Activity 1: Download the "Inform Yourself " guide

McKinsey Article: What is the Future of Work? (2023) 

Video: Bureau of Labor Standards Occupational Employment Projections, 2020-30

Video: How to Use the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook

Video: LinkedIn Top Job Titles of 2023 (NBC TODAY)

Website: Career Explorer

Key Question: What are verified sources advising about roles and skills with strong demand from employers?

• Video:  The Digital Skills Gap and the Future of Jobs 2020 - The Fundamental Growth Mindset (Start here - this is a good one to set the stage for future work!)
• Video: BLS Occupational Employment Projections 2019-2029
• Video: PBS Future of Work Ep1: New Industrial Revolution (2021)
• Video: PBS Future of Work Ep2: Future Proof (2021)
• Video: PBS Future of Work Ep3: Changing Work. Changing Workers (2021)
• Video: The future of work: is your job safe? (Good overview of trade-offs of future work) from The Economist (Recommended)
• Video: Robots and AI: The Future is Automated and Every Job is At Risk (2018) (Older video but worth watching)

• Video: Connecting AI to the Internet is a big mistake.(2023)
• The Gig Economy is Making Workers Feel Lonely and Powerless (2019)
• The Future of Work in an AI Economy: What this means for jobs,income and human purpose (Tony Robbins)
• Video: The AI Revolution: Google's developers on the future of artificial intelligence (60 Minutes)
• Like social science, but want to be relevant to technology? Check out Human Factors and Engineering Psychology
• Worldbank.org: Remote Learning, EdTech & COVID 19
• LinkedIn Pulse Article: What we’ll need to survive, and thrive, amid economic uncertainty,  an excerpt of "Reprogramming the American Dream," by  Kevin Scott, the current CTO of Microsoft, about the  impacts and opportunities of AI and technology in future life and work (2020)
• Podcast: Making Sense: AI: Racing toward the Brink (Sam Harris)
• Podcast: The Future of Work with Jacob Morgan'

Key Question: What are the potential trade-offs (benefits/costs) if the predictions of the future economy hold true? 

2020 IDC Report: "The Future of Higher Education: Digital Transformation" (Register to Download from Salesforce)

Colleges are closing: See Education Dive.

Inventory your own skills with: EMSI's SkillsMatch,  

Kaplan: Merging degrees with industry certification 

Schools of the Future: Defining WEF: New Models of Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

How can we prepare students for the Fourth Industrial Revolution? 5 lessons from innovative schools around the world

Education Week: Microsoft, Verizon, and Other Big U.S. Companies Design Their Ideal High School Courses (2020)

Education Week: Data: 5 Big Challenges in Preparing K-12 Students for the World of Work

College Tuition Price History (Data about cost inflation since 1977) 

Parker Dewey: Digital Internships! 

America's Mathematics Curriculum Doesn't Add Up,  2019 by Steven D. Levitt.  

Key Question: What new learning pathways are emerging? Which are declining?