Ep. 42 Nicole Dyson on empowering young people, unleashing potential and using education as a weapon to change the world.

Nicole Dyson is an award-winning educator, has represented Australia as a delegate for the G20 Young Entrepreneur’s Alliance, and is the trail-blazing founder of Future Anything, which has worked with 1000’s of students and schools across Australia delivering entrepreneurial education to unleash the potential of young people.

Nicole trained as a teacher in the USA, UK and Australia and has held leadership positions at Queensland’s top-performing public schools, where she has repeatedly led the design and implementation of education system changes to support future-ready learning, placing young people at the forefront of co-designing learning experiences - exactly where they should be.

As Nelson Mandela said: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

But what is the role of education in a rapidly changing world, and a world in which young people are facing uncertain futures fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, globalisation and exponential technological advancement?

In this conversation, Nicole shares her thoughts on the challenges of today’s current education approaches, which can default to an industrialised ‘chalk and talk’, ‘teach to the test’ model which doesn’t keep up with the real world, and increasingly sees students disengaging or dropping out of education altogether.

Compounding that disengagement is a generation of young people who are given scant opportunity to play, experiment and explore their passions and interests at school, and who in many instances are being raised by stressed out, low capacity parents, who have no idea how to support their kids' learning and future pathway development.

This is an episode for educators and parents out there who want to discover what rich and engaging project-based learning can look like if it is anchored in real-world and relatable educational experiences, and who want to excite young people again about transforming their talents, passions and curiosities into game-changing ideas that can - and will - make the world a better place.

Guest: Nicole Dyson
Links: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Website

Hosts: Sabina Read and Madeleine Grummet
Producer: Daryl Missen at Purple Wax

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