological

All political economic social & cultural life is changed by technology.

70 % of jobs in 2020 do not exist now

because

80 % of technology of 2020 is not invented yet.

Technology & Education :

• Whose world are we educating for ?
• Young raised with technology do not defer to traditional authority : Death of Deference
• Respect must be earned by honesty, passion, consistency, integrity.
• Children now know more about the delivery system of education than most teachers.
• As a 5 yr old said, after her first day of school : I am only going to school until it's on CD-ROM.
• IT & knowledge accelerating : 95% of knowledge of our brain discovered in past 10 yrs.
  

IN OUR INFORMATION / TECHNOLOGY SATURATED ENVIRONMENT

REQUIREMENTS for TEACHING

from Net discussion with Michael Gurstein, Canada

Not to replace our basic set of skills ( 3R's)

but to

add a set of complex / conceptual skills

 

We must also know how to

• manage
• construct
• deconstruct

information and knowledge at a CONCEPTUAL level

 

So we can

make sense

of what we are doing

with ITs

So we can control ITs

and how they

structure our relationship

with others and with the

physical world.

Young are developing such skills

spontaneously and

intuitively.

We need to catch up

or get out of their way

or help them systematize

what they sense.

THRIVERS IN 21^ST CENTURY

(Adapted from P Ellyard)

Key to 21^st C : Passion Responsibility Dignity

21^st Century GENERATIONAL TRENDS

THE EIGHT MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES :

Howard Gardner

1. Linguistic : word smart
2. Logical-mathematical : number / reasoning smart
3. Spatial : picture smart
4. Bodily-Kinaesthetic : body smart
5. Musical : music smart
6. Interpersonal : people smart
7. Intrapersonal : self smart
8. Naturalist : nature smart
   

CONSIDER :

• Standard IQ tests measure 1 and 2 .
• Traditional classrooms focus on 1 and 2 .
• Future requires more 6 , 7 and 8 .

Wed 8 May 2003 12:12 What should our schools be doing?

NATALIE SAID . . .

Teach children HOW to learn, not what to learn! Teach them how to ask questions and make informative decisions. Teach them to trust their intuition. Teach them magic!

Bring back writing lines. Not as a punishment, but as reinforcement of their being. Have them write positive things about themselves. "I am beautiful, I am worthy of love, My future is positive and bright!!!" - over and over and over.

Teach them about the big picture. That they are all part of each other. That we are all part of the earth and it is also part of us. What we do to others, we do to ourselves.

And finally, the three R's :

Respect for yourself, Respect for others, and Responsibility for your actions.

Cheers, Natalie

( Natalie became a quadriplegic at age 8 when she fell off her bicycle and broke her neck. She is a Can Do person working for a better world. )

 

OUR CHANGING

20TH CENTURY : SCIENTIFIC VIEW	21ST CENTURY : TRADITIONAL VIEW
Nature is wild, savage, wasteland	Nature is holy, sacred, alive
Man needs to dominate	Man spiritually within nature
Land is property to be commercially divided	Land is origin and unity of life
Nature is source of exploitable commodities	Man is responsible for harmony of nature
Man extracts all unilaterally	Man reciprocates by giving back to nature
Violations made vague, uncertain by science	Man's violations of nature of serious concern
Universe as mostly static physical objects	Universe elusive interplay of natural forces
Science will explain all eventually	Nature not fully knowable by rational mind
Language is aggressive & manipulative	Language is gentle & accommodating
Sense of separateness from other life forms	Sense of kinship, empathy with all life forms
Sense of superiority over other life forms	Each species has rich gifts & powers
Religious beliefs above nature	Religious beliefs within and level with nature
Knowledge removed from, ignores experience	Knowledge based on long life experience
Scientists agree on truths of natural world	Natural world determines truths.
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INTRODUCING : ANNI MACBETH

FUTURIST & PRINCIPAL of ANNIMAC CONSULTANTS

Describing the changing face of our world up to 30 years from now is the speciality of trend forecaster and futurist Anni Macbeth, also known as Annimac.

