Lifelong Learning: an EUropean answer for the World Digiti(al)zation
(texto preparatório para artigo na EAPM- março 2017) Technology is leading to massive changes in the economy, in the way we communicate and relate to each other, and increasingly in the way we learn. Yet our educational institutions were built largely for another age, based around an industrial rather than a digital era. (Bates, Tony. (2016). Teaching in a digital age) DIGITIZATION 2016 was a proficous year of events about the Future of jobs and the skills gap (say: learning responses). The impulse was largely born from: “ Could a robot do your job? T he World Economic Forum’s 2016 - Future of Jobs ( http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Future_of_Jobs.pdf ) study predicts that 5 million jobs will be lost before 2020 as artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology and other socio-economic factors replace the need for human workers. Millions of people who didn’t see automation coming will soon find out the painful way. The answer is a resounding yes.” This ...