However, today's children have separated their studies from their careers at an early age, and the consequence is that they are not ready for employment, so that they are faced with various problems such as being confused about their work goals, not knowing what they are good at, and taking detours in their work. ...
So, how to train children who will not be unemployed in the future today?
Author: Meditation. An independent writer, he has published works such as Key Breakthrough: 25 Sharp Tools to Solve the Essence of Problems, Life is Long, Live a High Quality Sense, etc.
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20 13 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, two researchers in the field of artificial intelligence in Oxford University, conducted an anxious study.
In their co-authored paper, two scientists judged that 2045 will be the main year for AI to replace human work based on modeling. They also made a detailed forecast of 702 jobs and sorted them according to the speed of disappearance.
The employment prospects are worrying and the market is not enough.
In the first category of jobs that are bound to disappear, in addition to our expected drivers, service personnel and non-core technical posts (such as administrative/secretarial posts), there are also some jobs that we look good now-pilots/captains, translators (text translation and interpretation), foreign language teachers, referees of sports events and criminal investigators. They are also the first jobs to be replaced by AI.
The second category, jobs that will not disappear for the time being, but will disappear in the future, are all jobs that we regard as golden rice bowls now, such as general outpatient doctors, laboratory technicians, accountants, junior programmers and junior lawyers.
The third kind of jobs that will not disappear easily include primary school teachers (middle school teachers will be replaced more easily than primary school teachers because primary school students have no sense of autonomous learning and need someone to lead and supervise), judges, creative designers, singers, musicians and writers. AI can hardly replace human beings in any work involving ethics, innovation, imagination and self-awareness.
This research is by no means an alarmist by scientists. With the development of artificial intelligence, a number of new occupations will appear, but more "middle and low" occupations will also be eliminated.
AI steals our work, he may be late, but he will not be absent.
From kindergarten to high school
Vocational education in European and American countries
Today's children, including ourselves, have separated their studies from their careers since childhood, and the consequence is that they are not prepared when they are about to get employed, so that they face various problems such as being confused about their work goals, not knowing what they are good at, and taking detours in their work.
From the perspective of life cycle, work has a vital impact on our adult life. The quality of life, the relationship between people, the relationship with society and the attitude towards the world all affect our happiness in life. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to cultivate a professional outlook from an early age, instead of waiting until graduation and stepping out of the ivory tower to memorize.
In Europe and America and other countries, professional training for children can be said to start with dolls.
In the kindergarten (preschool) stage, children begin to get professional enlightenment. Teachers will regularly ask parents in the class to introduce their careers to their children.
Before the outbreak, my child's class organized Talk Career activities for several weeks.
Entrepreneurial parents introduce 3-5-year-old children what is an entrepreneur, their business is a package, and what is the significance of this job. Another parent is a professor in the chemistry department of the university. She tells children about chemical changes and what chemists do in their work every day through interesting little experiments.
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Through these, children can have the most basic impression of what is work and occupation.
In primary school, vocational enlightenment will go deeper. The National Vocational Information Association (NOICC) was established in the United States, stipulating that children should receive vocational guidance from the age of six, learn to "know themselves" about their interests, specialties, characteristics and abilities, and explore the relationship between education and occupation.
NOICC also has matching tests and indicators for primary school students' professional abilities, such as describing how job skills are used in the family and society, describing various jobs in the local job market, describing how jobs meet the needs of others, and formulating and developing primary school students' career plans.
These questions without standard answers will be used to test the self-awareness, occupation and occupation awareness of American primary school students. The exam is not to teach them how to answer these questions, but how to let them have their own cognition through these questions.
Moreover, the primary school has a career day every year, and the school will invite many government functional departments to attend classes. For example, police, firefighters and medical workers have made full and meticulous preparations every time. The police will put "props" such as police cars, police dogs and bulletproof vests on the scene for children to experience, and medical workers will introduce their own tools for seeing a doctor.
By the junior high school stage, every student should complete the "occupation interest analysis report".
The analysis of vocational interest first divides all walks of life into fifteen types, such as agriculture, construction, machinery and transportation. Then design hundreds of seemingly unrelated questions for students to answer. Like what do you like to eat? Do you keep animals?
These problems seem illogical, but in fact they are nuanced and see the big picture from the small. The report will not only point out the areas that best meet students' interests, but also tell them the basic requirements of these occupations, how to work hard and how to take the first step.
With such a informative report, junior high school students can plan their own future and work hard towards their interested careers.
After entering high school, I began to have actual combat for my career.
Many comprehensive middle schools offer many elective courses, including academic courses for students preparing for university study and various vocational skills courses for students who are directly employed after graduating from high school. Such as agriculture, computers, business management, and even veterinarians.
In the first academic year, students will explore several project courses to see what career they are interested in, and then find opportunities to interview relevant professionals. After determining the direction of the career project, students will accept the basic courses in the career project.
