«I was so inspired by the company at the outset, excited to be in a private organization that truly valued teachers as 21st
century knowledge workers.
Not exact matches
It includes the growth of professionalism and what has been called a «new class» of
knowledge workers and information specialists — growth that has, to say the least, occurred at the expense of the privileged position that clergy in past
centuries occupied within the professions.5
In today's
knowledge - based economy, high school students — the nation's future
workers — need what has become known as «21st -
century skills» in order to earn the kind of comfortable living that their high school diplomas alone once allowed.
Look for a school where you can do real - world projects, where you are given assessment and feedback on all the skills essential in this
century, and where you and your fellow students are provided with the workspaces and technology tools to become successful citizens and
knowledge workers.
The notion of «really useful
knowledge» was originated from the
workers» awareness of the need for self - education in the early 19th
century.
This concern might be the real reason for much of the opposition to technology in education, but like the automation that the manufacturing sector faced in the previous
century, these
knowledge workers will have to either adapt or become obsolete.