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In the kindergarten i am working have never used peer review with my students for their productions and work but i usually use it for their behavior (follow the rules at school) with all the team. It is a way to make them respect themselves and the team.

As for the teachers definitely it is a challenge for professional development

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Thanks to all of you it was a great course. I think i will start introducing coding to my students via Scratch.

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5.4. Internet Safety and Responsible Use

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5.4. Internet Safety and Responsible Use

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I pinpoint the Greek site about safe internet. We use it usually in class. It has games and materials for responsible use of internet.

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Saferinternet.gr - Για ένα ασφαλέστερο Διαδίκτυο

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In kindergarten we can introduce via social media our productions in our blog and share it with parents and other members of educational community.

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My own learning network covers both of the 3 parts Ollie identifie. I am learning from other teachers, proffesionals, courses and communities.

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"Social media isn’t a fad, it’s a fundamental shift in the way that we communicate. Or “the way that we can communicate” might be a better way of saying this." as Ollie said. We can share ideas, opinions, resources but there are dangers. We have to be critically in it and not upload personal parts of our life.

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I would like the school to equip technologically

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Everything new seeing the critics but we have to accept it because it is the future however must be careful.

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4.7. Educational Robotics - Getting Started Activities

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4.7. Educational Robotics - Getting Started Activities

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I have never used robots and i have no experience of it.

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4.6. Educational Robotics - Introduction

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4.6. Educational Robotics - Introduction

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Very interesting video but i would like to see an example on how it fits in kindergarten's curriculum.

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I have never heard of it but now i am going to explore it.

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Ollie highlights the importance of having good reasons for developing an app. The first step of introducing app development with your students would be to brainstorm problems that could be solved with an app. However, for you to be a little ahead, think about what local problem you could tackle with your students and share it here. Problems could be anything from addressing environmental concerns to simple timetabling issues

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I believe that we can link coding with all the subjects of the curriculum but i haven't done it in classroom.

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I have never taught coding nor used pair programming but sounds great for students collaboration.

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"Coding is the new literacy" True!

It is very important for children to know coding and should be taught in schools. In Greece it isn't prevalent. Only in last years they try to inclusion it in the curriculum as a project but first of all must teachers get ready for this.

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4. How to programme machines?Module 4 Starter

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4. How to programme machines?Module 4 Starter

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I am working in the 1st kindergarten of Pylos since 1994, i was there when they were digging for the new building. It is near the castle and it has a great view.

I had students since then and now i have their children as students. I know parents and they know me. That's why i feel it like a part of my home.

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I ve never design games in classroom. It is a puzzle for me. I have to get more experience in it.

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We recently create a blog for our school from Greek School Net. It is a way to share our work and communicate with parents.

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For kids in kindergarten is difficult to create alone audio or video productions but i use to create myself for etwinning projects and for our school s blog with movie maker.

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I use for myself Power Point, Word, Excel but not for online collaboration in the classroom.I have used online collaboration with my colleagues in etwinning projects with padlet.

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Offline: projects/face to face and power point presentations in the classroom.

Online: kindergarten s blog

Slideshare ,padlet, prezi in our etwinning projects

Especially online communication impacts positive on students and parents too.

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3. How to create digital resources/content?STARTER ACTIVITY: Our digital skills weaknesses

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3. How to create digital resources/content?STARTER ACTIVITY: Our digital skills weaknesses

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am absolutely puzzled by code. As for video production i am a starter...

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2.2.d. Content and Copyright - digital plagiarism

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2.2.d. Content and Copyright - digital plagiarism

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Digital plagiarism is a problem every where. In kindergartens we don t have such problem from the kids only from the teachers. Copy and paste others work.

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Mobile Learning | August 2013 Digital Edition

From Texting to Plagiarism, How to Stop High-Tech Cheating

With the proliferation of mobile devices and instant access to the internet, cheating has become easier than ever. What can educators do to stop it?

The 21st century classroom is a wonder of online tools and content that students can access from an ever-evolving range of personal mobile devices with capabilities only dreamed of less than a decade ago. (Just imagine: The first iPhone was released in 2007!) But the anywhere/anytime access these devices provide to vast web resources, sprawling social networks, and real-time communication has spawned a new kind of cheating in K-12 environments--an easier, tech-enabled version of bad behavior that is as old as the classroom, but with the potential to compromise virtually every aspect of modern student assessment.

What we're calling high-tech cheating has been characterized variously as a trend, an epidemic, and a plague. But it might be something even worse: a paradigm shift. More students than ever are using information technology in ways that break the rules of academic integrity, and a shocking number of them don't seem to think they're doing anything wrong--well, not that wrong. They're taught, after all to use these tools and resources to work together on class projects. They swarm over shared Google Docs, interact on assignment-related Facebook pages, and coordinate team efforts via text message. For digital natives, some have argued, sharing information is so natural and so often encouraged that lines that were once so bright and clear are blurring.

