Education and accelerated change: The imperative for design learningThis is were the authors of the article are generally correct, but nothing said here is anything but completely obvious.
The truth is that we can no longer afford to focus on graduating learners armed only with predetermined skills and (already existing) knowledge. The workforce is becoming far too global, too digital, and increasingly too self-employed. We must instead refocus on cultivating creativity, to include not only problem solving, but also problem finding and problem framing.
Here's where they're wrong and this shows a fundamental failure to understand where we are as a society.
When anything mentally routine or predictable can be reduced to an algorithm, it signals the need for a shift in our learning systems around adapting to change. As we move from the Information Era into the Augmented Era, demand is growing for a profound shift of focus at all levels of formal education (i.e., K-12, higher education, and workforce development).
SOCIETY AS A WHOLE HAS NOT YET ENTERED THE INFORMATION AGE! Corporations are still fighting to keep us in the Industrial Age (mostly by defending old intellectual property systems - copyright, trademark, patent - but also by attempting to dominate discourse through censorship as we see with efforts by YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to silence people with disruptive points of view). Most individuals still think from an Industrial Age perspective. We simply have not yet entered the Information Age. This idea of the "augmented age" is just a small part of what the Information Age is all about. A necessary part of the Information Age is that we develop ways of dealing with huge amounts of information. That's where data mining, machine learning, and various forms of artificial intelligence come to play. This article is based on an incorrect set of assumptions and is mostly geared towards selling what they call "design thinking" which is nothing but some entrepreneur's idea of a way to take advantage of gullible idiots (who have no clue what the Information Age is really all about ) and make money off them.
LINK:
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2016/09/14/education-and-accelerated-change-the-imperative-for-design-learning/