THIS VIDEO SHOWED THAT TEACHERS NEED TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR A WORLD THAT IS CHANGING SO FAST. IT IS PREDICTED THAT THE TOP 10 JOBS IN 2010 DID NOT EXIST IN 2004. THE BEST WAY TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR THE FUTURE IS TO SUBSCRIBE TO PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS AND STAY CURRENT ON YOUR SUBJECT MATTER. WE HAVE TO STAY ON TOP OF OUR FIELD SO OUR STUDENTS WILL BE PREPARED FOR THEIR CONSTANTLY CHANGING WORLD.
Wow...it's kind of hard to wrap around all that info. Some of the facts I found most interesting (threatening?) concerned China's and India's population. The top 25% of China's highest IQ's is a greater number than all of North America? They have more honor students than we have students? Wow, that should be a wake-up call that the U.S. should spare no expense when it comes to funding education in this country. The fact that our students will have 10-14 different jobs by the time that they are 38 tells me that as teachers it is more important than ever that we teach our students skills such as creative thinking, problem solving and how to work as a productive "team player". These are the type of skills that will be important no matter the career path.
The whole point of this piece is to demonstrate that progress is now made exponentially and, as Brian pointed out, to even hope to keep pace, we will need to teach our students the skills of “learning” not the skills of the “learned” – creative problem-solving, teamwork, and global thinking.
This is the second time I have seen this piece. My principal showed it to us during our inservice last fall and it probably made a great impact, at first. But, as a staff, we really did nothing new last year to insure that we were all on the same page when it comes to creating life-long learners in our school.
For me, this is one of the most profound problems in education today. Teachers know that we need to make changes to adapt to the increased speed of today’s world but we are never given the professional time to do so. Take the Smart Board, for instance. We have a few in our buildings and were allowed to keep them in our rooms for a month before passing them on to someone else. This was a great idea but we only had a half-day of training on how to use the board and to begin looking up lesson plans and information to actually use the board. It all sounds great but I barely have enough time to keep up with what has to be done in my classroom. I don’t have the luxury to take several hours of my own time and peruse the available Smart Board applications. We did try to work together as a team, splitting up the investigations into subject matter but then we never seemed to have the time to get together to share what we had discovered. Before I knew it, the year was over and we had spent most of our team time integrating a new district-wide Language Arts vocabulary imposed upon us beginning this fall. It is extremely frustrating to know there is so much we need to keep on top of and yet we just always seem to scrap by.
This is an exciting time for students graduating from high school and college if they are prepared to embrace the pace of change. I believe the best preparation would include teaching students how to find new information and make good use of it. They need to develop the skills and mindset to compete globally and strengthen their communication skills including multiple languages. Political and geographic boundaries are declining in significance and competition for higher education and jobs are increasing. Problem solving skills will be needed to understand current issues and access information to help the students best position themselves to respond appropriately.
This is the second time I've seen this video and it still surprises me. I think this information is telling us that our current education system needs some reform. We cannot predict what jobs will be available, we cannot predict what knowledge students will need to have in order to get those jobs. We need to prepare students to be life-long learners, critical thinkers, and to be creative.
WOW! I think the ending is powerful and sums it all up that shift/change is constant and in my opinion, we need to be aware of how China and India's students/population is performing. Yet, if we concern ourselves too much with trying to keep up/out do them, we take the focus off of what we need to do for US and OUR students and population.
When I do career guidance with my students I tell them the very same thing....jobs will be created that we are not even aware of and thus, it is SO VERY IMPORTANT to be creative in his/her own way, have a good work ethic, get involved in the community and see jobs/people/industry first-hand, and ALWAYS KEEP LEARNING!
Wow. I'm not really sure how to respond to all that information except to say that I don't think education can necessarily keep up with that pace. I was especially shocked by the amount of money Nintendo invests in research compared to how little is spent by the US government on education research. I think that is a very telling statistic when it comes to America's priorities. They are not with the children and the education of the next generation but are instead focused on very short-sighted goals such as war and making the rich people richer. I also was struck by the question of what we did before we could google any question we had. Does this mean that people are much better informed now that they used to be? Are our minds being expanded by all this information or what kind of effect is this having on our brains and the brains of the young people we are teaching?
I was speechless while viewing the video. To me it's scary how technology keeps moving up. Do we really need all of it? I don't think our kids will ever be ready for the future becuase of it always changing. We currently put too much money in technology than we do in education, how does that help us? We can prepare our students for the future as much as possible, but if more funds are spent on the technology instead of the education are we ever prepared?
