Project ECARUS XXI

Educational Center for Art and Science

in 21 century

TORONTO , May 7-th

East - West

2 cultural hemispheres = 2 educations

Intuitive East • super-rational, self understanding

• inner freedom of conflict

• from the universal to the particular

• "inductive speech pattern",

• primary point is approached indirectly

• harmonious interrelations

• more perfect realization of goals

Analytical West • rational power

• direct communication

• from the particular to the universal

• using "deductive speech"

• immediately establish their point

• practical, recipe-driven education

• presentation over content

RU

SS

IA

In 2006, 136 235 in Canada reported Russian as their mother tongue

total considering themselves as Russian citizens was 500 000 .

In 2011, the figures were 205 000 / 700 000. (Statistics Canada)

21st Century Trends: Economic

From national to global economies

From manufacturing to knowledge

creation

From hierarchical to flat organizations

From mass-production to customization

Information

Exponential growth in information

New ways of handling information

New forms of information

From face-to-face to virtual communication

Social

Growing diversity

Multiple careers

Changing lifestyles

Aging

Major

Challenges Climate change

Environmental degradation

Persistent poverty

Energy needs

The world we live in Access to Everything, All the Time, From Any Device, Anywhere

• Knowledge-intensive and innovation-led

globalized world

• Everyone competes with everyone, self-

branding on the rise

• The less competent are replaced by those

who, in other parts of the world, can do the

same for less

• The rate of change of the economy requires

creative and differentiated workforce

• But the uniformity of school systems

produces almost undifferentiated workforce

• The ability to create value, with creativity

and competence, becomes essential for

survival in the labour market

• 61,000 hours of music on

Pandora

• 20 million photo views and

3 million uploads on Flickr

• 100,000 tweets

• 6 million views and

277,000 Facebook logins

• 2+ million Google

searches

• There were 204 million

emails sent

In the last minute …

Why the modern world is bad for your brain ?

• We are doing the jobs of 10 different

people while still trying to keep up with

our lives, our children and parents,

our friends, our careers, our hobbies,

and our favorite TV shows

• When people think they’re multitasking,

they’re actually just switching from one

task to another very rapidly. And every

time they do, there’s a cognitive cost in

doing so.

• Multitasking creates a dopamine-

addiction feedback loop, effectively

rewarding the brain for losing focus and

for constantly searching for external

stimulation. To make matters worse, the

prefrontal cortex has a novelty bias,

meaning that its attention can be easily

hijacked by something new

• Glenn Wilson, former visiting professor

of psychology at Gresham College,

London, calls it info-mania

Labor market dynamics…

• By 2015, big data demand will affect one million jobs in the Global 1000 but only one-third of those jobs will be filled … • Wearable smart electronics in shoes, "tattoos," and accessories emerges as a ten billion dollar industry by 2016. … Source: Gartner

Big Data ‘ You torture the data until it is confess ‘

• Simultaneous

• Specializes in context

• Synthesizes the

big picture

• Intuition

• Emotions

• Visual

• Relational

• Creativity

• Playfulness

• Sequential

• Specializes in text

• Analyzes detail

• Logic

• Mathematics

• Processing of

information

• Organization

Right - Left

2 hemispheres = 2 approaches

The Knowledge Era = present This was the age of the knowledge worker. The activities that brought us success were centered on the left-brain: sequential, contextual, detailed – oriented , liner, analytical and focused on “hard” facts

The Conceptual Era =future. The rise in significance of right-brain thinking. Creativity, context, the “big- picture”, pattern recognition, empathy, design and soft-skills are more important than simply knowing and applying

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCY, ability to operate in diverse cultural settings

VIRTUAL COLLABORATION, ability to work, drive engagement, and demonstrate presence as a member of a virtual team.

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE, ability to participate in the collective construction of solutions

SOCIAL MEDIA LITERACY, ability to critically use social media as instruments of empowerment and transformation

SENSE-MAKING, ability to determine the deeper meanings and the courses of action to act in complex situations

COMPUTATIONAL THINKING, ability to translate aggregates of data into abstract concepts and conduct data-based reasoning

COGNITIVE LOAD MANAGEMENT, ability to discriminate and filter the information needed to produce successful solutions

TRANSDISCIPLINARITY, ability to reason and build knowledge across multiple disciplines DESIGN MIND-SET, ability to create

solutions in contexts where only part of the requirements are known

ADAPTIVE THINKING, ability to think and act in ways that transcend the rote and rule-based

Assessment & career-

orientation, talent -pool

Kindergarten

School, after -school

Music, vocal,

fashion, art, ballet

Sport, dance, well-being,

healthy living

Science, IT, telecom,

Auto, Air Labs

College , adult –

classes, ESL

Drama, cartoons,

public speaking

iECARUS solution Under one roof

Self-awareness

Self-confidence Motivation for success

Changing perspectives.

Open-mindedness

Tolerance

Flexibility

Empathy

Effectiveness. Situational decision support

Creativity

Innovative thinkers

Rewards outside the box thinking

Embrace the collective

Best education in the world

Youth unemployment by country in 2013

Trends in American Public Schools

No one knows for certain what the future can bring, but

without vision, how can we achieve our dreams?

www.gartner.com

www.theoryandpractice.ru

www.ted.com

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Thank you for your attention.

Спасибо за внимание.