A New 3Rs for Education | Jose Bowen | TEDxSMU

Technology has created a new learning economy where graduates will be valued less by what they know and more by what they can learn. Content still matters, but we now need to focus more on the process of change. If we want students to become more skeptical, better able to integrate new information and adaptable to jobs that do not yet exist, then we need to focus education on a new 3Rs of Relationships, Resilience and Reflection. José Antonio Bowen has been leading innovation and change for over 35 years at Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Southampton (UK), then as a dean at Miami University and SMU and as President of Goucher College (voted a Top 10 Most Innovative College under his leadership). Bowen has appeared on five continents as a pianist and conductor and withStan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby McFerrin, Dave Brubeck, Liberace, and many others. His compositions include a symphony(nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1985), and music for Jerry Garcia. Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford University, has written over 100 scholarly articles, is editor of the Cambridge Companion to Conducting (2003), and an editor of the 6-CD set, Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (2011). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx