Geoff Mulgan - Learning to Innovate
Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive, NESTA Geoff discusses what he considers to be one the most important needs for innovation in schooling in the UK. He looks at the priority of bringing together two sets of problems, the challenge of large numbers of bored teenagers who just don't like school and can't see the relationship between what they learn at school and future jobs, and employers who complain that young people leaving school without necessary skills or right attitude. Geoff will consider a new form of schooling that focused its curriculum on real life practical projects working on commission to business, NGO's and others where the students have "coaches" as much as "teachers".
Presented at the Learning Without Frontiers Conference, 25th January, 2012.
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The problem lies in the yearly appraisal style of schooling which prohibits students innovation and creativity. It aims for better exam results but the students don't retain much of the information and find subjects boring because they are not taught to connect the dots between different subjects and how it all relates to one another. Such as the connections between all the sciences and maths or history, Geography, religion and literature. We got shifted from class to class and teacher to teacher All it did was narrow our options of education and work based on performance.
You can't make kids decide what they want to do so early in life and assign them a future career. This is just privatisation that will lead to competition by companies aimed at the better performing schools to "bagsey" potential future talent. The lesser performing schools will be given away to companies for future repetitive strain injury jobs.