solving education problems the social way
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Janna Bastow - As Head of Product at BraveNewTalent, Janna is passionate about using new technologies to solve old problems.TRANSCRIPT
Janna Bastow @simplybastow
Who am I?• Head of Product at BraveNewTalent
• We have a vision: Close the gap between education, recruitment and the world of work.
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What is this skills gap?
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the skills gap
industry innovation
education innovation
What’s wrong with education?• Made for mass production• Information regurgitation• Grouped by age, not ability or
interest.• No input from future employers• No exposure to world of work
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What’s wrong with education?
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What’s this world of work?• Knowledge work• Team work and collaboration • Fitting in with a company culture• Progressing with a career
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Is this a global thing?
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How can education keep up?• All new job titles are being created• Curriculums are out of date
Traditional education system can’t keep up.
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Case Study: Khan Academy• Providing free world-class
education to anyone, anywhere.• Video access to a huge library
of learning material and assessment tools.
• Self administered learning
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Case Study: Facebook• Provides intense on the job
training, called Bootcamp• Language agnostic, places
the employee based on skills/interests.
• Employer led learning
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Case Study: Aspiritech• Turns Aspergers/austism into
specialized jobs in QA• On the job training and life
coaching• Custom tailored job
opportunities
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How can being social help?• At each person’s core, a desire for: – Self discovery.... what am I good at?– Self improvement.... how can I be great
at it?– Self actualization.... how can I carve a
place in the world for me?
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How can being social help?• Peer-to-peer technologies open up a
new world–Massive, collaborative knowledge pool– Skills and knowledge transfer– Career mapping to skills and interests
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Everyone is brilliant at something.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
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