Finnish Education Perspectives

#5 Future Skills | Perttu Pölönen |

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Today’s guest is Perttu Pölönen. He is a futurist, inventor and author. He is a classically trained composer by education but became an entrepreneur at a young age. He has studied future technologies at Singularity University, in Silicon Valley, co-founded an ed-tech company in Myanmar, written two books and won the EU's biggest science competition for youth. In 2018, MIT Tech Review honored him among the 35 Innovators Under 35 in Europe.

I invited Perttu on the show to talk about his wonderful book Future Skills (to be released in English later in 2021). The book is a suggestion of a ‘new curriculum’ of future skills that is essential in order to continue the process of educational and human development.


So many gems popped up in this conversation including:

  • Why future literacy is needed for the next generation.
  • The danger of passing on obsolete knowledge to future generations.
  • Which tools best help us tolerate uncertainty.
  • The importance of getting to know yourself on the path to wellness.
  • The art of slowing down to experience depth of learning. (Are we making the world a better place or a more efficient place?)
  • Asking important questions such as: What can I give my students that google cant?

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