Things get even blurrier when you factor in the examples presented by educators in headline-grabbing revelations of their own disrespect of the rules. In the past couple of years, teacher-related cheating scandals have erupted in Atlanta; El Paso, TX; Washington, DC; and Columbus, OH. According to the US Government Accountability Office, 32 states have reported "canceling, invalidating, or nullifying test scores from individual students, schools, or districts because of suspected or confirmed cheating by school officials [emphasis ours]" for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 school years.

What Is High-Tech Cheating?
The web is a rich resource of shameless cheating strategies. YouTube is rife with examples. "How to cheat on all of your tests," reads the listing for one video. Click on it and you get step-by-step instructions on how to copy a beverage label and replace all the nutritional information with, say, your physics notes. "Make sure you get enough glue on the bottle," the video advises. "Once you have this done, you'll have your notes, but nobody will know except you!" Web developer Josh May makes this particular process even easier on his Pirate Weasel website, where he provides a printer-ready water bottle label onto which notes can be cut and pasted.

But the high-tech cheating ball was already rolling way back in the digital Stone Age of 2004, when this activity was briefly called "cybercheating." At that time, Santa Clara University (CA) researchers Stacey Conradson and Pedro Hernández-Ramos declared that "...the preponderance of statistical and anecdotal evidence underscores several disturbing trends, indicating that cheating at the secondary level is not only occurring more frequently, but that students are using much more sophisticated methods for their transgressions."

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From Texting to Plagiarism, How to Stop High-Tech Cheating -- THE Journal

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Mobile Learning | August 2013 Digital Edition With the proliferation of mobile devices and instant access to the internet, cheating has become easier than ever. What can educators do to stop it? The 21st century classroom is a wonder of online tools and content that students can access from an ever-evolving range of personal mobile devices with capabilities only dreamed of less than a decade ago.

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2.2.c. Content and Copyright - understanding copyright

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2.2.c. Content and Copyright - understanding copyright

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I agree with Ollie and with Maria Pallante

“It’s one of those life skills now, right? When you graduate from high school or college, you should know how to read a map, you should know how to use GPS, you should know a little bit about copyright. If you are somebody who is going to be in a field where you will encounter copyrighted materials all the time, you should know more. If you’re going to be an artist or musician and you’re getting a red-hot degree in the performing arts, you should know a lot. And I don’t think that’s quite the case - I don’t think it’s been built into the curricula.”
- Maria Pallante, U.S. Register for Copyright

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2.2.b. Content and Copyright - 7 things you didn't know about Wikipedia

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2.2.b. Content and Copyright - 7 things you didn't know about Wikipedia

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I usually use Wikipedia with my students to find informations.

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2.2.a. Content and Copyright - reliability of digital content

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2.2.a. Content and Copyright - reliability of digital content

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My colleagues have already mentioned all the strange informations of the website.

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2.1.e. Searching the Internet - searching the future internet

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2.1.e. Searching the Internet - searching the future internet

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I ve never used Google Alerts. It is a great tool.

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2.1.d. Searching the Internet - hidden gems

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2.1.d. Searching the Internet - hidden gems

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2.1.c. Searching the Internet - advanced search

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2.1.c. Searching the Internet - advanced search

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2.1.b. Searching the Internet - improving your search

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2.1.b. Searching the Internet - improving your search

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I usually use keywords . I think it is very important.

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2.1.a. Searching the Internet - types of search engines

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2.1.a. Searching the Internet - types of search engines

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Only GOOGLE

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2. How to use digital resources/content?

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2. How to use digital resources/content?

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I love technology but i am not an expert. I love to share with others ideas and special articles. I am trying hard to create videos for the projects in our school and i love it .

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I agree with Ollie's analysis and with the 5 suggested principles that we should focus on:

Values -Resilience ·Embracing change ·Innovation ·Remaining positive.

As Olie said "...technology is not going to make teaching easier, it's going to make it different"

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I haven't had an online interview before. In Greece is not common in puplic schools. I have not a Linkedin profile .

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"There is no future in any job. The future lies in
the person who holds the job." - George W. Crane

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"There is no future in any job. The future lies in
the person who holds the job." - George W. Crane

One of my primary complaints with higher education is that they tend to prepare students for jobs of the past. The way a Midwesterner would phrase it, "they are constantly shooting behind the duck."

Similarly, whenever a column is written about the best paying jobs of the future, jobs like civil engineers, registered nurses, and computer system analysts, they are all jobs that currently exist today.

Yes, many of these jobs will still exist in the future, but every one of them will morph and change as technology and communication systems make their impact.

As an example, technology research firm IDC predicts the amount of data businesses will have access to will grow 50-fold over the next decade. As data becomes cheaper, faster, and more pervasive, the nature of our work begins to change as well.

