Orientation will remain the centrally most significant skill that students must learn. Without good orientation skills, there is little hope for independence. No matter what the future, the student with good orientation is more likely to succeed. Global positioning satellites will obviously change how we teach orientation. Work in the future will require a high level of problem solving ability.
Good orientation requires good problem solving skills.
Problem solving, having good analytical thinking skills is so important for the future success of our students that it must be elevated to a central position in our lesson plans. Problem solving has to become a significant outcome, as important as cane skills, in our curriculum. Related to this is the skill of information gathering, and information assessment. Students will have to learn about the internet and how to use it. We will have to plug these students into the communications age.