Learning How to Learn – Creating Unforgettable Learning Experiences
Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat, forecasts our economic economic future and the need for a workforce prepared to compete in the high tech job market. In a recent editorial in the New York Times, Friedman grabbed my attention with his thoughts on “learning how to learn.”
There’s a huge undertow of worry out in the country about how our kids are being educated and whether they’ll be able to find jobs in an increasingly flat world, where more Chinese, Indians and Russians than ever can connect, collaborate and compete with us. In three different cities I had parents ask me some version of: “My daughter is studying Chinese in high school. That’s the right thing to do, isn’t it?”
Not being an educator, I can’t give any such advice. But my own research has taught me that the most important thing you can learn in this era of
heightened global competition is how to learn. Being really good at “learning how to learn,” as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it,
will be an enormous asset in an era of rapid change and innovation, when new jobs will be phased in and old ones
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