{"id":44389,"date":"2014-01-16T09:39:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T14:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=44389"},"modified":"2014-01-16T11:05:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T16:05:42","slug":"true-or-false-education-is-holding-millennials-back-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/01\/16\/true-or-false-education-is-holding-millennials-back-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"True&#8230;or false?  &#8220;Education is holding Millennials back&#8221; [Harris]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.clomedia.com\/2014\/01\/education-is-holding-millennials-back\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Education is holding Millennials back<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from blog.clomedia.com, interview with Donna Harris<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If you ask employers whether millenials are prepared for the workforce, there is no shortage of concern.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nBeing able to take charge of one\u2019s own career, question the status quo, initiate change, be creative, solve problems, operate independently and be entrepreneurial will become increasingly crucial for career success.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nToday\u2019s workers will have dozens of jobs in their lifetimes and need a vastly different toolkit to be successful \u2014 the ability to question the status quo, initiate change, be creative, solve problems, operate independently and be entrepreneurial become crucial.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThis massive change from a transactional, hierarchical, closed economy to one that is global, networked, transparent and entrepreneurial is a major challenge to our overall education system. We have large institutions, degrees take years to complete, students invest tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars, and yet employers are still saying that graduates are not well-suited for their needs. We have to rethink what we\u2019re teaching and how we\u2019re teaching it, with a fundamental understanding of the global economic shift we\u2019re in the midst of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education is holding Millennials back &#8212; from blog.clomedia.com, interview with Donna Harris Excerpt: If you ask employers whether millenials are prepared for the workforce, there is no shortage of concern. &#8230; Being able to take charge of one\u2019s own career, question the status quo, initiate change, be creative, solve problems, operate independently and be entrepreneurial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,86,159,343,347,237,533,95,3,46,74,7,510,436,310,20,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-change","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-education","category-education-reform","category-entrepreneurship","category-experimentation","category-global-globalization","category-higher-education","category-k-12-related","category-leadership","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-reinvent","category-staying-relevant","category-strategy","category-student-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44389"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44395,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44389\/revisions\/44395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}