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THIS VIDEO SHOWED THAT TEACHERS NEED TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR A WORLD THAT IS CHANGING SO FAST. IT IS PREDICTED THAT THE TOP 10 JOBS IN 2010 DID NOT EXIST IN 2004. THE BEST WAY TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR THE FUTURE IS TO SUBSCRIBE TO PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS AND STAY CURRENT ON YOUR SUBJECT MATTER. WE HAVE TO STAY ON TOP OF OUR FIELD SO OUR STUDENTS WILL BE PREPARED FOR THEIR CONSTANTLY CHANGING WORLD.
Wow...it's kind of hard to wrap around all that info. Some of the facts I found most interesting (threatening?) concerned China's and India's population. The top 25% of China's highest IQ's is a greater number than all of North America? They have more honor students than we have students? Wow, that should be a wake-up call that the U.S. should spare no expense when it comes to funding education in this country.
The fact that our students will have 10-14 different jobs by the time that they are 38 tells me that as teachers it is more important than ever that we teach our students skills such as creative thinking, problem solving and how to work as a productive "team player". These are the type of skills that will be important no matter the career path.
The whole point of this piece is to demonstrate that progress is now made exponentially and, as Brian pointed out, to even hope to keep pace, we will need to teach our students the skills of “learning” not the skills of the “learned” – creative problem-solving, teamwork, and global thinking.
This is the second time I have seen this piece. My principal showed it to us during our inservice last fall and it probably made a great impact, at first. But, as a staff, we really did nothing new last year to insure that we were all on the same page when it comes to creating life-long learners in our school.
For me, this is one of the most profound problems in education today. Teachers know that we need to make changes to adapt to the increased speed of today’s world but we are never given the professional time to do so. Take the Smart Board, for instance. We have a few in our buildings and were allowed to keep them in our rooms for a month before passing them on to someone else. This was a great idea but we only had a half-day of training on how to use the board and to begin looking up lesson plans and information to actually use the board. It all sounds great but I barely have enough time to keep up with what has to be done in my classroom. I don’t have the luxury to take several hours of my own time and peruse the available Smart Board applications. We did try to work together as a team, splitting up the investigations into subject matter but then we never seemed to have the time to get together to share what we had discovered. Before I knew it, the year was over and we had spent most of our team time integrating a new district-wide Language Arts vocabulary imposed upon us beginning this fall. It is extremely frustrating to know there is so much we need to keep on top of and yet we just always seem to scrap by.
This is an exciting time for students graduating from high school and college if they are prepared to embrace the pace of change. I believe the best preparation would include teaching students how to find new information and make good use of it. They need to develop the skills and mindset to compete globally and strengthen their communication skills including multiple languages. Political and geographic boundaries are declining in significance and competition for higher education and jobs are increasing. Problem solving skills will be needed to understand current issues and access information to help the students best position themselves to respond appropriately.
This is the second time I've seen this video and it still surprises me. I think this information is telling us that our current education system needs some reform. We cannot predict what jobs will be available, we cannot predict what knowledge students will need to have in order to get those jobs. We need to prepare students to be life-long learners, critical thinkers, and to be creative.
WOW! I think the ending is powerful and sums it all up that shift/change is constant and in my opinion, we need to be aware of how China and India's students/population is performing. Yet, if we concern ourselves too much with trying to keep up/out do them, we take the focus off of what we need to do for US and OUR students and population.
When I do career guidance with my students I tell them the very same thing....jobs will be created that we are not even aware of and thus, it is SO VERY IMPORTANT to be creative in his/her own way, have a good work ethic, get involved in the community and see jobs/people/industry first-hand, and ALWAYS KEEP LEARNING!
Wow. I'm not really sure how to respond to all that information except to say that I don't think education can necessarily keep up with that pace. I was especially shocked by the amount of money Nintendo invests in research compared to how little is spent by the US government on education research. I think that is a very telling statistic when it comes to America's priorities. They are not with the children and the education of the next generation but are instead focused on very short-sighted goals such as war and making the rich people richer. I also was struck by the question of what we did before we could google any question we had. Does this mean that people are much better informed now that they used to be? Are our minds being expanded by all this information or what kind of effect is this having on our brains and the brains of the young people we are teaching?
I was speechless while viewing the video. To me it's scary how technology keeps moving up. Do we really need all of it? I don't think our kids will ever be ready for the future becuase of it always changing. We currently put too much money in technology than we do in education, how does that help us? We can prepare our students for the future as much as possible, but if more funds are spent on the technology instead of the education are we ever prepared?
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