The first wave of baby boomers has now turned 65. As this generation greys, their needs will change. Their growing numbers and increasing medical needs will require a different kind of health care professionals to take care of them.

As a rule of thumb, 60% of the jobs 10 years from now haven't been invented yet. With that in mind, I've decided to pull together a list of 55 jobs that will be in high demand in the future.
Jobs Before 2020
Many of the changes we see today will cause new jobs to materialize quickly. This first section deals will new positions that will likely be spawned within the next 10 years.

1. Augmented Reality Architects - Much like the paint we put on houses and the flavorings we add to food, the future will seem boring if our reality hasn't been augmented in some way.

2. Alternative Currency Bankers - According to Javelin Strategies, 20% of all online trades are already being done with alternative currencies. The stage is being set for next-gen alt-currency banks.

3. Seed Capitalists - In the startup business world there is a huge gulf between initial concept and fundable prototypes. This dearth of funding options will require an entirely new profession. Seed capitalists will specialize in high-risk startups. Counter to todays investment-world thinking, if they get more than 100% return on their investments, they will be docked for not taking enough risk.

4. Global System Architects - Our systems are transitioning from national systems into global systems. Architects of these new global systems will play a crucial role in future global politics. More details here.

5. Locationists - People who specialize in adding the relevance of "place" to our global online communities.

6. Waste Data Managers - To insure data integrity in today's fast evolving information storage industry, multiple redundancies have been built into the system. Achieving more streamline data storage in the future will require de-duplication specialists who can rid our data centers of needless copies and frivolous clutter.

7. Urban Agriculturalists - Why ship food all the way around the world when it can be grown next door. Next generation produce-growing operations will be located underground, often below the grocery stores where the produce will be sold directly to customers. More details here.

8. Business Colony Managers - The average person that turns 30 years old in the U.S. today has worked 11 different jobs. In just 10 years, the average person who turns 30 will have worked 200-300 different projects. Business colonies are an evolving new kind of organizational structure designed around matching talent with pending work projects. The operation will revolve around some combination of resident people based in a physical facility and a non-resident virtual workforce, with some opting to forgo the cost of the physical facility entirely. People who can effectively manage this type of operation will be in high demand. More details here.

9. Competition Producers - One of the hottest new trends will be to design incentive-based competitions to solve some of the world's biggest problems. Paving the way has been X-Prize Foundation's Pete Diamandis and the success of the Ansari X-Prize. In the future, every major corporation will have their name on a major prize competition. Similar to buying the naming rights to a stadium, a well-orchestrated competition has far-reaching branding potential.

10. Avatar Designers - Next generation avatars will become indistinguishable from humans on a two-dimensional screen. However, avatars will only live in the computer world for a short time longer. It is only a matter of time before they emerge from the computer and appear as visual beings, walking around among us. Once an avatar goes through the radical metamorphosis from an image that we see on a screen to a three dimensional being that joins us for dinner, carries on conversations with our friends, and serves as a stand-in for us at meetings, we will see work start on an even more realistic avatar, one that we can touch. More details here.

11. Avatar Relationship Managers - As the foibles of humanity enter the realm of autonomous, freethinking avatars, people will find it necessary to both manage and limit the often dangerous relationships that avatars get themselves into.

12. 3D Printing Engineers - Classes in 3D printing are already being introduced into high schools and the demand for printer-produced products will skyrocket. The trend will be for these worker-less workshops to enter virtually every field of manufacturing, stemming the tide of outsourcing, at the same time, driving the need for competent technicians and engineers to design and maintain the next wave of this technology.

13. 3D Food-Printer Engineers - Pushing the envelope for 3D printer technology even further, will be the coming age of food printers. Converting 3D printers to work with cartridges containing food-stocks will prove difficult and demanding on a number of levels. Those who can solve this kind of problem will be in high demand. More details here.

14. Book-to-App Converters - Over the coming months we will begin to see a form of competition brewing between books and apps. With both being information products that we interface with differently, we will begin to see a large scale effort to convert existing books and literature into an interactive app, similar to the current effort to convert popular literature from print to audiobooks. More details here.

15. Social Education Specialists - We learn from each other. But what is it that we learn from others that is valuable? And how do we structure a circle of friends, as a highly influential group that we rely heavily on, to give us a constant stream of truly valuable information and advice.

16. Privacy Managers - If you think you have lost most of your privacy already, we've only scratched the surface. We are all terminally human, and as such, we do not always make good decisions. Striking the perfect privacy-transparency balance will require far more than amateur insights. It will require a privacy professional. More details here.

17. Wind Turbine Repair Techs - The proliferation of windmills around the world will dramatically drive the demand for repair techs who are not afraid of heights and can solve whatever new problems this fledgling new industry blows their way.

