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The Future of Work | Replay

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May 30, 2023 by Leave a Comment

Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order that they may provide for daily necessities and not live unproductive lives. Titus 3:14The Future of Work

What about the future of work? Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order that they may provide for daily necessities and not live unproductive lives. Titus 3:14

Career Stages

  • High school
  • Launching as an Adult can include college
  • Early Career
  • Late Career
  • Mid-Career
  • Retirement

What Economies will Play a Role in the Future?

  • Big Tech Economy
  • Precision Economy
  • Exodus Economy
  • Empath Economy
  • Gig Economy

 

Future Workers will need Technical Skills as well as Soft Skills, particularly Creativity, Critical Thinking, Collaboration and Communication Skills. The good news is that a solid high school course of study will lay a solid foundation for these type of skills. Additional, future workers will need the ability to upskill and re-skill, as well as have a zeal for life long learning.

What is the best way to navigate the future? As always, I recommend start with the end in mind and working backwards. What kind of lifestyle does your student want to have, where do they want to live, what work do they believe in and want to invest in doing?

Assess your student, your current resources and your location, as all of these offer various challenges and opportunities. And don’t forget that you are one of your student’s best resources. What are your areas of interests and trained vocation? Your kids have a jump start on whatever it is you share with them, because of what you already know.

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The Future of Work

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Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order that they may provide for daily necessities and not live unproductive lives. Titus 3:14Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order that they may provide for daily necessities and not live unproductive lives. Titus 3:14

Career Stages

  • High school
  • Launching as an Adult can include college
  • Early Career
  • Late Career
  • Mid-Career
  • Retirement

What Economies will Play a Role in the Future?

  • Big Tech Economy
  • Precision Economy
  • Exodus Economy
  • Empath Economy
  • Gig Economy

 

Future Workers will need Technical Skills as well as Soft Skills, particularly Creativity, Critical Thinking, Collaboration and Communication Skills. The good news is that a solid high school course of study will lay a solid foundation for these type of skills. Additional, future workers will need the ability to upskill and re-skill, as well as have a zeal for life long learning.

What is the best way to navigate the future? As always, I recommend start with the end in mind and working backwards. What kind of lifestyle does your student want to have, where do they want to live, what work do they believe in and want to invest in doing?

Assess your student, your current resources and your location, as all of these offer various challenges and opportunities. And don’t forget that you are one of your student’s best resources. What are your areas of interests and trained vocation? Your kids have a jump start on whatever it is you share with them, because of what you already know.

Craft a clear plan that includes

True North Homeschool Academy classes that will set your student up for future success

Fall Class True North Homeschool Academy

  • Orienteering
  • Life Skills
  • 101 Personal Finance
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Photography & Digital Tech
  • Video Editing
  • Photoshop
  • E-books
  • Survive Homeschooling High School
  • Young Professionals Series
  • Academic Advising & Testing
  • FB lives and Info Meetings

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ChatGPT and the future of education

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February 8, 2023 by Leave a Comment

ChatGPT and the Future of Education

216: ChatGPT and the future of education

In this episode, we discuss ChatGPT and what the evolution of AI technology means for the future of education. My guest is Randi Smith from Peanut Butter Fish Lessons who was also the guest on the episode Exploring Media Bias.

This is the second episode in a 3-part series on ChatgPT. You can listen to the first one on “What is chatGPT? here.

The questions we discuss in this episode are:

1. Should we be alarmed by ChatGPT?

2. Is this the end of the essay? The end of needing writing skills? What writing skills will students still need?

3. How do you think ChatGPT will change education?
a) What are new ways we will need to assess students?
b) What new skills will students need to work effectively with Chat GPT?

4. What benefits do we see in having students work with ChatGPT?

5. As homeschool parents, how should ChatGPT and other forms of AI factor into how we homeschool?

The websites you can use to check if an essay has been written by AI are GPTZero and Checkforai.

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How Homeschool Teens Can Build Future Career Skills, with Wendy Baird Packard

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January 17, 2023 by Leave a Comment

Future Career Skills | Future Career Skills for homeschool teens is a focus of today's podcast with special guest Wendy Baird Packard and your host Crystal Niehoff! | #homeschool podcast #homeschoolmilitarymoms #homeschoolmilitary #homeschool #careerskillsEpisode #33 – On this episode, guest Wendy Baird Packard talks about how military homeschooled teens can start now being intentional about activities that build skills for their future career plans. 

