4th Industrial Revolution

Thinking Tools achieved new heights and insight.

Self-regulated learning is now replaced by self-educated learning.

Thinking Tools is a dynamic thinking and communication means which empowers learners to engineer and master knowledge, gain insight and solve problems in self-educated ways.

Because of the unique approach, experience taught…[Read more]

The choice is yours.

The more teachers I train, the more I find that they are trained to teach children who are not struggling.

Once a child does not understand, they use the same method which already failed the child – they re-explained – only slower and better.

Notwithstanding this, the numbers of children in different classes who do not understanding do not d…[Read more]

It is learners who are spoon-fed with PowerPoint sides and therefore not empowered to seek facts themselves.

The more I work with teachers trained in Thinking Tools, the more I notice the difference in their students.

When the education system does the wrong things right, society is very unforgiving.

If you have a voice in education decisions and still believe in Bloom’s Taxonomy, this YouTube clip on the 4IR gyro approach towards teaching and learning may surprise you.

4IR teaching and learning

“Education needs a total ‘face-lift’; the entire education environment, from pre-school to post-graduate education, needs to be re-imagined and aligned with emerging skills requirements. One of the key imperatives to both escape the Dead-end scenario and to achieve the Accomplished Game Changers scenario is a total re-haul of the education / tra…[Read more]

[email protected] published my article on: Preparing the workforce for the fourth Industrial Revolution.
Topics covered include:
Changes in the nature of work and occupations
Changes in employer-employee relationships
Skills required by the workforce of 2025-2030
Preparing for a new partnership with machines
Are we training people for a world that no…[Read more]

The brain has receptors responsible for gathering chronological types of information from other senses. They interpret the physical position of the sun via the eyes to instil a feeling of time passed. This provides for “getting a sense of time” or “having a sense of passing of time”. They are called chronosensors and are responsible for measuri…[Read more]

While society’s mind is shifting towards the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the education system stays anchored in its historic teacher-centred ways, expecting from learners to memorise subject content. Within the bigger scheme, one must consider that if society’s mind shifted through the first three industrial paradigms while the education sys…[Read more]

Learners are growing up in a so-called data economy and are confronted with an explosion of knowledge that is characteristic of the information age and which is closer to them via the internet than the distant teacher in front of the class. Learners of the 21st century want instant and incremental endorsement and support on their learning…[Read more]

The DHET and all the entities – that is:
21 SETAs, 3 Quality Councils (CHE, Umalusi, QCTO), SAQA, and the NSFAS, are planning a research colloquium for the 18th & 19th September 2019, in Gauteng, at a venue to be confirmed.

The deadline for paper submission is the 19th May 2019.

“The aim of the 2019 Research Colloquium is to provide a platform…[Read more]

Email alert received from sarah.marriott@uct.ac – DPRU
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The Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU), has issued the following call for applications.
Appointment of a Panel of pre-qualified researchers & related professionals to provide consultancy services to the Inclusive Growth Programme (IGP)
The…[Read more]

The world of work in the 4th Industrial Revolution will result in a larger part of the workforce being engaged in alternative work arrangements, with many doing work for more than one organisation at the same time. This will be increasingly common in the ‘GIG economy’: a labour market characterised by flexible, on-demand work in short-term con…[Read more]

How should we respond to the challenges of the 4th Industrial Revolution? In a presentation in January at the 2019 SALSA Seminar of the Legislatures of South Africa, I posed these questions that we need to ask as individuals, leaders and critical thinkers.
1. What are the main Threats and Opportunities of Industry 4.0 and how they affect my…[Read more]