The Context: Young Disruption

Episode 9 October 18, 2019 00:20:58
The Context: Young Disruption
The Context Podcast - David Orban
The Context: Young Disruption

Oct 18 2019 | 00:20:58

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Show Notes

What is the right age to introduce children to the disruptions hitting our society?

Shouldn't we, rather than talking to executives or people who are founding startups actually target high schoolers or even earlier, children in elementary school?

They would then understand the power of exponential technologies and what is happening in society sooner rather than later.

How can we achieve an educational system that is able to admit its own ignorance, that is able to experiment in front of the unknown, putting teachers and students potentially on the same level in front of the task of decoding our interactions with new technologies, and new ways of acquiring, managing and deploying knowledge?

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