With a foot firmly set in the future, Annimac - who heads Annimac Consultants - is currently commanding immense corporate, government, and community attention for her strong clear views on the political, economic, social, and cultural changes impacting us now and how we must operate for a healthy sustainable future.

Business, government, education, the professions - the Establishment in general - come in for fiery criticism for being Jurassic, not moving with the times into this 21st century, and not paying attention to the immense changes, particularly in values and attitudes, already occurring around us.

Annimac works with business, government, and community groups to shift their thinking, to understand what the future may bring, and to gain new knowledge on how to successfully thrive in these challenging times.

She has spent more than 37 years in six countries building up a highly respected background in new venture creation, psychology, education, hi-tech innovation, media, arts management, executive management and now future trends.

In Australia since 1970, Annimac has been recognised for her achievements by Who's Who in Australia and overseas since 1983. Having for years had her own column in the Perth's weekly newspaper Business News and appearing regularly on ABC radio, Annimac now communicates to the world with her online newsletter, The Trendsletter, through her website www.annimac.com.au. The website also provides Annimac's seminar and presentation notes for your use.

Annimac's lively workshops, seminars, presentations and consultancies, plus her Executive Coaching, show top management and the rest of us how to turn corporate and personal anarchy into healthy chaos. How to manage change, to gear up for the future and become the organisations and people we want to be, while always finding the win-win-win outcome with passion, responsibility and dignity.

As Annimac says: Resisting change is like holding your breath - if you succeed, you die.

Please feel very welcome to contact me at :

Annimac Consultants annimac@annimac.com.au

Ph 618 9384 0687 www.annimac.com.au

PO Box 2040 Claremont Western Australia 6910

PROFILE : ANNI MACBETH

FUTURIST & PRINCIPAL of ANNIMAC CONSULTANTS

• BA(Murd) in : Communication Studies; World Cultures
• AdvancedCertEducation(UBC) in: Education; Psychology
• dob: 1,6,46
• citizen: Australia, Canada. Residency based in Perth since 1970.

Professional Experience :

• Clients and Projects Lists available separately
• In management & education, 30+ years, 5 countries
• International consultancy established: 1986, Perth, Western Australia
• Long term Big Picture planning, innovation, & change management consulting in:
• futures studies
• urban & community development
• human services provision
• civic & cultural facilities
• new venture creation
• high technology development
• film & media
• education
• multicultural affairs
• management reengineering
• Career & Life Strategist; Executive Coach
• Lecturer : 2 Universities, 19 academic publications, in Media, Law, Management, Social Sciences
• Held senior management positions in : Human Services, Urban Planning, Media, Education, Community Development, Arts Administration, Technology Innovation, Yachting, Futures Planning.
• Columnist : Business News, weekly business newspaper, Perth, WA -5 yrs
• Guest Presenter : ABC Radio.

Memberships & Appointments :

Current:

• Asia Pacific Information Technology Innovation Awards –Judge
• Chinese Chamber of Commerce
• Chung Wah Association
• Festival of Perth - Life Member
• National Association for Female Executives, New York
• Tura Events Ltd - Company Director
• Totally Huge New Music Festival - Board Member
• University of Western Australia Extension -Board Member
• Women in Technology
• World Harmony Foundation -Board Member

Previous:

• Artists Foundation of WA - Founding Board
• Business & Professional Women's Association - Founding Board Member
• Central Metropolitan College TAFE -Founding Governing Council
• Community Education Centre Fremantle - Founding Board
• Film & Television Institute WA - Founding Board
• Fly By Night Club : Birukmarri Gallery : Ozpuppets - Founding Board
• Joondalup Foundation & Trust - Founding member
• Lance Holt School - Founding Member
• Senate, Murdoch University - Founding member
• WA Technology & Industry Advisory Council -Member
• WA Young Filmmakers Annual Festival - Founding Board

Honours :

• Who's Who in Australia ................................................................... since 1983
• International Who's Who of Contemporary Achievers .......................... 1984
• International Who's Who of Business & Professional Women ............ 1986
• Adjunct Fellow, John Curtin International Institute ..................... since 1998
• Debrett's Peerage.

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