Comments on: Immunizing your graduates from economic downturns http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/04/immunizingyourgraduates.html Technology, leadership, and the future of schools Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:42:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Digital Natives | Educational Technology Issues http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/04/immunizingyourgraduates.html/comment-page-1#comment-20404 Digital Natives | Educational Technology Issues Sun, 20 Jun 2010 01:34:26 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/04/immunizingyourgraduates.html#comment-20404 [...] Maybe I own background makes me basis towards believing that we have a generation that is ready to exploit technology in education, and that is why I agree with the “digital native” group. In my personal experience, I have seen a change in my years of teaching from students that thought using computers was a treat, to a vast group of students that expect to use computers on everything. Since we opened up the wireless access in my building, I have seen a rapid rise in the number of laptops in my classrooms. Anybody in education can tell you that you cannot generalize when it comes to the background knowledge of your students. The articles are worried about the labels that we put on students, and I believe that good instruction assess skills and knowledge of their students to maximize the potential of those students. I think that these types of debates are great to bring up concerns and hopes, but the real concern should be that students will need technology skills in most professions that they will pursue after school. We need to teach children how to think and create to make sure that they can be productive citizens in the future. Factory jobs are drying up, and this next generation needs these skills to compete with the world. This website has a great argument for the future of employment of children. dangerouslyirrelevant.org [...] [...] Maybe I own background makes me basis towards believing that we have a generation that is ready to exploit technology in education, and that is why I agree with the “digital native” group. In my personal experience, I have seen a change in my years of teaching from students that thought using computers was a treat, to a vast group of students that expect to use computers on everything. Since we opened up the wireless access in my building, I have seen a rapid rise in the number of laptops in my classrooms. Anybody in education can tell you that you cannot generalize when it comes to the background knowledge of your students. The articles are worried about the labels that we put on students, and I believe that good instruction assess skills and knowledge of their students to maximize the potential of those students. I think that these types of debates are great to bring up concerns and hopes, but the real concern should be that students will need technology skills in most professions that they will pursue after school. We need to teach children how to think and create to make sure that they can be productive citizens in the future. Factory jobs are drying up, and this next generation needs these skills to compete with the world. This website has a great argument for the future of employment of children. dangerouslyirrelevant.org [...]

]]> By: Claus http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/04/immunizingyourgraduates.html/comment-page-1#comment-10883 Claus Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/04/immunizingyourgraduates.html#comment-10883 Very interesting post. Richard Florida makes another essential point in The Flight of the Creative Class: Service jobs will not go away, yet most service employees earn low wages for low-skilled work. He urges us to find the creative potential of those jobs, lest the job market enforce pay disparities long after schools retool themselves for the 21st century. If we prepare everyone for creative, 21st-century jobs (as well we should), there will always be losers as long as the labor market cannot absorb them. Very interesting post.

Richard Florida makes another essential point in The Flight of the Creative Class: Service jobs will not go away, yet most service employees earn low wages for low-skilled work. He urges us to find the creative potential of those jobs, lest the job market enforce pay disparities long after schools retool themselves for the 21st century. If we prepare everyone for creative, 21st-century jobs (as well we should), there will always be losers as long as the labor market cannot absorb them.

]]> By: Mary Beth http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/04/immunizingyourgraduates.html/comment-page-1#comment-10884 Mary Beth Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2009/04/immunizingyourgraduates.html#comment-10884 we're in a jobless recovery right now, isn't that true? we’re in a jobless recovery right now, isn’t that true?

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