Mar 24
95. Future Education — how it will change in 10 years? | With Paulo Silva
In the 3rd episode of Productized Podcast Season 11 — Future Cities — we are talking about future of education with Paulo Silva. Paulo is the founder & CEO at Miles in the Sky — an online education platform with exceptional experience and courses. Paulo has more than 20 years of C-level roles, covering the full range of top management responsibilities. Now Paulo is focusing on developing an online education platform and programming school “42”.
Main topics covered:
🚀 How will future education look like?
⚖️ How to keep balance in top-level manager’s life and not burn out?
🏫 Role of governments in the change of educational system for adults
Time notes:
Paulo introduction [1:00]
What is the mission of Paulo’s company [2:00]
A typical day in Paulo's life — what helps him to keep balance in life [3:00]
What is Miles in the Sky? [5:40]
How learning in Miles in the Sky is different from regular learning model [7:30]
Learning should be personalised, relevant material for each individual. That’s our main goal — make people learn to learn.
The future of Miles in the Sky [10:00]
What can we do about youth who are smart, but still fail in specific courses [13:00]
Things change when you expose people to a challenge.
Paulo’s career development, 20+ years in C level roles [16:30]
How Paulo started work in technology [19:00]
Experience in Vodafone — starting as a CTO [22:10]
Period of self-searching [25:00]
Paulo decides to choose to study architecture at the University [26:00]
Burnout problem of top-level roles [29:00]
At the end of the day, all these things are a personal choice.
How did studying architecture help Paulo in his life and career [32:00]
How did this rich experience in companies help Paulo with starting his own company “42 Lisboa” and “Miles in the Sky” [33:10]
Education will change dramatically over the next few years.
How a view on education has changed recently, thanks to zoom and online classes [36:00]
People will start to learn and apply their knowledge in Metaverse? [37:30]
Digital experience course at Miles in the Sky [38:40]
Re-skilling adults: what concepts are the key to implement it [40:30]
Not everybody is re-skillable for digital technology.
Willingness to learn in the era of limitless resources [43:20]
Being part of a cohort, being part of a community is a key element to learning in a different way. — P. S.
Why would Paulo learn blockchain and cybersecurity if he had to choose a new technology to learn? [45:30]
I think everybody will have to learn about data. It will be applicable to every single activity.
Is it difficult to recruit talents to Miles in the Sky? [49:00]
Campus-based “42 Lisboa” school [52:00]
What is the biggest challenge for Miles in the Sky [54:20]
Role of governments in the change of educational system for adults [55:00]
The competition of cities is going to be about talent.
Creative development will be a base for growth and development in the cities.
Words of advice to younger self [59:20]
- Always be aware for opportunities, because things will go in your way.
- Don’t stay too long in a place where you already understand deep inside you that it’s not what you want to do.
Go to where you find a passion, a belief, that you are doing something useful to yourself and society.
Paulo recommends:
PRODUCTION
This podcast was hosted by André Marquet, with research done by Evelina Bogdiun and sound edited by Miguel Sousa.
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