The answers to these questions are as complex and multifaceted as any that educators face. This being the case, it would seem that training for work would be as valuable an educational component as training for school. As far was we can predict, work will mean vastly different things 20 years from now, or even ten years from now. These predictions have a profound impact for educators. For us, it's daunting just to try to envision the world as our fourth, second, or first graders will know it.
Educators are in the front lines.
In order to prepare our students, we need to embrace new technologies, accept new methods, and be willing to scrap our own closely held ideas and teaching styles to learn new ones. The technologies that 'Informate', shift more control of learning from the teacher to the student. Also, students, parents, and people in the larger world outside the classroom participate in the educational environment. Bringing the world outside inside provided all learners with expanded experiences and a global perspective. Level Appropriate Career Education Educators know that learning must be age appropriate in order to be successful.