Summary Of Shifting Jobs By Jonathan Lash

Each generation shows different trends and new innovative ways to problem solve. While most people agree with the shift toward technology and quantitative data, Cohen and others disagree. Cohen believes that the new shift in culture has “existential implications”

Education plays a vital role in this era. I support that education should not only be focused on books but also on critical sense and practical knowledge. Students should be able to experiment with the technological advancement and its outcomes.

The present is always changing into a better future. There have been many jobs in the past that do not even exist now due to the presence of technology. Nowadays, technology has become a major part of our lives and created a huge change in this world, and gives an opportunity for children to enhance their creativity and adapt to change quickly. In Cathy Davidson’s article, “Project Classroom Makeover”, Davidson discusses how vital the process of unlearning is to students and present education system. Unlearning discourages students from learning in a fashion that has all the pre-set directions, and gives independence to students so that they can explore with creativity. The process of unlearning is quite beneficial as it gives an opportunity for contemporary America to enhance creativity, embrace change, and become more independant.

Yet even with these realizations that delve into the deeper meaning of education, modern education is still calling for simple measurable outcomes and continues to be geared towards specific employment ideas. This model of education is blatantly inadequate though. Many students today will end up holding jobs not yet invented in fields not yet discovered, so the teaching of answers to today’s questions is utterly useless. Albert Einstein once said, “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” and this statement reigns true throughout time. To continue academic success, the education system needs to impart a mastery of one’s own mind that allows students to not only answer current questions but also to pose questions that will shape the future world.

I am now the president of our club and the manager of Wolverine Computer. Not only do I direct our shop's efforts to raise funding for our program and for student certification tests, but I also direct Wolverine Computer's training program. I organize opportunities for students to obtain hands-on, real-world practice in an environment that mimics the IT field realistically. Enabling students to receive work experience while still in high school is crucial to preparing students for a career in technology. In addition to certifications and direct work experience, the program also provides high school students opportunities to practice skills that are certainly needed in the technology field. This includes customer service, public interaction, and teamwork skills while allowing students to demonstrate a professional work ethic. The program and our SkillsUSA club have many facets that require great patience and skill to manage. Our SkillsUSA club has over 60 members and actively promotes IT and STEM at our school. Concurrently, students at Wolverine Computer have put in nearly 200 hours of community service in the fall 2016 semester. The proceeds from this community service have helped dozens of students become IT Fundamentals or A+ CompTIA certified and have given much-needed opportunities to students in La

College is an exciting but confusing time in everyone’s lives. In “Many with New College Degrees Find the Job Market Humbling”, Catherine Rampell explain how even if a student attends college the student is not guaranteed a job. In “Job Outlook for College Graduates is Slowly Improving”, Lacey Johnson talks about how the job market for recent graduates is beginning to repair itself. In “College Majors, Unemployment, and Earnings: Not All College Degrees are Created Equal”, Anthony Carnevale, Ben Cheah, and Jeff Strohl discuss which college majors have the most jobs in the current economy. The three essays answer some important questions that students might have such as: is college worth it, if a student does go to college what type of degree they should get, and what students should major in.

technological advances, versus someone born with a proverbial digital spoon in their mouth. College campuses across the county are crawling with both groups of people. There is no denying that modern technology has benefited the lives of most students and professors alike, but has this gap of understanding been acknowledged? In the article “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” by David Prensky, the author encapsulates the importance of bridging the gap between professors who prefer “old school” techniques, and modern students who seek immediate gratification and new challenges through the learning process. Prensky logically articulates the generational differences, the timeless core curriculum necessary for learning, and ways for educators and students alike to help modernize and improve the overall classroom experience.