18. Data Hostage Specialists - Holding people as hostages is very messy. But holding data hostage is a less-risky crime that can be done remotely, and has the potential for far greater rewards. This is especially true if the country you're living in condones your actions. This type of activity will give rise to the likes of data-hostage negotiators, data-retrieval specialists, and damage-control analysts.

19. Smart Dust Programmers - In it's simplest form, smart dust consists of a sensor combined with a wireless transmitter and some kind of power source. Many are envisioning the power to come from wireless RF signals. The reason it is referred to as "smart dust" is because the technology is shrinking in size until it reaches the particle size of dust. Future designs for smart dust involve detecting everything from moisture content, to soil temperature, to chemical composition. More details here.

20. Personality Services - Talking back and forth to a computer that has a machine-like voice is boring. But being able to download specific "personality packages" will add an entirely new level of engagement for basement-dwellers everywhere. The hottest personalities to download will be offshoots of existing characters or celebrities such as being able to download a David Letterman personality, a Homer Simpson personality, or perhaps even a Darth Vader personality.

21. Smart Contact Developers - The idea of "smart" contact lenses, the kind that can superimpose information on the wearer's field of view has been around for a while. But the first iteration of smart contact lenses is already on the market and industry execs are beginning to generate a wide array of possible applications. More details here.

22. Nano-Medics - The medical problems most people have can be traced to a single cell or a small group of them. Health professionals capable of working on the nano-level, both in designing diagnostics systems, remedies, and monitoring solutions will be in high demand.

23. New Science Philosopher-Ethicists - Every new technology creates its own set of unintended consequences, and people who can ask the tough questions and demand deeper introspection will be in high demand. Industry sages will serve as both a conscience and a guide for decision-makers everywhere.

24. Organ Agents - The demand for transplantable organs is exploding and people who can track down and deliver healthy organs will be in hot demand.

25. Octogenarian Service Providers - As the population continues the age we will have record numbers of people living into their 80s, 90s, and 100s. This mushrooming group of active oldsters will provide a demand for goods and services currently not being addressed in today's marketplace.

26. Elevated Tube Transport Engineers - The next big infrastructure project on planet earth will be a human and cargo transport system designed around a network of vacuum tubes with maglev tracks. Operating at less than 2% of the cost of today's car, truck, jet, ship, and train systems, this emerging tube transport system will be a massive undertaking that demands talented new-age thinkers for decades to come. More details here.
The Dismantlers
Over the coming years will see a number of industries dismantled requiring a skilled workforce of talented people who can perform this task in the least disruptive way. Most of these industries have been built around aging facilities and infrastructure that will become unnecessary and unsustainable in the future. These will include:
27. Prison System Dismantlers - 28. Hospital and Healthcare Dismantlers - More details here. 30. Government Agency Dismantlers - More details here. More details here. Jobs in 2030 and Beyond
29. Income Tax System Dismantlers - More details here and here.

31. Education System Dismantlers - More details here and here and here.

32. College and University Dismantlers - More details here and here and here.

A number of technologies currently on the drawing board will require a bit longer lead time before the industry comes into its own. Here are a few examples of these kinds of jobs:

33. Drone Dispatchers - Drones will be used to deliver groceries and pizzas, deliver water, remove trash and sewage, monitor traffic and pollution, and change out the batteries on our homes. Skilled dispatchers for future drones will be high demand. More details here.

34. Brain Quants - Where the stock market manipulators of the past meet the brain manipulators of the future to usurp control of Madison Avenue.

35. Tree-Jackers - Plant and tree alteration specialists, who manipulate growth patterns, create grow-to-fit wood products, color-changing leaves, and personalized fruit. More details here.

36. Plant Psychologists - An entire profession dedicated to undo the damage caused by the Tree-Jackers

37. Extinction Revivalists - People who revive extinct animals.

38. Robotic Earthworm Drivers - The most valuable land on the planet will soon be the landfills because that is where we have buried our most valuable natural resources. In the future, robotic earthworms will be used to silently mine the landfills and replace whatever is extracted with high-grade soil.

39. Gravity Pullers - The first wave of people to unlock the code for influencing gravity.

40. Time Hackers - If we think cyber terrorists are a pain, it will seem like nothing compared to devious jerry-riggers who start manipulating the time fabric of our lives.

41. Clone Ranchers - Raising "blank" humans will be similar in many respects to cattle ranching. But once a clone is selected, and the personality download is complete, the former clone will instantly be elevated to "human status."

42. Body Part & Limb Makers - The Organ Agents listed above will quickly find themselves out of work as soon as we figure out how to efficiently grow and mass produce our own organs from scratch.

43. Memory Augmentation Therapists - Entertainment is all about the great memories it creates. Creating a better grade of memories can dramatically change who we are and pave the way for an entirely new class of humans.

44. Time Brokers - Time Bank Traders - Where do you go when you run out of time? Naturally, to the time-bank, and take out a time-loan.

