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Foundation Skills In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence

Foundation skills in the age of Artificial Intelligence

  • February 23, 2023
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 8 Comments

A little more than three years ago the Grand Rapids Public Museum hosted Outsmarting the Robots: Redesigning education from the classroom to the halls of Lansing. The conference was organized around the question “How do we redesign our system for learning to build the 21st…

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The Urgency Of Imagination For Schooling Redesign

The urgency of imagination for schooling redesign

  • September 30, 2021
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Feature, Talent
  • 0 Comments

Success in today’s and tomorrow’s economy is largely dependent on having a set of skills that are critical in today’s workplace. At Michigan Future, we’ve been using a framework articulated by learning scientists Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Golinkoff for these…

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Turning A K-shaped Economy Into An Economy That Benefits All

Turning a K-shaped economy into an economy that benefits all

  • April 16, 2021
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Shared Prosperity
  • 0 Comments

K-shaped economy is how many describe our economy since the pandemic. And most expect the recovery to be K-shaped as well. The reality is that the Michigan economy was K-shaped pre-pandemic. With those at the top doing well, but far…

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What Are And How To Teach 21st Century Skills

What are and how to teach 21st century skills

  • November 17, 2020
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

A little more than a year ago the Grand Rapids Public Museum hosted Outsmarting the Robots: Redesigning education from the classroom to the halls of Lansing. The conference was organized around the question "how do we redesign our system for…

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Report From “Outsmarting The Robots”: Part 2

Report from “Outsmarting the Robots”: Part 2

  • December 13, 2019
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

Last week I wrote about "Outsmarting the Robots: Redesigning education from the classroom to the halls of Lansing," an event we co-hosted in October with a number of great partners in Grand Rapids. (Click here for that part 1). Today…

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A Liberal Arts Degree Leads To A Good-paying Career

A liberal arts degree leads to a good-paying career

  • October 16, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

We are constantly besieged with messaging that a liberal arts degree is useless. Maybe even worse than useless: a path to being a pauper or something close. Stuck in low-paying work that leaves you unable to pay off the loans…

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Employers Increasingly Prefer Generalists Over Specialists

Employers increasingly prefer generalists over specialists

  • July 31, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 0 Comments

All of a sudden there is lots being written about the trend of employers hiring generalists more than specialists. What is so disturbing is the disconnect between this reality and way too many policymakers pushing our education and training providers…

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GM Needs Rock Climbing Engineers

GM needs rock climbing engineers

  • November 16, 2018
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 4 Comments

A recent Detroit Free Press article entitled GM's job cuts shift to a new kind of worker needed is worth checking out. It is a pretty dramatic example of the reality that––even for those with STEM degrees (in this case engineers)––the…

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Needed For All: Education For Losing Job(s)

Needed for all: education for losing job(s)

  • February 9, 2018
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 0 Comments

Must-read Linkedin column by Heather E. McGowan entitled Preparing Students to Lose Their Job. It is the best description I have read on the need to change the mission of education from one that prepares people for a job to one that…

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Google Finds STEM Skills Aren’t The Most Important Skills

Google finds STEM skills aren’t the most important skills

  • January 5, 2018
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Transforming Work
  • 133 Comments

Terrific Washington Post column on research done by Google on the skills that matter most to its employees success. Big surprise: it wasn't STEM. The Post writes: Sergey Brin and Larry Page, both brilliant computer scientists, founded their company on the conviction…

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