A FILM that challenges the worth of today’s education systems will be screened in nine North East towns this month.
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Most Likely To Succeed is a documentary that highlights new project-based learning approaches to education that encourage children’s critical and creative skills.
Beechworth’s Australian Centre for Rural Entrepreneurship is hosting the sessions, with co-founder and chief executive Matt Pfahlert wanting to start conversations.
“It's really challenging the status quo around the way our education system has been structured,” he said. “And how it's potentially not the best approach for the rapidly changing world we currently live in.”
Mr Pfahlert said the movie argued curriculums evolved from the industrial revolution, preparing workers for assembly lines and white or blue collar jobs.
But now computers completed many of those tasks and employers sought other skills.
“The change in requirements for digital literacy in job seekers has gone up 212 per cent in the last three years,” Mr Pfahlert said.
The film screens in Bright (May 11), Myrtleford (May 12), Mt Beauty (May 13), Wangaratta (May 17), Wodonga (May 18), Beechworth (May 20), Benalla (May 23), Shepparton (May 24) and Mansfield (May 25).