This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Our children are using technology for every thing but to get an education. The coming "job shift" will require every worker to know how to use technology to keep up with the ever increasing pace that knowledge is growing and how to operate in a viral world.--It has been seen 4000 times.
For those not up on the meaning of "viral"-(marketing) A video, image or text spread by "word of mouth" on the internet or by e-mail for humorous, political or marketing purposes. That comes from the English language Wiktionary.You can go there for any words the kids in this video use that you don't know-like wiki.
The
symbols for crisis in Chinese are made up of these two words:wei means "danger; peril" and ji means "opportunity; crucial point." However in reality, a crisis is still a dangerous state of affairs - regardless of the language. Crisis wei
ji still means "a situation that has reached an extremely difficult or dangerous point".Zhuan
means "turn into".So, if
wei becomes
zhuan
ji a dangerous situation can become an opportunity.
Based on the book How to Prosper in a Workplace Without Jobs,Fortune’s widely discussed 1994 cover story,“The End of the Job”,(click
here to read this important article) predicts that the job is not going to be part of tomorrow's economic reality. Our current economic “crisis” is an even larger one than most people have yet realized. We are losing jobs because it's a natural progression to a new economy based on rapidly moving trends in creativity, knowledge and productivity. There will always be enormous amounts of work to do, but it is not going to be contained in the familiar envelopes we call jobs. The change is going to be so significant that it will require a paradigm shift in our approaches to employment as individuals and government.
The term "paradigm shift" refers to a certain thought-pattern — a radical change in personal beliefs, complex systems or organizations, replacing the former way of thinking or organizing with a radically different way of thinking or organizing. When a paradigm shifts, everyone goes back to zero because their business models, government programs, and employment skills have to change to meet the new view of the world. This means that Lee County -- if we as a community can make a paradigm shift about work -- will be structured in the future and educate our workers with the new skills required for an entirely different approach to earning an income. We have a great opportunity to emerge from this difficult time with higher paid workers and a competitive advantage.
It will require a new kind of leadership. According
to Dr. Margaret Schweer a colleague of
Don Tapscott, one of the foremost experts in organizational transformation and the role of technology in business and society,
We believe the expectations of professionals in the workforce will be fundamentally and irrevocably changed; talent and resources will be sourced and deployed on demand; co-creation and transparency will transform the customer experience; and leadership will be continuously realigning and innovating.This is what was called a Job Shift in that 1994 article by William Bridges -- "the workforce will be fundamentally and irrevocably changed: talent and resources will be sourced and deployed on demand." This shift is underway and this section of the e-Lee Dispatch will be devoted to helping the community make that change.