45. Space-Based Power System Designers - At some point, the burning of earth's natural resources for power will become a thing of the past. Space-based systems will capture and transmit power far more efficiently than anything currently in existence.

46. Geoengineers - Weather Control Specialists - We are moving past the age of meteorology and climatology to one where the true power-brokers will wield the forces of nature.

47. Plant Educators - An intelligent plant will be capable of re-engineering itself to meet the demands of tomorrow's marketplace. Plant educators will not work with lesson plans or PowerPoint presentations, but the learning process will be even more effective. More details here.

48. Nano-Weapons Specialists - Many of the weapons of the future will be too small to be seen by the human eye. And naturally, these will be the most dangerous. More details here.

49. Lip Designers - If you could have any lips in the world, what would they look like?

50. Mass Energy Storage Developers - As a society, we have become very good at generating electricity, but are still terrible at storing it from one day to the next. Once mass energy storage systems are developed and installed, our total energy needs will drop precipitously.

51. Earthquake Forecasters - Everything we know about the inside of the earth has been developed through indirect evidence. We have no maps of the center of the earth. We have no accurate diagrams, no understanding of motion, fluidity, or changes happening with any degree of accuracy. While scientists are developing skills to work with nanoscale precision on the earth's surface, the best we can muster below the surface is blindfolded guesswork done with 100-mile precision. What we don't know is literally killing us - over 226,000 killed in 2010 alone. But that will change over time as we begin to understand the inner working of the earth and accurately forecast when the next big quakes are about to hit. More details here.

52. "Heavy Air" Engineers - Compressed air is useful in a wide variety of ways. However, we have yet to figure out how to compress streams of air as they pass through our existing atmosphere. Once we do, it will create untold opportunity for non-surface based housing and transportation system, weather control, and other kinds of experimentation.
Final Thoughts
53. Robot Polishers - If we are going to have robots, they will invariably need to be polished.

54. Amnesia Surgeons - Doctors who are skilled in removing bad memories or destructive behavior.

55. Executioners for Virus-Builders - In the future, virus-builders who get caught will have a choice. They can either go to the electric chair, or spend some quality time with the Amnesia Surgeon.

The jobs and occupations listed above are just scratching the surface. This list is intended to help stretch your imagination and start you down a path of imagining your own future.

But I'd love to hear your thoughts. What am I missing? Where have I gone off the reservation and missed the big picture entirely? Are there better names for these professions? And most importantly, how can someone today prepare himself or herself for the changes to come?

Yes, this column includes far more questions than answers. But when it comes to understanding the future, it all begins with asking the right questions.

By Futurist Thomas Frey

Author of " Communicating with the Future " - the book that changes everything.

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"There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job." - George W. Crane One of my primary complaints with higher education is that they tend to prepare students for jobs of the past. The way a Midwesterner would phrase it, "they are constantly shooting behind the duck."

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It is difficult for me to imagine the future because the world is moving rapidly towards ubiquitous connectivity that will further change how and where people associate, gather and share information, and consume media

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Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech

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Experts predict the Internet will become 'like electricity' - less visible, yet more deeply embedded in people's lives for good and ill

Summary: 15 Theses About the Digital Future

The world is moving rapidly towards ubiquitous connectivity that will further change how and where people associate, gather and share information, and consume media. A canvassing of 2,558 experts and technology builders about where we will stand by the year 2025 finds striking patterns in their predictions. The invited respondents were identified in previous research about the future of the Internet, from those identified by the Pew Research Center's Internet Project, and solicited through major technology-oriented listservs. They registered their answers online between November 25, 2013 and January 13, 2014.

In their responses, these experts foresee an ambient information environment where accessing the Internet will be effortless and most people will tap into it so easily it will flow through their lives "like electricity." They predict mobile, wearable, and embedded computing will be tied together in the Internet of Things, allowing people and their surroundings to tap into artificial intelligence-enhanced cloud-based information storage and sharing. As Dan Lynch, founder of Interop and former director of computing facilities at SRI International, wrote, "The most useful impact is the ability to connect people. From that, everything flows."

To a notable extent, the experts agree on the technology change that lies ahead, even as they disagree about its ramifications. Most believe there will be:

A global, immersive, invisible, ambient networked computing environment built through the continued proliferation of smart sensors, cameras, software, databases, and massive data centers in a world-spanning information fabric known as the Internet of Things.

"Augmented reality" enhancements to the real-world input that people perceive through the use of portable/wearable/implantable technologies.

Disruption of business models established in the 20th century (most notably impacting finance, entertainment, publishers of all sorts, and education).

Tagging, databasing, and intelligent analytical mapping of the physical and social realms.

