David Alex LambFeb 17, 2023
I need to think about how this affects my role as curriculum coordinator in the School of Computing at Queens University in Kingston. For a couple of decades we have been adding increasingly specialized courses and degree plans. This article implies that may have been a bad idea.
#Education #Curriculum #Overspecialization
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/15/harvard-yale-researcher-future-success-is-not-a-specific-skill-its-a-type-of-thinking.html
Harvard lecturer: 'No specific skill will get you ahead in the future'—but this 'way of thinking' will

To make it in today's world of rapid changes and uncertainties, successful business leaders like Jeff Bezos prove it's better to be a generalist, rather than a specialist.

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Show threadJoana de Castro ArnaudDec 3, 2022

@AmenZwa But they would be very #diverse and #heterogeneous geniuses, because of the different #backgrounds and life experiences.

The #overspecialization we see in the sciences comes to mind, but worse: each *person* would be an overspecialist.

#Society would still cope, because of the *shared* life experiences, but it would become much more complex: