Skills For The Future

How can new working youth be papered for future jobs and skills if all the skills we learn now will not be useful in the future? In the article Rigor Redefined by; Tony Wagner, describes how students are not prepared for future jobs this information was collected by years of studying students in the class rooms and learning how the students work with each other and by them selfs trying to solve problems given to them. Wagner also managed to interview some business leaders and other top business personal. One of the business leaders states that the new workers that are being hired need to be more engaged with others. This is a good example of students not being ready for the real world; how is this proven? In the study of the students in the class room, some students doing a science lab were studying how three chemicals were reacting when mixed and put on the Bunsen burner and were to record their study's on a sheet of paper; after they had done this their beaker started to make a spiral smoke in which none of the other students beakers were doing, one of the students looks up at the chalk board then at his notes, then all of them stop apparently waiting for the teacher. This shows how none of them knew what to do and did not even bother asking one another.This shows how students are not being taught the rite skills for life.  In another interview with Mike Summers from the company of Dell stated that students do not how the skills of communicating with others. So how is this important to every day life? Well it might not be important to people with jobs that they are good at but it will be difficult for new employed students in the future. 

The Machine Is Us.

In the video Web 2.0... The Machine is Us/ing us. Michel Wesch illustrates in a very collaborated way on how to  get people to notice on how we are using technology and not how the machine is not the computer; nor the newest phone,or the new iPod; but it is actually us; the human mind in which it has created all of these materials and machines. This video shows how much we have come and how easy materials like these have made life so much easier. Michel Wesch has really shown humans true create with unlimited imagination; capturing the ideas, information, and the mind  of man and how much it can do by itself. This video also mentions how people collaborate and share information across the world; either by videos, blogs, web links, pod casts and more.