What do you want to be when you grow up? Technology in schools

September is here once again. And, for yet another year, thousands and thousands of teenagers will once again have to ask themselves the eternal question: "What do I want to study? "What do I want to study? What do I want to be when I grow up? Both are questions with which we have bombarded young people since childhood. The answers, in one of the latest surveysThe results of the survey, carried out among nearly 2,000 children aged between 4 and 16 from all over Spain, are once again the same. It highlights that, despite the fact that children are using new technologies from an early age, they still choose very traditional professions.

For example, boys still want to be footballers, policemen or teachers, while girls prefer to be teachers, veterinarians or doctors. The professions of engineer, chosen by 4.1% of boys and 1.5% of girls, or computer scientist (2.6% of boys) are still far from the favourites.

However, all this matters little, as we are facing a very uncertain employment future. The arrival of Artificial Intelligence and robots on the market will create new professions that we cannot even imagine today. To be precise, and according to Vishen Lakhiani45%, entrepreneur, educational technology innovator and philanthropist, 45% of the jobs that exist today will not exist in 10 years.

Maybe we have been getting it wrong for years and we should not be asking ourselves "what we want to be when we grow up". Based on Lakhiani's reflection, which indicates that the more accurate question would be "how do we want to change the world", a world of possibilities opens up. With just this nuance, our brain starts to work, to pose a real problem to which we want to (and must) look for a solution. Or even several. Solutions that will undoubtedly help the development of humanity. Solutions that will create jobs and activities that are unimaginable even today.

Many of these solutions or alternatives to a real problem are arrived at through technology and teaching for which institutions have not yet prepared themselves. Thus, other types of educational organisations are emerging, such as IMMUNE Institute, where they learn, for example, to programme in a practical way, guaranteeing greater success in the process. In these environments, and without the need for prior knowledge, students develop in a motivating and inclusive environment where there is room for everyone.