One of my favorite bloggers has recently (well, relatively recently) blogged about the future of jobs in America. So has one of my all-time favorite writers, Thomas Friedman.
What this guy is doing with his company(iCracked) is amazing. And I think this type of thinking and adapting and inventing is what we should be teaching our kids in school. Starting in elementary school. Instead of the same stuff that we learned in school (and forgot) that our kids are going to be forced to learn (and then forget).
What he does isn't revolutionary but it is remarkable.
I believe (as do Seth Godin, Thomas Friedman, Steve Jobs, Steven Johnson, and on and on and on) that ideas like this are all around us waiting to be invented. We just have to encourage students to do so.
I like what Friedman has to say, "I got to find a job. But I tell my daughters all the time that they are going to have to invent one."
But when was the last time you were encouraged to do that in school?
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