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When academic departments disagree on preparing students for an uncertain future

Our university department is redesigning the curriculum and we're split between faculty who want to prepare students for jobs as they exist now and those of us pushing to teach skills for the world that's coming even though we don't know what that world will look like.

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Educators must navigate between practical preparation for known systems and speculative preparation for transformation they can sense but not predict.

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