The United States is one of the leading nations in innovation, education, and quality of life.It is essential that its people be well educated problem solvers who are adequately prepared to make a “difference in the world(Roth)” and be able to project the “future results(Roth)” so that they might be able to further our nation. The U.S currently ranks as number fourteen in the world of education, leaving a large amount of room for improvement, and “given the pace of technological and societal

To work is to solve problems”(Rose,251). Therefore, Joe and other’s like him are engaging in and displaying the core elements of Western intelligence everyday. Workers are not the only ones that feel the heat from peoples’ misconceptions about certain things, education systems get a lot of grief due to misinformation and assumptions. The most prevalent educational system that is connected to awareness is the liberal arts. Liberal arts students “come to terms with complexity and diversity, and otherwise devise means to solve problems”(Ungar,196), but a liberal arts education is often thought of as overpriced and obsolete. There is a movement towards career education-“leaving out the ‘frills’ like learning how to write and speak well…[and] how to collaborate with others on research”(Ungar,191). Sadly, “history is filled with examples of failed social experiments that treated people as work units rather than individuals capable of inspiration and ingenuity”(Ungar,191). Every person is capable of creative thinking regardless of their level of a formal

Paving New Pathways will address CanTeen members, occupational transition from being a cancer patient into a cancer survivor. It also aims to address the occupational deprivation experienced, the forming of a new occupational identity and regaining occupational balance. Dyson, Thompson, Palmer, Thomas and Schofield (2011) and Zebrack (2011) acknowledged that experiencing cancer during this critical develomental stage had an impact on a number of areas of occupation. Futhermore Lewis et al. (2014) highlighted that those who survive youth cancer experience a number a difficulties with life that if unresolved will create barriers for future occupational engagement. With a 95% surival rate after one year and 87%-88% after five years, the post-treatment effects that cancer has on young people needs to be addressed (Lewis, Jordens, Mooney-Somers, Smith & Kerridge, 2013; Lewis et al. 2014).

Arum and Roksa found that colleges and universities have shifted their focus because of the change in society. They now try to accommodate the students to make college life more fun and entertaining. Students have become so used to being catered to and prioritizing entertainment, that they make up so many excuses as to why they shouldn’t get so much homework and that they do not have time to do it. Yet, students still expect great results from their poor academic commitment. Arum and Roksa quoted Barbara Schneider and David Stevenson describing the prevalence of “drifting dreamers with high ambitions, but no clear life plans for achieving them.”

“Don’t just play on your phone, program it.” This quote by President Obama, which hung in my AP Computer Science classroom, embodies what it means to be an engineer and

However, tech-oriented industries still need people with liberal arts experience to create, develop, and sell their products. With new advances in computer technology, tech companies don’t need as many programmers. What they are focusing on now is making the product more visually appealing and user-friendly, both of which are tasks commonly allotted to people with a liberal arts background. Improving the communication capabilities and visual features of widely-used apps is more practical in today’s society than calculating the new highest prime number, though there is beauty in that as well. According to Forbes Magazine, only approximately thirty percent of Silicon Valley hirees actually get jobs in software engineering. The other seventy percent are involved in a myriad of roles ranging from sales to administration to software interface. Silicon Valley is not an exclusively tech industry; today, liberal arts are just as important a part of this innovative

Breakings through the chains of corporate slavery is in full affect. In other words, nobody wants to work for a heartless corporation that does not value their staff. Individuals are educated and ready to make a career change if necessary. The overwhelming feeling of being imprisoned by a job is dreadful. Even the most loyal captive will seek an opportunity to break free from a dreadful organization. The sensation of being confined within an organization with no room to grow or expand is a daunting feeling. When individuals are treated as if they do not matter, it raises the question; why stay here? If employers are naïve enough to think that there are no other options for hard working people, they are wrong. The information being

Computer Science, Software Engineering and Information Systems are international qualifications, enabling people to work globally, and in a very broad variety of roles. There is steady growth in demand for technically adept and flexible IT graduates. Declining student enrollment, while growth continues in law, medicine, biology, economics, and business; the decline among women is particularly alarming (Klawe and Shneiderman 27). Computer science is now a part of everyone’s daily life through the innovations and technologies it enables. From transforming health care to enabling a more robust national defense, computer science is on the forefront of discovery, driving economic growth and transforming our