Please reflect on the information technologies and careers you saw today on our field trip. How may this information be conveyed to the students in your classroom?
I think that the students would be advised that some business degrees with a minor in an IT wound serve them well. Also the statement that our tour guide made that if something was worth doing it should be done well, because those people get the high paying jobs.
I enjoyed the trip to Orrick. It helped to show the variety of careers in today's society that require IT skills and education. Lawyers, businessmen, and technical support employees all require a mastery of different computer and technology skills. Students interested in law and business should also consider a background in computer science of information technoloy.
It was nice to see that ORRICK considered many different tyoes of educational backgrounds for IT jobs. A student does not have to get a 4 year degree, he/she can obtain a two year tech degree with a few cetifications and be strongly considered. Students like to hear less school and more money.
I think that the Vista training was great. This would have been very helpful 3 years ago when I took my first on-line course. I liked the videos showing how VRML is used, but a couple were a little long and wouldn't hold the student's attention. The tour was great. I think it is wonderful how they were able to use the building and retain it's history.
Students need to be aware that in our area there are technology careers that are international and offer very tempting salaries. Many think that they must get out of the area to find good jobs. Awareness of what is out there is very important.
After visiting Orrick, it became even more aware to myself that the world we are preparing our students is a more agressive work place. Technology is very fast passed and even for so since I graduated just 10 years ago from high school.
I saw if we do not educate students to be totally computer literate, they will by totally lost in almost any profession in the 21st century. Beside the field of study, students need a degree in computer science.
The trip to Orrick was interesting. It pointed out the fact that computer literacy is necessary for all jobs in today's world and will continue to become even more important.
We need to make sure all students are computer literate ... and the fields of business and computers will be the "biggies" in the future.
Pay wise ... these are the jobs to go after
Also, seeing the inside of the building was very interesting! Growing up in the area and having seen the building before ... it was fascinating!
I enjoyed the trip. I live in Wheeling and have not had a tour of the orrick company. The place is amazing. I feel that the students would benefit from the information gathered by the teachers at the tour.
Although I'm not sure where this is going, I am pretty good with uncertainties at this point in public education. Supposing that change is constant, one should probably be a lot of things in this profession, including, but not limited to resilient, determined, flexible, and above all, visionary for one's students. The field trip reminded me of this.
My thoughts concerning the field trip revolved around such topics like diversity in the work place and where technology education, regardless of content area, had missed the target for the past 15 years. An enterprise, like Orrick, takes a lot of professional technology expertise in many areas.
All along, we should have been training students to be the bridge between actual careers and technology and not to be too dependent upon the "techies". The problem with that is that tech people often like the idea that people rely on them and that is "job security". Rather, we should be reliant upon our own skills to bridge gaps in the workplace. Our guide assured me that my thinking was right on target. My "ah ha" moment occured when our guide said, "major in business, and minor in computer science." For me, the field trip validated much of what I was thinking already.
I really enjoyed touring Orrick. I loved the way they remodeled the building. I also liked the statement that David made about something worth doing is worth doing well. I am excited about learning VRML and hope to use it to enhance my teaching.
Seeing the technology present here reminds me that technology really is the way of the future and that we really have to hammer on kids to learn this sort of technology in order to be ready for the future. If we could encourage kids to pursue jobs in the technology field, I think we could make a vast improvement in the number of jobs in the IT field.
Hoody says I thought that Orrick was very informative and opened my eyes to a committment a world wide company is making in our area. The building consrtuction was very interesting and the tour guide was well informed of the history and overall knowledge of the situation. Comment of the day - Why does only one person in the county have the only key to all the technology. AHHHH - Job Security!
I was amazed to the technology available in this area. I was a little dismayed as to the answer of how I can encourge high school students to seek a job in IT. I was under the understanding that it took a bachlor's to begin. Which is fine but what do I do to persuade the students to look into credits for IT. However, it was interesting and would like to bring interested students on a field trip.
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I think that the students would be advised that some business degrees with a minor in an IT wound serve them well. Also the statement that our tour guide made that if something was worth doing it should be done well, because those people get the high paying jobs.
I enjoyed the trip to Orrick. It helped to show the variety of careers in today's society that require IT skills and education. Lawyers, businessmen, and technical support employees all require a mastery of different computer and technology skills. Students interested in law and business should also consider a background in computer science of information technoloy.
It was nice to see that ORRICK considered many different tyoes of educational backgrounds for IT jobs. A student does not have to get a 4 year degree, he/she can obtain a two year tech degree with a few cetifications and be strongly considered. Students like to hear less school and more money.
I think that the Vista training was great. This would have been very helpful 3 years ago when I took my first on-line course. I liked the videos showing how VRML is used, but a couple were a little long and wouldn't hold the student's attention. The tour was great. I think it is wonderful how they were able to use the building and retain it's history.
Students need to be aware that in our area there are technology careers that are international and offer very tempting salaries. Many think that they must get out of the area to find good jobs. Awareness of what is out there is very important.
After visiting Orrick, it became even more aware to myself that the world we are preparing our students is a more agressive work place. Technology is very fast passed and even for so since I graduated just 10 years ago from high school.
I saw if we do not educate students to be totally computer literate, they will by totally lost in almost any profession in the 21st century. Beside the field of study, students need a degree in computer science.
The trip to Orrick was interesting. It pointed out the fact that computer literacy is necessary for all jobs in today's world and will continue to become even more important.
We need to make sure all students are computer literate ... and the fields of business and computers will be the "biggies" in the future.
Pay wise ... these are the jobs to go after
Also, seeing the inside of the building was very interesting! Growing up in the area and having seen the building before ... it was fascinating!
I enjoyed the trip. I live in Wheeling and have not had a tour of the orrick company. The place is amazing. I feel that the students would benefit from the information gathered by the teachers at the tour.
Although I'm not sure where this is going, I am pretty good with uncertainties at this point in public education. Supposing that change is constant, one should probably be a lot of things in this profession, including, but not limited to resilient, determined, flexible, and above all, visionary for one's students. The field trip reminded me of this.
My thoughts concerning the field trip revolved around such topics like diversity in the work place and where technology education, regardless of content area, had missed the target for the past 15 years. An enterprise, like Orrick, takes a lot of professional technology expertise in many areas.
All along, we should have been training students to be the bridge between actual careers and technology and not to be too dependent upon the "techies". The problem with that is that tech people often like the idea that people rely on them and that is "job security". Rather, we should be reliant upon our own skills to bridge gaps in the workplace. Our guide assured me that my thinking was right on target. My "ah ha" moment occured when our guide said, "major in business, and minor in computer science." For me, the field trip validated much of what I was thinking already.
I really enjoyed touring Orrick. I loved the way they remodeled the building. I also liked the statement that David made about something worth doing is worth doing well. I am excited about learning VRML and hope to use it to enhance my teaching.
Seeing the technology present here reminds me that technology really is the way of the future and that we really have to hammer on kids to learn this sort of technology in order to be ready for the future. If we could encourage kids to pursue jobs in the technology field, I think we could make a vast improvement in the number of jobs in the IT field.
Hoody says I thought that Orrick was very informative and opened my eyes to a committment a world wide company is making in our area. The building consrtuction was very interesting and the tour guide was well informed of the history and overall knowledge of the situation.
Comment of the day - Why does only one person in the county have the only key to all the technology. AHHHH - Job Security!
I was amazed to the technology available in this area. I was a little dismayed as to the answer of how I can encourge high school students to seek a job in IT. I was under the understanding that it took a bachlor's to begin. Which is fine but what do I do to persuade the students to look into credits for IT.
However, it was interesting and would like to bring interested students on a field trip.
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