I just read a finance article
that got me thinking… and no, this blog post does not serve as financial advice
and/or a political statement!
We frequently talk about how
technology can enhance and broaden learning opportunities for our students.
What we don’t often talk much about are the negative effects of technology as
it relates to jobs and the resulting implications for our schools.
Below are three quotations I
pulled from the article:
“The waning benefits of
globalization and the
detrimental effects of technology.”
“The explosion of new
technology in recent years has also helped power the global economy, but that new technology has its
shady side."
"In
the past decade, machines
and robotics have rather silently replaced humans, and a recent MIT study
affirms that workers are losing the race against the machine."
You
can read the entire article here: New Normal is here to Stay
Furthermore, as someone smarter than I so eloquently put it:
“The value of individual pieces of content is dropping
drastically as society is propelled toward a world of increasing uncertainty
while schools try to provide our kids with the skills for jobs that don’t yet
exist.”
This got me thinking about what our students need to be
successful in a global economy. In the same breath, we know full well that our
society is changing so rapidly that there is more uncertainty than there is
known.
I don’t really know where I was going with this, but I think
it really demonstrates the awesome responsibility we have as educators to
prepare our kids for whatever the future holds…
~ Happy thinking!