Why creativity and innovation are so important
What differentiates us from robots? This may sound like a silly question but, as technology advances at a sometimes bewildering rate, it could in fact be the most important question of all, explains Caroline Jordan, Headmistress of Headington School in the UK.
he advance of robots, machine learning and artificial intelligence is already changing the job market immeasurably. Increasingly, jobs which once needed a skilled person in post can be automated. Soon, there may be very few things which machines cannot do at least as well, if not better – and more
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cheaply – than their human counterparts. The idea that a robot could put you out of a job would seem incredible were it not already happening all over the world. In education, this is something that needs to be at the forefront of all our minds. If, as PwC predicts, as many as 30 per cent of UK jobs are at risk of being taken over by robots and AI by 2030, how do we prepare the children in our charge for this? How does this change what we need to teach and how our students need to learn? There are some skills which remain uniquely human. Creativity and creative thinking appear to be beyond the capacity of artificial intelligence. These are the skills we need to be focussing on developing. We already know how much employers value analytical thinking, innovation, creativity and originality. These differentiate good candidates from excellent ones. In the future, they may be the things which make a human ‘worth’ employing over a robot.
A creative approach – and one which embraced technology wholeheartedly – was critical when schools in the UK and all over the world transitioned to remote learning in 2020. In many parts of the world, teachers are still simultaneously juggling between those learning at home and those in the classroom. Equally, where teachers need to remain at home, some are teaching remotely to a full classroom back at school. These are
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