Middle school and high school homeschoolers, and even younger students, can begin being intentional about activities that build skills for their future career plans. Even if your teen has yet to decide what career path they wish to take, many soft skills and life skills are universal for all education levels and job positions. Additionally, Wendy shares specific ways military teens can find skill-building opportunities wherever the military sends their family.

Vital Soft Skills to Develop:

  • Reliable – on time, show up to work
  • Dependable – do the job you are asked to do, do it well
  • Communication – correct, cooperative, communication with team members,
  • managers, and customers
  • Interpersonal skills – how do you build relationships or interact with people at
  • all levels of your job
  • Adaptability – easily dealing with change

Wendy also goes into detail about ways military homeschool teens can be intentional about finding and utilizing activities for skill and resume building, even while still in school, as well as pitfalls to avoid.

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Wendy met her spouse when he was in the Navy; per her request, he ended his Navy career after eight years. They settled into normal life, had their son, bought a house, and were civilians for nine years. However, her husband never really lost the call of the military, and after a strong sign from God, he reenlisted in the Army. Stationed at Fort Carson, she became very involved in spouse programs mentoring spouses in the expectations of military life, career, and family. She followed a long-time dream and completed her associate’s and bachelor’s degrees in communication. Wendy will begin her master’s degree in industrial organizational psychology this year at the University of Maryland. 

Seeing the difficulty service members and family members who may move often have, Wendy, found her niche in helping service members and spouses to find employment. She jumped in with every move and studied employment every step of the way. Taking a job with the Department of Labor Working with thousands of service members by teaching the mandatory Department of Labor employment readiness classes, then also providing training to staff and service members of the Wounded Warrior Army and Airforce programs, assisting as a subject matter expert for the USO employment office and Hiring Our Heroes Job fair in Hawaii, and volunteering with the Army Community Services employment office. When her family moved again, she became the Military Spouse Liaison for the Workforce Solutions office in San Angelo and the volunteer lead for the Military Spouse Professional Network chapter for Goodfellow Airforce Base.

In May 2022, Wendy launched her own consulting business that assists clients in the art of communication, potentially focusing on career change or development, public speaking, and small business employee retention. She works one-on-one with clients, facilitates group classes, and speaks at events on these topics. Wendy has developed an exceptional understanding of employment from both the job seeker’s perspective and the employer’s. She provides clients with a detailed process in career development and change. She continues to work with businesses to bring awareness to the talent pool of potential employees, military spouses, and family members can be. She loves to recreate resumes and get people on the correct path to a wonderful career despite frequent moves or job changes.

Wendy has been married to her spouse for 21 years and has a 20-year-old son. She can often be found on an adventure with her two fur babies, Rocket and Carl.  

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How Can I Get My Kids to Work? – MBFLP 284

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October 13, 2022 by Leave a Comment

It’s one of the most common questions we get – “How can I get my kids to work?” Surveys find that a large number of families don’t expect their kids to do chores – and many that do, have a running battle over getting them done cheerfully. This episode, we’re talking about a balanced, Biblical attitude toward our children’s work (as well as our own), and what we can do to encourage them in it!

References

“Sparing chores spoils children and their future selves, study says” – Ami Albernaz, Boston Globe (12/8/15)

“Is Quiet Quitting Real?” – Jim Harter, Gallup (9/6/22)

Thomas Edison: “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy

Scripture Referenced

Children playing in God’s peaceable kingdom – Isaiah 11:8-9
Children playing in the New Jerusalem – Zechariah 8:5
Jesus speaking of the games of children in the marketplace – Matthew 11:16-17, Luke 7:31-32
It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth – Lamentations 3:27
Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God. And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord ... – Colossians 3:22-23
In all labor there is profit … – Proverbs 14:23
Do all things without complaining and disputing – Philippians 2:14

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How to Develop as a Future Mental Health Professional

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June 28, 2022 by Leave a Comment

You have a future mental health professional in your home? It’s a great time to nurture and develop this desire in your kids.Beyond the Basics: Discover how to Develop as a future Mental Health Professional

 

So, you have a future mental health professional in your home? It’s a great time to nurture and develop this desire in your kids, as developing vocationally will take time and intention!  The need for quality mental health care workers  is present and growing and the empath industry is one of the emerging industries of the future! It’s also a highly politicized field! ! How to encourage your future mental health care worker while still in High School? Here’s the list, but be sure to check out our series of Young Professionals Ebooks, as well as live online classes that will inspire, delight and build real-world, marketable skills that your kids can use NOW to earn cold, hard cash!

