How can the new generation leverage their digital knowledgeintheworkplace while learning to develop trusted relationships with coworkers and clients in a more traditional sense?
Too many of our students are not graduating from high school, and they never receive theknowledge and skills they need to be successful in higher education or intheworkplace.
Our educational system does not provide nearly enough to prepare our graduates for the skills and knowledge that companies require to succeed in a global workplace.
We are certainly beginning to challenge the notion of a classroom that was set up over 100 years ago inthe light of an industrial revolution, that required vast numbers of people to be filled up with knowledge to be thrown into theworkplace quickly, the smokestack school in more than one sense.
With such penalty-creep, the issue of punishment without proof of knowledge and intent suddenly becomes highly relevant to the lives of a broad array of individuals intheworkplace.
Late last year Intel published, The Future of Knowledge Work, a whitepaper resulting from extensive internal and external research and a Future of theWorkplace Summit held in Haifa, Israel.
Whereas schools used to be able to equip students with theknowledge and skills that would serve them for a working lifetime, this is no longer possible in a workplace characterized by continuous change in a competitive global environment.