Episode 7: A Conversation That Can't Wait About Higher Education
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The future of education extends beyond the classroom — we all have a stake in determining what changes need to happen in higher ed to meet current and coming challenges. Rovy Branon, vice provost at the University of Washington Continuum College, believes that time is of the essence. Given that young people now have a better than 50% chance of living to 100 or greater, how they re-skill and learn for 60 years of work is key to their longevity and prosperity. This has to be a larger conversation. So, UW Continuum College turned the spotlight on Learn/Earn/Relearn in a live event: the...
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Episode 6: Learn/Earn/Relearn/Our Turn — Team Reflections
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In this bonus sixth episode of Learn/Earn/Relarn, the podcast team looks back on the series — lessons learned, concerns uncovered, inspiration, excitement, and opportunities revealed. In the first part of episode 6, hosts Rovy Branon and Hanson Hosein recap episode 5 with futurist Amy Webb. The future is coming fast and furious — are we ready to meet it? Rovy and Hanson also connect dots between our five episodes and the continuing questions: How do educators prepare the workers of the future? and How will the very nature of education have to change in response...
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Episode 5: End of the Beginning — The Genesis of Our New Future
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In episode five of Learn/Earn/Relearn, we're looking ahead to the future. Will our 100-plus-year lives include "panda" sandwiches, engineered offspring, and freedom from disease? As we contemplate the technological changes that may lie ahead, our hosts ask — Are we ready? How do educators, parents, and workers prepare themselves and others for a complex and fast-changing near-future? Co-hosts Rovy Branon and Hanson Hosein are speaking with renowned quantitative futurist and best-selling author Amy Webb about consequential trends that indicate what was once science fiction is nearly...
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Episode 4: Learn for Life — When is it Time to Go Back to School?
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Back-to-school time used to mean August/September... is that accurate anymore? Probably not, say our hosts Rovy Branon, Vice Provost for Continuum College at the University of Washington, and Hanson Hosein, co-founder of a UW graduate program in Communication Leadership. Given increasing life spans and the acceleration of technology and its impacts on our work lives, well, institutions of learning may need faster revolving doors. As you listen to this series, you may be considering your options for your own and your family's future. Is your profession likely to change...
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Episode 3: Reskilling & Upskilling — Learn Long and Prosper
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“You’re not college material, Rovy,” said the high school counselor to the now-head of professional and continuing education at the University of Washington. To be fair, Rovy admits that his counselor was probably correct at that time in his life. In the end, a non-traditional route to higher education was the answer, allowing Rovy to access higher education when he was ready. In this episode, Rovy Branon and Hanson Hosein are talking with guests Asha Aravindakshan and Paul Fain about just that — meeting students “where they are,” personally and...
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Episode 2: Tech, AI, and the Speed of Change
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Can we hack our biology for longer lives or instantaneous access to information? Will your kid need a flyer's license in addition to (or instead of) a driver's license? And on a somewhat more serious note, should we fear that AI is coming for all our jobs? In this riveting conversation, co-hosts Rovy Branon, University of Washington Continuum College Vice Provost, and Hanson Hosein, co-founder of the University of Washington Communication Leadership program, talk with guests Elizabeth Scallon, Director and Lead of Incubation Enablement at HP and co-founder of Find Ventures, and...
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Episode 1: (Re)Skills Lab — Andrew Scott & The 100-Year Life
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Could living to 100 become the norm? It’s very likely that 25-year-olds living in the US today will enjoy a greatly extended life expectancy. But what does that mean for work? Technology is advancing at lightning speed, changing how we live and work, creating new jobs and rendering others obsolete. What happens if you need to reskill at 70? Will the resources be there to support the 100-year life? Fortunately, these questions are on the radar at many educational institutions, including at the . In this episode, UW’s Rovy Branon and Hanson Hosein speak with longevity expert...
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Introducing Learn/Earn/Relearn
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Imagine living to one hundred years or more! Thanks to technological advances, a 25-year-old living in the United States today is likely to do just that. Sustaining this extended lifespan presents all kinds of challenges — and compelling opportunities. Younger generations will have to “re-boot” professionally every few years. What will it mean to support and sustain multiple livelihoods? What tools do we need to see the disruptions that are coming, and what resources are out there to help us adapt? It’s time to reimagine what we mean by “career.” In each episode of...
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In this riveting conversation, co-hosts Rovy Branon, University of Washington Continuum College Vice Provost, and Hanson Hosein, co-founder of the University of Washington Communication Leadership program, talk with guests Elizabeth Scallon, Director and Lead of Incubation Enablement at HP and co-founder of Find Ventures, and Kence Anderson, Director of Autonomous AI Adoption at Microsoft.
Some of the questions the teams tackle include...
We're more engaged with brands, thanks to new tech (NFTs at Starbucks!?), but is it business as usual?
What are the implications of AI, Web3, biomedical advances, etc., as we live longer lives?
How will our kids' lives differ from ours, and how do we prepare them for the new reality they'll inhabit, if we even can?
As AI becomes even more sophisticated, how will our perception of the meaning of "life" change with it?
And perhaps most important of all: how do we ensure equitable access to new technologies and the education it will take to use and benefit from them?
Mentioned in the podcast:
Bored Ape Yacht Club
Cue health test
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text (openai.com)
Designing Autonomous AI [Book] (oreilly.com
Hidden Figures movie
National Oilwell Varco
PSi (thepsiapp.com)
Stable Diffusion
Urban Arts
Zeva
It's a critical conversation to have; we hope you listen and share this podcast. And join in the conversation by sharing your ideas and opinions at our email: [email protected].
Find out more information about our hosts, guests, and podcast at https://www.continuum.uw.edu/about-us/podcast.