Digital Delights

While I can’t argue that we need different workers today, I’m cautious against a trend to create a narrow vision of what kind of person/worker/job we think our students should become. We praise the new qualities of creativity  collaboration and criticalthinking as essential for success and it seems often these are best associated with the hipster start ups. . I don’t argue against these qualities but I don’t think we’ve done a very good job of providing examples of these qualities at work in more traditional jobs and vocations.The typical vision is the googleplex of engineers and programmers sitting on comfy couches drinking lattes and creating the next big thing.