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Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade

Quote : "According to Cathy N. Davidson, co-director of the annual MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competitions, fully 65 percent of today’s grade-school kids may end up doing work that hasn’t been invented yet." ( Heffernen, August 7,2011) 

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I find this to be an amazing prediction. When you consider that the jobs we currently have available are able to support billions of people, what will this mean for the future? Will we lose current jobs and force people to learn how these new jobs? Will the new jobs co-inside and help reduce the unemployment rate? There is no way to know for sure how this will affect the work culture at the moment, but it does affect how we as teachers should be educating our students.  We should approach the classroom with a “forward thinking” attitude, rather than continue with the ways that have been used in the past. We must stay on top of the latest technology and introduce it to our students to give them the best opportunity to succeed as adults.

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Heffernan, V. (2011, August 7). Education needs a digital upgrade. Retrieved from http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/education-needs-a-digital-age-upgrade/?hp




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 Microsoft made this video to give examples of what possibilities the future holds. I think this video shows how it will effect the daily lives of everyone from elementary schools kids to businessmen and women. It's exciting to think that all of the high tech gadgets we've seen in movies for years can be a reality. 

"2019 - A Beautiful Illustration of Future Technology - From Microsoft ." Video. youtube.com. by muruzono . 2009. Web. 28 Aug 2011. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQu5zRmqa_E>.

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I'm Larkin Slaughter. Born and raised in Morgantown, WV.  Mojoring in Technical Education. I would like to teach in a middle or high school. I think that the best way for kids to learn is by learning how and why things operate the way they do. It helps give a better understanding of what they're dealing with. For example, we could build a remote control car to see how all of the different components work, and what they do to make the car run.