{"id":98852,"date":"2026-07-14T11:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=98852"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:12:40","slug":"teachers-ban-it-employers-demand-it-mayer-the-shifting-career-ladder-dakkak-sigelmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/07\/14\/teachers-ban-it-employers-demand-it-mayer-the-shifting-career-ladder-dakkak-sigelmen\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Teachers ban it. Employers demand it.&#8221; [Mayer] + &#8220;The Shifting Career Ladder&#8221;\u00a0[Dakkak &#038; Sigelmen]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Embedded post\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/embed\/feed\/update\/urn:li:share:7479609119331512320\" width=\"504\" height=\"1530\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">?<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/chrismayer01_highereducation-artificialintelligence-futureofemployability-activity-7480946379310145536-_5hZ?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAHSQ2kBfElT_TLATvS_bcdFygMCtJ8a8Iw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8220;Teachers ban it. Employers demand it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also relevant\/see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nafez.substack.com\/p\/the-shifting-career-ladder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Shifting Career Ladder<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from nafez.substack.com by Nafez Dakkak<br \/>\n<em>AI is changing how work works and quietly removing the pathways through which young people learn to become experts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">AI is reshaping how people build skills, enter professions, and move along the career ladder and through the labour market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In this conversation, I sit down with\u00a0Matt Sigelmen\u00a0founder of LightCast and now the President of Burning Glass Institute. Matt has dedicated his career to understanding the labor market and helping society improve the connections within in it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Matt and I explore why people and opportunities are often only \u201ca few skills apart,\u201d why entry-level work may be losing its traditional role as the first rung of expertise, and why schools, universities, and employers now need to rethink the pathways that turn potential into mastery.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Educators need to be deeply aligned with what these changes are, and they need to shift the AI discourse from \u201chow\u201d questions to \u201cwhat\u201d questions. What do we need to teach? What do we need to keep in the curriculum?<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>? &#8220;Teachers ban it. Employers demand it.&#8221; &nbsp; Also relevant\/see: The Shifting Career Ladder\u00a0&#8212; from nafez.substack.com by Nafez Dakkak AI is changing how work works and quietly removing the pathways through which young people learn to become experts. AI is reshaping how people build skills, enter professions, and move along the career ladder and through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[113,356,174,115,302,112,324,210,71,3,74,838,560,863,201,305,855,480,66,89,50,40,195,206,321,214,299,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-career-development","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-corporate-business-world","category-curriculum","category-emerging-technologies","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-leadership","category-learning-experience-design","category-parents-guardians","category-pathways","category-policy","category-project-based-learning","category-skills","category-society","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-technologies-for-your-home","category-tools","category-trends","category-united-states","category-universities","category-workplace","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98852","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=98852"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98855,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98852\/revisions\/98855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}