Careers: What Will Future Jobs Look Like?
Careers: What Will Future Jobs Look Like?
Grade Level: 9th
Subject: Careers
Duration: 1 -2 (50 minute sessions)
DOK Level: 3
SAMR Level: 3
Indiana Standard:
PCC-2.2 Analyze career trends, options and opportunities for employment and entrepreneurial
endeavors for selected career clusters and pathways
Objective:
Students will be introduced to the concept that technology will change the working world as we know it today. Students will draw conclusions about specific careers that may undergo significant changes, thus changes in the careers available to them.
Essential Question:
- How has technology changed the world of work over the past 100 years?
- What new careers have been created as a result of these changes?
- What careers may disappear over the next 30 years and what careers may emerge?
Procedure:
- Students will view the Ted Talk entitled, What Will Future Jobs Look Like?
https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_what_will_future_jobs_look_like
2. Students will be randomly placed in a group of three. Students will examine three specific careers that currently exist and draw conclusions as to why each might be changed significantly or disappear. Students will hypothesize what jobs might be created based on the changes or disappearance of each of the careers they examined. Students will compile and organize all information on the Coggle Mind Mapping app.
Product or Assessment:
Students will submit a Coggle Mind Mapping illustration/ or other visual of their three careers with conclusions and hypotheses.
Students should also research how different movements in technology like AI (artificial intelligence) are affecting the trajectory of future jobs. They can describe what they feel will happen in the job market in regards to a particular emergent technology using the accessibility suggestions below.
Accommodations:
Students can examine one career for the stated assignment. Students may complete a verbal or written report of their selected career with their conclusions and their hypothesis. Other suggestions are listed in Accessibility in the sub-heading.
Additional Ideas/Enrichment:
Students can interview someone in the career field of their choice and complete the assignment above based on the discussion points from the interview.
Standards
Standard - 6.5.5.B
Differentiate the requirements for
different careers and occupations.
Standard - 13.1.5.C
Relate the impact of change to both
traditional and nontraditional
careers.
Standard - 13.1.8.B
Relate careers to personal interests,
abilities and aptitudes.
Standard - 13.1.11.C
Analyze how the changing roles of
individuals in the workplace relate
to new opportunities within career choices.
Accessibility
There are many ways in which this lesson can be made more accessible. For instance, there can be an adjustment of the workload where students are responsible for researching a single career instead of several. Student can choose how they will show what they discovered about the career(s) they researched, i.e., using a poster, a TED style talk presentation, a slideshow, a video, a written work or other. Students may choose to have their understanding of how this career may affect their own futures visually as a poster or other graphic. Students can compare how these future jobs are like or unlike jobs they know about currently.
Resources
Cognizant 21 Jobs of the Future and Cognizant 21 More Jobs of the Future (links below)