Future of work: Preparing students when the map no longer holds
Skills Development
Every generation of educators receives the same warning, dressed in new vocabulary: the future of work is changing.
First, it was globalization. Then automation. Now, artificial intelligence.
Each wave arrives bearing forecasts, frameworks and fresh urgencies. And each time, we respond identically: by adding more skills to the curriculum, as though accumulation alone could outpace uncertainty.
Coding. Data literacy. AI literacy. Financial literacy. Design thinking. The list lengthens, swells, crowds itself out. Meanwhile, the future keeps sliding from beneath our feet.