 

How to develop as a Mental Health Care Worker while still in High School:

 

  1. Be intentional about your High School Course of Study! Take honors classes and develop exceptional study skills!
  2. Volunteer!
  3. Develop an understanding of People and society
  4. Explore the various professions in the Health
  5. Focus on Communication and Research Skills
  6. Develop your ability to be a non-anxious presence and more!

 

Soft Skills to Develop:

Work Ethic

Flexibility and Adaptability

Confidence

Creativity

Critical Thinking Skills

Grit and a heart for Service

Communication Skills!

 

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Beyond the Basics, How to Develop as a Future Film Maker

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Beyond the Basics, How to Develop as a Future Film Maker. So, you have a future film maker in your home? Enjoy!Beyond the Basics: Discover how to Develop as a future Film Maker

 

So, you have a future film maker in your home? It’s a great time to nurture and develop this desire in your kids, as there are many opportunity to cash in on this important skill! Everything from being the next Steven Speilberg, to creating content for Influencers, to doing training videos for any size company, the need for quality filmmakers is present and growing! How to encourage your future film-maker while still in High School? Here’s the list, but be sure to check out our series of Young Professionals Ebooks, as well as live online classes that will inspire, delight and build real-world, marketable skills that your kids can use NOW to earn cold, hard cash!

 

How to develop as a Future Film Makers while still in High School:

 

  1. Take classes in Copywriting, Sales & Accounting
  2. Connect with the Industry
  3. Expand film making skill
  4. Build an on-line “presence” and following
  5. Understand the Art of Acting & Production
  6. Research Jobs in the Industry
  7. Expand Your Writing Skills Filmmakers are story-tellers. 9Study the History of Film
  8. Soft Skills Necessary for Success in a Competitive Industry

Work Ethic

Flexibility and Adaptability

Confidence

Creativity

Critical Thinking Skills

Grit and a heart for Service

 

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Preparing our children for jobs of the future

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Preparing our children for jobs of the future

106: Preparing our children for jobs of the future

As we homeschool, we do have to consider if we are preparing our children for jobs of the future and that is what we consider in this episode.

Some of the ideas mentioned are:

1. Will the job still exist – and if so, will it be changed in any way?

2. Technological know-how job seekers will need

3. They may need to know how to program

4. They will need to know how to work virtually

5. Make sure they know how to teach themselves new skills

6. A skill they will still need – how to write well

7. Problem solving will always be an important ability

8. Creativity will be too

9. Ethics relating to a changing technological world

This could mean less memorization in your homeschool and more emphasis on curriculum that encourages problem-solving and creativity and incorporates technology and online work.

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Workforce In The 21st Century

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July 6, 2020 by Leave a Comment

Workforce | What does the workforce look like in the 21st century? Today's guest, Lisa Nehring shares what it means to enter the workplace today. How it is different and what you can do as a student, or adult to prepare. | #podcast #homeschoolpodcast #workforce #workforce21Century #jobs #newjobsWorkforce Today ~ Episode 406

What does the workforce look like in the 21st century? Today’s guest, Lisa Nehring shares what it means to enter the workplace today. How it is different and what you can do as a student, or adult to prepare. Lisa is a podcaster at Lifeskills 101 here.

Find Lisa here: True North Homeschool Academy  True North offers K through 12 live online classes and some prerecorded classes.

So many people today work at home and during the year 2020, we learned the lesson the hard way as more and more stores and offices were shut down. Many were unprepared but those who worked at home just continued on.

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Lisa shares how to move forward.  She believes we are just in such a time of transition, technologically we’re in, what’s called the fourth industrial revolution, and it’s really fascinating. You can look it up and check out the three previous revolutions, but we are in an industrial revolution. That’s global, we’re a global culture. And a lot of how we work is changing a lot of how we educate is changing. One book that I’ve really enjoyed the last year is called College Unbound. It’s just about how we were going through school, we would graduate from high school and there were two groups. One group would go to work and get married. And one group would go to college and then get married. Not everybody got married, but it was typical. Today that’s not necessarily the case.

