Education: Innovations and Technology

HOW TECHNOLOGY HAS

AFFECTED MY LIFEBY: ROBYN WALLACE

Once children are old enough to

hold a pencil, they are bombarded

with questions of what they want

to be when they grow up. From

grade one to grade twelve,

students are told to figure out who

they want to be.

Asking our students to plan for

the future isn’t the issue. The

issue is that we are asking them

to plan based on TODAY, not the

FUTURE. Technology has

drastically changed in the last ten

years and continues to grow at a

rapid pace.

This notion gave me an idea. Would

the people who have completed their

schooling and are currently in their

career change what they had done,

based on what they know today?

I asked friends, family members and

strangers to take two pictures. One

with a caption stating their current

job and a second picture with the

caption “knowing what I know today I

would be. . .”

Here is what I found. . .

Based on what I found, it is clear that

the greater majority of people would

have changed their career path. With

the future of jobs constantly

changing, our students should be

prepared for all possibilities. Our

students should be growing with the

technology, not lagging behind it.