In my senior year, I will focus on learning vocational skills in specific industries, and at the same time take relevant vocational qualification certificate exams. Many people practice while studying, and basically have the ability to adapt to complex society. Students can enter the society completely after graduation.
In short, regarding the lifelong events of work, European and American schools can be said to plan ahead, and everything is just to make children feel more comfortable when they really enter the workplace.
Six high-scoring documentaries
The first step to start career enlightenment
Even though our school still lacks vocational enlightenment education, parents can still give their children a lesson. In addition to daily popular science and taking children to read some professional books, watching industry documentaries is also an effective method.
Industry documentaries can help children understand the work content and significance of an industry more intuitively, as well as know the representative figures of this industry and find their own career model, which can not only find more substantive significance for children's learning, but also become a bridge for children to enter the workplace in the future.
The following are six high-scoring documentaries from different industries, including design architects, musicians, surgeons and industrial design. Watch it with your children and start the first step of career enlightenment.
This is a documentary about the late Chinese American architect I.M. Pei.
Known as "the last master of modernist architecture", Bei Luming's works in his life include more than 70 pieces such as Kennedy Library, the East Pavilion of the National Gallery of America, the Bank of China Building in Hong Kong, and the transparent pyramid of Napoleon Square in the Louvre. This documentary can let children see the growth and experience of architects and the beauty that this profession brings to the world.
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Practicing the piano is a compulsory course for many children in China, and the process makes both parents and children miserable. The reason why many people can't persist may be that they don't know what the meaning of this exercise is.
Many children may find inspiration and encouragement from this documentary about cellist Yo Yo Ma produced by PBS.
The pain of practicing the piano is similar to a lack of confidence in playing, and the master is no exception.
The ultimate significance of music is not only the beauty brought by the players' notes, but more importantly, this art must first shake its own core.
You have to keep music in harmony with yourself in order to persist and grow from a piano practitioner to a master.
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Miyazaki Hayao's animation is the Bai Yueguang in many people's minds. His works are like a collection of life poems that infect the soul. Those beautiful and pure pictures, imaginative and charming dreams ... let each of us see the intelligent world covered by ordinary life.
What's the story of the master who created these exquisite pens? How did he step by step onto the road of cartoonist and animation director? Why can he continue to create for decades without exhaustion of inspiration? How did the profound meaning behind his animation come into being?
The documentary "The Myth Without Miyazaki Hayao" can let children see the true face of animation masters and the tremendous pressure that people in the animation industry bear every day.
People around Miyazaki Hayao call him "the devil in animation", and he is extremely serious about his work.
What an employee drew made Miyazaki Hayao very dissatisfied. Miyazaki Hayao was blunt: "Are you alive without thoughts?" ? Don't do it if you can't. Get out of here "
After reading what several CG technology developers have made, he said with a sad face, "What you have done is extremely unpleasant. It doesn't matter if you want to do such a disgusting thing But I will never let it have anything to do with my work. I always feel that these are a great insult to life. "
Miyazaki Hayao said: The beauty of the world needs animation. In order to discover the beauty that is not perceived by the world, I want to observe the world with such eyes.
This is also the consciousness and accomplishment from craftsmen to artists.
(Watch the link:
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This global disaster epidemic makes people respect medical staff and go up a flight of stairs. It was their efforts that saved more of our talents.
What kind of motivation and spirit made them bravely make the choice of "sacrificing themselves"? As the "god" who saves lives in the eyes of the general public, what kind of accomplishment does it take to become a doctor with exquisite medical skills and strong humanistic care?
The documentary "How Surgeons Practice" released by Netflix last year can give you a glimpse of the whole leopard and see the ways to improve the doctor's career.
There are four outstanding doctors in different fields in the documentary, each of whom is awe-inspiring. The film is not only inspirational, but also sincere in analysis, and frankly tells the fear of being a doctor. It's just professionalism that makes them choose to overcome their fears and look forward every time.
Many doctors have a strong sense of professionalism in the end. Maybe some people have a mission in this world.
(Watch the link:
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At first, the documentary produced by BBC thought it was about some novel and eccentric designs. After reading it, I realized what a designer is and what it means to be a designer through products.
If a child is interested in painting creation and design, this documentary can better help him build a professional framework of designers, namely technology, art, times and responsibilities.
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The sixth season of No.1 Scholar has come out. In this documentary, the host Mike Rowe became their apprentice in the film, introduced these laborers to the audience, personally participated in and led the audience to understand all kinds of "dirty work".
From the cage cleaner in the zoo to the corpse cleaner on the road, from the garbage collector to the sewer inspector, from the pig farm cleaner to the dung farm worker, all kinds of "dirty, messy and smelly" jobs have been tried by the host one by one. The types of work we can do in our life are limited. Through this play, children can not only learn more about the industry, but also see those unsung heroes who work hard.
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The real vocational enlightenment education is not to force children to "inherit the mantle" or learn a skill to accompany them. But through the cooperation of all walks of life, let them see how this society works healthily and find their place to participate in it.
References:
An analysis of American children's vocational enlightenment education