These experts expect existing positive and negative trends to extend and expand in the next decade, revolutionizing most human interaction, especially affecting health, education, work, politics, economics, and entertainment. Most say they believe the results of that connectivity will be primarily positive. However, when asked to describe the good and bad aspects of the future they foresee, many of the experts can also clearly identify areas of concern, some of them extremely threatening. Heightened concerns over interpersonal ethics, surveillance, terror, and crime, may lead societies to question how best to establish security and trust while retaining civil liberties.

Overall, these expert predictions can be grouped into 15 identifiable theses about our digital future - eight of which we characterize as being hopeful, six as concerned, and another as a kind of neutral, sensible piece of advice that the choices that are made now will shape the future. Many involve similar views of the ways technology will change, but differ in their sense of the impact of those technical advances. They are listed below, numbered for the sake of convenience to readers navigating this document, not in a rank ordering.

More-hopeful theses

1) Information sharing over the Internet will be so effortlessly interwoven into daily life that it will become invisible, flowing like electricity, often through machine intermediaries.

David Clark, a senior research scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, noted, "Devices will more and more have their own patterns of communication, their own 'social networks,' which they use to share and aggregate information, and undertake automatic control and activation. More and more, humans will be in a world in which decisions are being made by an active set of cooperating devices. The Internet (and computer-mediated communication in general) will become more pervasive but less explicit and visible. It will, to some extent, blend into the background of all we do."

Joe Touch, director at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, predicted, "The Internet will shift from the place we find cat videos to a background capability that will be a seamless part of how we live our everyday lives. We won't think about 'going online' or 'looking on the Internet' for something - we'll just be online, and just look."

2) The spread of the Internet will enhance global connectivity that fosters
more planetary relationships and less ignorance.

Bryan Alexander, senior fellow at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, wrote, "It will be a world more integrated than ever before. We will see more planetary friendships, rivalries, romances, work teams, study groups, and collaborations."

Paul Jones, a professor at the University of North Carolina and founder of ibiblio.org, responded, "Television let us see the Global Village, but the Internet let us be actual Villagers."

Tim Bray, an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and technology industry veteran, noted, "I expect the miasma of myth and ignorance and conspiracy theory to recede to dark corners of the discourse of civilization, where nice people don't go. The change in the emotional landscape conferred by people being able to communicate very cheaply irrespective of geography is still only dimly understood."

3) The Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and big data will make people more aware of their world and their own behavior.

Patrick Tucker, author of The Naked Future: What Happens In a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?, wrote, "When the cost of collecting information on virtually every interaction falls to zero, the insights that we gain from our activity, in the context of the activity of others, will fundamentally change the way we relate to one another, to institutions, and with the future itself. We will become far more knowledgeable about the consequences of our actions; we will edit our behavior more quickly and intelligently."

Judith Donath, a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, responded, "We'll have a picture of how someone has spent their time, the depth of their commitment to their hobbies, causes, friends, and family. This will change how we think about people, how we establish trust, how we negotiate change, failure, and success."

4) Augmented reality and wearable devices will be implemented to monitor and give quick feedback on daily life, especially tied to personal health.

Daren C. Brabham, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California, predicted, "We will grow accustomed to seeing the world through multiple data layers. This will change a lot of social practices, such as dating, job interviewing and professional networking, and gaming, as well as policing and espionage."

Aron Roberts, software developer at the University of California-Berkeley, said, "We may well see wearable devices and/or home and workplace sensors that can help us make ongoing lifestyle changes and provide early detection for disease risks, not just disease. We may literally be able to adjust both medications and lifestyle changes on a day-by-day basis or even an hour-by-hour basis, thus enormously magnifying the effectiveness of an ever more understaffed medical delivery system."

5) Political awareness and action will be facilitated and more peaceful change and public uprisings like the Arab Spring will emerge.

Rui Correia, director of Netday Namibia, a non-profit supporting innovations in information technology for education and development, wrote, "With mobile technologies and information-sharing apps becoming ubiquitous, we can expect some significant improvement in the awareness of otherwise illiterate and ill-informed rural populations to opportunities missed out by manipulative and corrupt governments. Like the Arab Spring, we can expect more and more uprisings to take place as people become more informed and able to communicate their concerns."

Nicole Ellison, an associate professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, predicted, "As more of the global population comes online, there will be increased awareness of the massive disparities in access to health care, clear water, education, food, and human rights."

6) The spread of the 'Ubernet' will diminish the meaning of borders, and new 'nations' of those with shared interests may emerge and exist beyond the capacity of current nation-states to control.

David Hughes, an Internet pioneer, who from 1972 worked in individual to/from digital telecommunications, responded, "All 7-plus billion humans on this planet will sooner or later be 'connected' to each other and fixed destinations, via the Uber(not Inter)net. That can lead to the diminished power over people's lives within nation-states. When every person on this planet can reach, and communicate two-way, with every other person on this planet, the power of nation-states to control every human inside its geographic boundaries may start to diminish."

