DEJ #1 Education needs a digital-age upgrade

"Individual workers needed to willingly perform discrete operations as opposed to whole jobs."

Reflection:
     While I do agree that technology is important in today's world with all the advances and marvels around us, this quote scares me. For those of us who are considered "Middle Class" or "the Working Class", this quote is not something we look at with optimism. The economy today makes it very tough for an individual to find a job that may be kept for longer than a few months. According to this quote, jobs in the future will be even harder to hold on too. Although I may be reading this sentence as something it isn't, to me this means that an individual will have to settle for work that is promised today with no hope of returning to the same job tomorrow. To be honest, technology scares me as a whole. I do understand the good that technology offers and how desperately the world today needs the technological advances, but at the same time, I can also see the bad that technolody can offer us too. I do agree that education needs to change and to be moderized with how the world works so that we don't hinder our students. This quote, to me, just makes me feel that all the jobs we consider important, will soon be done by technology and such to the point that we have to hope it fails so we can have some work to fix it.

Related source:
http://www.turnerindustriesmedia.com/summer-2011-newsletter/vip.php

Citation:         

Heffernan, Virginia. "Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade." (2011): n. page. Print.

. "Wayne Tyson supports various education initiatives." Turner Industries. Turner Industries, SUMMER 2011 EDITION. Web. 21 Jan 2012. <http://www.turnerindustriesmedia.com/summer-2011-newsletter/vip.php>.