The future of education, Zoom online conference

From a technoprogressive point of view, there are at least six major problems with today's educational system. Happily, there are solutions that can be applied, between now and 2035, to ensure comprehensive improvements.

The first major problem is that education is too expensive. Second, it focuses too much on preparing students for employment in the work environment of the past, rather than for a society which is increasingly post-work. Third, it puts too little priority on critical thinking and collaborative intelligence. Fourth, it fails to teach the skills of foresight, scenario planning, and the identification and management of both risks and opportunity. Fifth, it does little to prepare students for a world of rapidly increasing diversity, including co-existence with advanced AIs and robots, along with people with new lifestyles, new body modifications, new social structures, and new philosophies. Sixth, it provides insufficient support for mental agility and emotional resilience.

In short, present-day education falls far short of its full potential, and leaves students ill-prepared to reach their full potential. But it doesn't need to be like this.

This online conference call is a chance to review proposals and suggestions published as part of the UK Transhumanist Party's technoprogressive roadmap.

During the call, you can share your views about matters to prioritise or deprioritise, on potential alternatives, and on what shorter-term actions should be organised.

== How to participate ==

To join the online conference, from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection, visit https://zoom.us/j/232904963.

There is no charge to take part: attendance is free.

You can join the meeting from a laptop, PC, Mac, tablet, or smartphone. With a larger display, you'll be able to see more windows of content at the same time.

When you join, your microphone will be muted and your video camera will be switched off, but you can turn them both on as/when you wish.

The Zoom conference will be online for ten minutes in advance of the 9pm start time, that is from 8.50pm, for people to connect early and check that everything is working.

If you haven't used Zoom before (or recently), you may find you need to install or update Zoom software before you can join the conference.

The conference is expected to run for around 60 minutes.

== What to expect ==

The call will mainly consist of an open discussion based around questions and answers from audience members.

To get the most out of the time on the call, attendees are recommended to view ahead of time this eight minute video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WER3P54Tu1E.

For text discussion of some of the roadmap ideas in advance of the conference call, visit https://discourse.transhumanistparty.org.uk/t/interim-targets-for-2025/123 - where you can add your own thoughts.

== Credits ==

The meeting image is based on work by Picography from Pixabay - see https://pixabay.com/photos/trinity-college-dublin-ireland-405783/

The content of the Technoprogressive Roadmap has already benefited from lots of constructive feedback from members and friends of the UK's Transhumanist Party. Thanks!