Chris Betcher

 A short while back I was asked to speak at an event about ways that we can prepare students for the future of work. I was still working at Google at the time, and I thought there was an angle to the question about preparing students for the future of work that is sometimes overlooked. Here was my response... I need to start by pointing out that there have been two systems that have influenced my own perspective on the future of work, and the education system is only one of them. The other one has been in “the workplace”, or the enterprise, or business, or whatever you want to call it, in the work I’ve done outside of schools for the last decade or so. I think it’s worth calling this out because as much as schools like to prepare students for “the future of work”, schools are also filled with people who often have only experienced what work looks like inside a school .  I think I can say that what work looks like inside a school and outside a school can look very differe...