JP Rangaswami, chief scientist for Salesforce.com, observed, "The problems that humanity now faces are problems that can't be contained by political borders or economic systems. Traditional structures of government and governance are therefore ill-equipped to create the sensors, the flows, the ability to recognize patterns, the ability to identify root causes, the ability to act on the insights gained, the ability to do any or all of this at speed, while working collaboratively across borders and time zones and sociopolitical systems and cultures. From climate change to disease control, from water conservation to nutrition, from the resolution of immune-system-weakness conditions to solving the growing obesity problem, the answer lies in what the Internet will be in decades to come. By 2025, we will have a good idea of its foundations."

7) The Internet will become 'the Internets' as access, systems, and principles are renegotiated

David Brin, author and futurist, responded, "There will be many Internets. Mesh networks will self-form and we'll deputize sub-selves to dwell in many places."

Sean Mead, senior director of strategy and analytics for Interbrand, predicted, "The Internet will generate several new related networks. Some will require verified identification to access, while others will promise increased privacy."

Ian Peter, pioneer Internet activist and Internet rights advocate, wrote, "The Internet will fragment. Global connectivity will continue to exist, but through a series of separate channels controlled by a series of separate protocols. Our use of separate channels for separate applications will be necessitated by security problems, cyber policy of nations and corporations, and our continued attempts to find better ways to do things."

8) An Internet-enabled revolution in education will spread more opportunities, with less money spent on real estate and teachers.

The biggest impact on the world will be universal access to all human knowledge. The smartest person in the world currently could well be stuck behind a plow in India or China. Enabling that person - and the millions like him or her - will have a profound impact on the development of the human race. Cheap mobile devices will be available worldwide, and educational tools like the Khan Academy will be available to everyone. This will have a huge impact on literacy and numeracy and will lead to a more informed and more educated world population. Hal Varian, chief economist for Google

A generally hopeful summary comes from Doc Searls, journalist and director of ProjectVRM at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, observed, "Of course, there will be bad acting by some, taking advantage of organizational vulnerabilities and gaming systems in other ways. Organizations in the meantime will continue rationalizing negative externalities, such as we see today with pollution of the Internet's pathways by boundless wasted advertising messages, and bots working to game the same business. But ... civilization deals with bad acting through development of manners, norms, laws and regulations. Expect all of those to emerge and evolve over the coming years. But don't expect the Internet to go away ... Will the Internet make it possible for our entire civilization to collapse together, in one big awful heap? Possibly. But the Internet has already made it possible for us to use one of our unique graces - the ability to share knowledge - for good, and to a degree never before possible."

Less-hopeful theses

9) Dangerous divides between haves and have-nots may expand, resulting in resentment and possible violence.

Oscar Gandy, an emeritus professor at the Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania, explained, "We have to think seriously about the kinds of conflicts that will arise in response to the growing inequality enabled and amplified by means of networked transactions that benefit smaller and smaller segments of the global population. Social media will facilitate and amplify the feelings of loss and abuse. They will also facilitate the sharing of examples and instructions about how to challenge, resist, and/or punish what will increasingly come to be seen as unjust."

10) Abuses and abusers will 'evolve and scale.' Human nature isn't changing; there's laziness, bullying, stalking, stupidity, pornography, dirty tricks, crime, and those who practice them have new capacity to make life miserable for others.

Llewellyn Kriel, CEO and editor in chief of TopEditor International Media Services, predicted, "Everything - every thing - will be available online with price tags attached. Cyber-terrorism will become commonplace. Privacy and confidentiality of any and all personal will become a thing of the past. Online 'diseases' - mental, physical, social, addictions (psycho-cyber drugs) - will affect families and communities and spread willy-nilly across borders. The digital divide will grow and worsen beyond the control of nations or global organizations such as the UN. This will increasingly polarize the planet between haves and have-nots. Global companies will exploit this polarization. Digital criminal networks will become realities of the new frontiers. Terrorism, both by organizations and individuals, will be daily realities. The world will become less and less safe, and only personal skills and insights will protect individuals."

An antispam and security architect predicted, "There will be an erosion of privacy and the use of dirty-tricks social media will emerge more and more in election campaigns. Abusers evolve and scale far more than regular Internet users."

A retired management consultant to a large international corporation wrote, "There will be greater group-think, group-speak and mob mentality ... More uninformed individuals will influence others to the detriment of standard of living and effective government."

11) Pressured by these changes, governments and corporations will try to assert power - and at times succeed - as they invoke security and cultural norms.

Paul Babbitt, an associate professor at Southern Arkansas University, predicted, "Governments will become much more effective in using the Internet as an instrument of political and social control. That is, filters will be increasingly valuable and important, and effective and useful filters will be able to charge for their services. People will be more than happy to trade the free-wheeling aspect common to many Internet sites for more structured and regulated environments."

