Bridge Building Podcast Episode 62: Datta Podcast: The Future of Education Summit with Scott Millar & Megan King.
Release Date: 06/19/2024
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info_outlineRight off the back of a very successful Datta conference and quite frankly I am seriously excited about the future of education, I have the pleasure of spending some time with two sensational educators. Scott Millar and Megan King will spearhead a conference in July called the “Future of Education Summit” and you are just about to hear that they base this future on giving our
students access to and the ability to practice and use those 21st-century skills. And one of the staples of their methods is design thinking.
Now I do give Scott a bit of a hard time because, well he is just way too young to have the amount of smarts that he is carrying around and you do have to call that out. But seriously, when
you realise that the business he is running started as a Business/design project in high school you will see him as a true success arising from our area. I didn’t ask him which school he went to and I should have because it sounds like it could be the next place for me.
So please enjoy this slightly longer-than-usual conversation about the future of education and the summit which is being held at Canterbury College on the 25th of July 2024.