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Will our students be prepared for the 21st century job market?
* Outsourcing: 1 million tax returns were done in India last year
(Daniel Pink at poptech.org)
* Automation: 21 million Americans used Turbotax last year, and 90 million filed online
Machines are no longer replacing just our backs--software is replacing our brains.
What kinds of human skills can automation replace?
logical, linear, sequential, rule-based skills
Any job you can reduce to a series of predictable steps is disappearing. This is exactly the type of job that the majority of middle-class Americans held in the past.
We are leaving the information age and entering the conceptual age:
Left-brain skills like number crunching and memorization are going to matter less.
Right-brain skills like creativity, synthesis, and empathy will become the most important (and profitable) skills in an advanced society.
SKILLS IN DEMAND ARE:
Hard to outsource
Hard to automate
Deliver significance along with utility
Our students will not necessarily be best served by large amounts of knowledge or narrow specializations and the isolated skills that specialization involves. They need to be able to think outside the box and between specific disciplines.
A liberal arts education that emphasizes empathy and the ability to think creatively across disciplines will best serve our students in the new job market.
Digital Stories
•"Digital Storytelling" in its broader journalistic sense refers to the variety of emergent new forms of digital narratives (web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertexts, and narrative computer games).
(wikipedia)
"Digital technologies allow storytellers to approach storytelling from a different perspective and to devise nontraditional story forms, such as nonlinear and interactive narratives. Given its enormous potential, digital storytelling promises to play a significant role in a marketplace in need of nonlinear and interactive ways to craft stories, engage audiences, and influence their world."
Ball State University info on Telecommunications Master of Arts with Digital Storytelling Emphasis
http://gallery.me.com/karapetkov#100774
SOME RESOURCES:
*Story Box:
http://www.story-box.co.uk/
*Digital stories on BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/galleries/pages/digitalstorytelling.shtml
*Educational uses of digital storytelling at U of Houston:
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/
*A good article at Educause:
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7021.pdf
JOB SKILLS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
http://www.vimeo.com/6103183
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