Chapter 1

As I was reading this chapter I became very curious. In the economics section for example the implications was made that one of every ten jobs will move over seas in the next two years. Considering this book was published in 2007, they are taking about this year. The next implication is that one in four jobs will be moved over seas by 2010. I want to know if this really is true, did this happen? In our age of information it is hard to make predictions because everything is changing exponentially. I was unable to find any accurate information about the number of jobs sent overseas.

In contrast this quote did come true. "It is clear that the U.S. and other rich nations will have to transform their educational systems so as to produce workers for the jobs that will actually exist in their societies... In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important that how much we educate them. " (Binder, 2005) I discovered recently that according to the U.S. Department of Labor 25% of the population has been with the same employer for less than a year, 50% of the population has been with their employer for less than 5 years. Our students today are not being taught how to master a profession, but rather need to be taught to quickly pick up new professions.

Five years ago there was no You Tube or Twitter, who knows what we will have in the next five years. For my freshman this year this means as they enter college there are likely going to be jobs that didn't exist while they were my students. This revelation struck me. As a math teacher the content I go over has changed little in the last twenty years. However, my students have changed drastically. Consequently, I need to change and adapt as well. I have a challenging year ahead of me.