"Once everyone is connected, your prosperity will depend on how well you or your company or country can analyze and apply all the data pouring through" these networks..." "Once technology is a given, all the old-fashioned stuff will start to matter even more." Problem-solving, creativity, and imagination: "the human stuff." Clearly, it's not enough just to know the technology. Students must learn to use technology not only for entertainment / social purposes, but in the context of innovation, analysis, and problem-solving.
The authors point out that there may still be the potential for some high-skill manufacturing jobs if the US pursues clean-energy technology; however, they are very clear that many are just not coming back. Present workers will have to retrain for new work.
Important wake-up call: "If you do a nonroutine high-skilled job in a routine way...you will be vulnerable to outsourcing, automation, or digitization, -or you will the first fired in an economic squeeze." Watch out teachers: here comes online education, Khan Academy videos, and charter schools.
How do we break the attitude of parents that jobs for their kids are on the assembly line and are what are available and important?
ReplyDeleteMost feel college educations put you someplace else in life... but those jobs are dwindling each year.
Getting the realization that acceptable standards of living happen by following the trends of the times needs to be emphasized.