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The Future of Work

In my high school, it was mandatory that we researched a job that was in our Career Cluster. our junior year, we all had to write a research paper on this job and give a small presentation giving more information about it. Most people learned a lot about the job that they intended to pursue. Our senior year, we worked with people in that career and create a product.

I first chose to write about rocketry because I wanted to work for NASA. I learned a lot about rocketry, but it wasn't until I interned at the IV&V Facility in Fairmont that i learned that it wasn't for me. I wanted to be a math teacher, so I tried to incorporate rocketry into a math lesson (which really wasn't hard). I made a rocket launcher out of PVC piping and a pop bottle and had the students make paper rockets to launch. I learned how to make a lesson plan and got a better understanding of what it takes to be a teacher.

Paper Rocket Experiments

Double Entry Journal #1

Quote:

“Pundits may be asking if the Internet is bad for our children’s mental development, but the better question is whether the form of learning and knowledge-making we are instilling in our children is useful to their future.”     -Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade

Response:

It’s hard to imagine finding a wide variety of information without the internet. For my generation, the internet was a huge part of my learning. I can’t imagine how much it will mean in the future. To think that some are afraid of letting students use the internet is mind-boggling. Yes, the internet has some things that are not kid friendly, but many schools have sites blocked for this reason. Without the internet, these students will be behind in the world of today. Most jobs are connected to the internet in some way today, but the future will further instill this fact. letting our students use the internet helps them better understand the world around them and essentially, letting our students hold the world in the palm of their hands.

         -The Evolution of the Internet Marketer

Greetings and Salutations

       Hello, I am Nick Powell. I am from Mannington, WV. I graduated from North Marion High School in '11. I went to West Virginia Wesleyan College for the 2011-12 school year. I am currently studying Secondary Education(Math), and I am hoping to teach somewhere between 7th and 10th grade math.
       I have had teachers in the past that have had problems linking the ability to teach and the knowledge of the continent. I feel that I can link the two and do so in an entertaining way. I feel that I can answer the widely used questions by math students: "Where will I use this in the real world?" I think that a good way to do this is to create real world, interactive problems that the students can work on together.