DocumentCode :
747134
Title :
Digital Technology and the Skills Shortage
Author :
Holmes, Neville
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput., Tasmania Univ., Hobart, Tas.
Volume :
40
Issue :
3
fYear :
2007
fDate :
3/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage :
100
Lastpage :
99
Abstract :
Governments and businesses in many advanced countries complain about the current skills shortage. They blame it for high wages, lowered economic growth, outsourcing, the need to import skilled workers, the failure of medical care, the high rates of car accidents and unemployment, and pretty well any instance of technical malfunction and project failure. The irony of this is that digital technology could be used both to raise the average skill level of most young people and also to depopulate jails by using the same technique to rehabilitate the misfits who so often end up there. To achieve this, however, our whole approach to education must be redesigned, the education profession reorganized, the school system remodeled, and parents constrained to share the responsibility for their children´s education. Even then, it would take a generation for the investment to start paying off
Keywords :
educational computing; digital technology; education profession reorganization; school system; Animals; Cats; Displays; Dogs; Education; Instruments; Microcomputers; Natural languages; Rhythm; Writing; computers and society; computing profession;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Computer
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0018-9162
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2007.88
Filename :
4134010
Link To Document :
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