Global Work Ethic by Alan November

I am listening for a second time to Alan November‘s podcast “Global Work Ethic“. The first time this morning on my way to work and now a second time at school during down time. This morning I flagged the podcast for a few quotes from Alan, that made me want to “make” my administrators listen to this short six minute audio file.

We are not producing children who are globally competitive. What does it mean to have global work ethics?
First time in history we are faced that our students over the course of their lifetime will loose their careers many times. Educators are faced now with the challenge of instilling in their students the desire and capabilities of life long learning.

November sees three skills that are absolutely essential, but are not taught in schools.

1. Capacity and skill to deal with overwhelming amount of information.
1. Access it
2. Organize it
3. Produce it
4. Make meaning out of it
5. Add value to it
6. Publish it
2. Global Communication
1. social protocols
2. different points of view
3. skills of team work and collaboration
3. Provide students with a culture of learning that leads them to be self directive
1. self assessing
2. inter-dependent learners
3. self motivating

Classroom needs to be used as global collaboration tool, not information tool. We need to be taught how to learn, not being taught how to be taught. A shift need to occur and more and more control needs to be moved towards the learner.

Download Alan November’s Global Work Ethic Podcast from here .