Anoop Ghanwani, a distinguished engineer at Dell, said, "Regulation will always stand in the way of anything significant happening."

12) People will continue - sometimes grudgingly - to make tradeoffs favoring convenience and perceived immediate gains over privacy; and privacy will be something only the upscale will enjoy.

An anonymous respondent wrote, "Yes, the information we want will increasingly find its way to us, as networks learn to accurately predict our interests and weaknesses. But that will also tempt us to stop seeking out knowledge, narrowing our horizons, even as we delve evermore deep. The privacy premium may also be a factor: only the relatively well-off (and well-educated) will know how to preserve their privacy in 2025."

13) Humans and their current organizations may not respond quickly enough to challenges presented by complex networks.

Randy Kluver, an associate professor of communication at Texas A&M University, responded, "The most neglected aspect of the impact is in the geopolitics of the Internet. There are very few experts focused on this, and yet the rise of digital media promises significant disruption to relations between and among states. Some of the really important dimensions include the development of transnational political actors/movements, the rise of the virtual state, the impact of digital diplomacy efforts, the role of information in undermining state privilege (think Wikileaks), and ... the development of cyber-conflict (in both symmetric and asymmetric forms)."

A librarian shared a quote from Albert Einstein: "It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity."

14) Most people are not yet noticing the profound changes today's communications networks are already bringing about; these networks will be even more disruptive in the future.

Nishant Shah, visiting professor at the Centre for Digital Cultures at Leuphana University, Germany, observed, "It is going to systemically change our understandings of being human, being social, and being political. It is not merely a tool of enforcing existing systems; it is a structural change in the systems that we are used to. And this means that we are truly going through a paradigm shift - which is celebratory for what it brings, but it also produces great precariousness because existing structures lose meaning and valence, and hence, a new world order needs to be produced in order to accommodate for these new modes of being and operation. The greatest impact of the Internet is what we are already witnessing, but it is going to accelerate."

A summary of the less-hopeful theses comes from Bob Briscoe, chief researcher in networking and infrastructure for British Telecom, who predicted, "The greatest impacts of the Internet will continue to be the side-effects that tower so high that we do not notice they are continuing to grow far above us: 1) More people will lose their grounding in the realities of life and work, instead considering those aspects of the world amenable to expression as information as if they were the whole world. 2) The scale of the interactions possible over the Internet will tempt more and more people into more interactions than they are capable of sustaining, which on average will continue to lead each interaction to be more superficial. 3) Given there is strong evidence that people are much more willing to commit petty crimes against people and organizations when they have no face-to-face interaction, the increasing proportion of human interactions mediated by the Internet will continue the trend toward less respect and less integrity in our relations."

Advice: Make good choices today

15) Foresight and accurate predictions can make a difference; 'The best way to predict the future is to invent it.'

Robert Cannon, Internet law and policy expert, wrote, "The Internet, automation, and robotics will disrupt the economy as we know it. How will we provide for the humans who can no longer earn money through labor? The opportunities are simply tremendous. Information, the ability to understand that information, and the ability to act on that information will be available ubiquitously ... Or we could become a 'brave new world' where the government (or corporate power) knows everything about everyone everywhere and every move can be foreseen, and society is taken over by the elite with control of the technology... The good news is that the technology that promises to turn our world on its head is also the technology with which we can build our new world. It offers an unbridled ability to collaborate, share, and interact. 'The best way to predict the future is to invent it.' It is a very good time to start inventing the future."

Sonigitu Asibong Ekpe, a consultant with the AgeCare Foundation, a non-profit organization, observed, "The most significant impact of the Internet is getting us to imagine different paths that the future may take. These paths help us to be better prepared for long-term contingencies; by identifying key indicators, and amplifying signals of change, they help us ensure that our decisions along the way are flexible enough to accommodate change... That billions more people are poised to come online in the emerging economies seems certain. Yet much remains uncertain: from who will have access, how, when, and at what price to the Internet's role as an engine for innovation and the creation of commercial, social, and human value. As users, industry players, and policymakers, the interplay of decisions that we make today and in the near future will determine the evolution of the Internet and the shape it takes by 2025, in both intended and unintended ways. Regardless of how the future unfolds, the Internet will evolve in ways we can only begin to imagine. By allowing ourselves to explore and rehearse divergent and plausible futures for the Internet, not only do we prepare for any future, we can also help shape it for the better."

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I agree with the 10 items from the Mashable website. In recent years technology has become part of our life so it is important to possess these skills. However we should care about our internet safety.

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I am working for 25 years. For the last 18 years i am working in Pylos, Messinia. 1st kindergarten of Pylos is my school's name. I am not an expert in technology but i want to learn and motivate my pupils and my colleagues.

We only have a pc in our class.

This is my school in Google Earth

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I am Olga Keramida from Greece. I am a kindergarten teacher and i am glad to participate in this course