You can go to work in high school. You can go to work after high school, a lot of entrepreneurial opportunities because of technology that didn’t even exist five years ago, are available today. And so a college degree isn’t going to determine your lifestyle necessarily as much as it used to. Licensing makes a big difference depending on the industry that you’re in. But we’re going to see real shifts in, in how people work and technologies that are really important and a couple of technologies that are going to become really important in the next you know, in the future three-D printing, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

During the pandemic, when a lot of people were told to stay home and work from home, people made this big shift in their life. Their kids were sent home, and parents had to figure out how to juggle work, staying at home, managing their lives, and their kids being home. Many people will not go back to work in the traditional ways that they thought they would. Other industries that are going to really explode in the future are, or not go away. They’re not going to change too much. There are jobs with stability such as our counselors, pastors, and physical therapists. And I think those two lists are very interesting. On the one hand, we have three-D printing, AI, and robotics.

We have this real techie space in this rural interpersonal space. And I think as our world grows more technologically astute with artificial intelligence, robotics, three-D printing, I mean they replaced a spleen printed by 3d. That’s crazy, right? But in that technological space, there’s this real need and desire for connection and understanding who we are as people. And that’s where the pastors and counselors come in and physical therapy, of course, a robotic entity cannot take care of PT issues. There’s just not going to work. And I think right now, as we’re all experiences that experiencing this pandemic and just walking through it, we need to be really aware of the fact that we’re living in a, in a world where we can understand what’s going on globally, by turning on our phones or computers.

We have to be really intentional about reaching out in the ways that we can. And thankfully we have technological devices to help us with that. Like just you are half a country away. And yet we’re seeing each other and talking to each other, which is a beautiful thing that is that’s amazing. And, you know, we don’t really think about the emotional side of things.

So we have to be ready. And I just think this is such a perfect time to talk about this because you happen to have an online school that is available. As an educator, for example, I’m sure they’re going to need more because things are, some people won’t want their children to go back to school. At True North, we do an orienteering class where the kids are doing college and career exploration. And they’re doing personality inventories because not everybody is going to be geared towards being an AI specialist. There’s space for everybody and who they’re created to be in this new world.

The four areas to think about are our physical, mental, social, and emotional, and again, when things get really tough, when you have a crisis in your life habits can be disrupted I really think it’s important to keep the habits that you can.  So if you got up at seven before, try to get up at seven even now and then create new habits in the new space that you’re in. So one of the things we always have done for years and years, because we don’t all have to leave right off in the morning, we’re homeschoolers is that we get up and share a cup of coffee together and just talk about things. How’s it going for everybody? What’s the news and just kind of chat together. But if you don’t have this kind of habit already established create some new ones.

We can focus on the things to be thankful for that can get us through a lot of things and, and talk to each other about the things to be thankful for.

 

 

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Teamwork: Part 1

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April 4, 2019 by Leave a Comment

SoftSkills 101 podcast topic on this week's episode is Teamwork. Listen in!Soft Skills 101 topic this week is teamwork.

Definition: team·work

the combined action of a group of people, especially when effective and efficient.

Quote: As Andrew Carnegie once noted, teamwork “is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

Scripture Ecclesiastes 4:9 -4:12.

The family is the first “team” a child is a part of. A great family may or may not function as a great team.

Take a moment to think about and evaluate your family team.

    1. How is the team functioning?
    2. What can be improved?
    3. How are you providing leadership for your team?
    4. Develop your own team skills and those of your family members and together you’ll be able to step into the future with confidence.

Great teams:

  1. Hold each other accountable.
  2. Challenge each other to improve
  3. Set standards and expectation,
  4. Get rid of the status quo
  5. Get comfortable with discomfort

The Benefits of Teamwork

  1. Increase efficiency
  2. Improve communication
  3. Maximize output
  4. Create Support
  5. Increase innovation and creativity
  6. Boost performance and success

Relly Nadler outlined the core ingredients of a team in his article “Teamwork is an Unnatural Act” (businessexpertwebinars.com/content/ view/636/29/).

J. Richard Hackman, a pioneer in organizational behavior discovered that what matters most to team cohesion (i.e. team work) isn’t behavioral; rather, certain “enabling conditions” must happen

Team Building Activities:

  1. Games
  2. Playdates
  3. Chores
  4. Large house/property projects
  5. Traveling & camping together, practicing a foreign language
  6. Hospitality and serving together
  7. Read-alouds
  8. Bible study/prayer together -ACTS
  9. Working out together
  10. Setting and meeting a financial goal
  11. Cooking, cleaning, gardening together.

CTA:  Evaluate where your family is at working together as a team.

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