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IFTF Launches Future Skills Initiative
The work + learn economy is transforming before our eyes. Machines are doing jobs no one expected they'd be capable of performing. Meanwhile, full-time employment gains are shrinking, and more people—either by choice or circumstance—are working on a temporary, part-time basis. These shifts are only the beginning of even more massive disruptions ahead.
How can workers and learners succeed in such an uncertain, rapidly evolving world? To answer that, IFTF has launched the Future Skills initiative—a series of events throughout the year designed to help workers and learners of all ages develop skills to navigate a vastly different labor economy.
Our first event, held at the end of February, brings together innovators, influencers, and thought leaders in business, education, and the investment community to launch and discuss a work+learn framework that identifies peak performance zones and associated super skills that workers and learners will need to succeed in the workforce of the future. We'll also unveil a first-of-its-kind virtual reality training circuit designed to point learners and workers to the skills they'll need in the future. The circuit includes stops such as the “Befriending the Machines” station, where learners will find themselves in a future of artificial intelligence, working with or for robots in creative endeavors.
Go Deeper
- Future Skills: Get Fit for What's Next—IFTF's new research map is your guide to the five-station #futurefit workout circuit. It can help you become your own kind of champion in the work+learn futures. Start now!
- A Nation Upside Down—New report offers new vision for the future of learning in an article co-authored by Future Skills Collaborator Jamai Blivin of Innovate+Educate, and advised by IFTF Work+Learn Director Parminder K. Jassal, PhD.
- A Media Kit for Future Fit: A Convening of innovators in the Work + Learn future— including a list of collaborators