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How to Land the Jobs of the Future - WSJ.com

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Career experts say the key to securing jobs in growing fields will be coupling an in-demand degree with expertise in emerging trends. For example, communications pros will have to master social media and the analytics that come with it; nursing students will have to learn about risk management and electronic records; and techies will need to keep up with the latest in Web marketing, user-experience design and other Web-related skills.
More than two million new technology-related jobs are expected to be created by 2018, according to the BLS. Jobs that are expected to grow faster than average include computer-network administrators, data-communications analysts and Web developers. Recruiters anticipate that data-loss prevention, information technology, online security and risk management will also show strong growth.

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A computer-science degree and a working knowledge of data security are critical to landing these jobs. Common areas of undergraduate study for these fields include some of the usual suspects, such as computer science, information science and management-information systems.

But those might not be enough. That's because not all of those jobs will be purely techie in nature. David Foote, chief executive officer of IT research firm Foote Partners, advises current computer-science students to couple their degrees with studies in marketing, accounting or finance. "Before, people widely believed that all you needed to have were deep, nerdy skills," Mr. Foote says. "But companies are looking for people with multiple skill sets who can move fluidly with marketing or operations."
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- Social media has opened the door to the growth of new kinds of jobs
- interactive creative director
- information design.
- Web site search optimization
- User-experience design—a sort of architecture for information that Web viewers see
- a certificate program for user-experience design as well, at a cost of about $3,000 to $5,000. The program will run one to two years
- couple product design with consumer psychology and behavior.
  
  "Our students [will] learn to think like anthropologists, evaluating how easy it is to utilize the products," she says.
- Ms. Fay counsels job seekers to look at the misdeeds of the past year or two to identify where new jobs will bloom in the financial sector.
- Students specializing in nursing informatics, which combines general nursing with computer and information sciences, at the master's degree level will swap a clipboard for a smart phone to manage patient data.

Mr. C's Class Blog: Build Your Own Snowman from Yahoo

review of an interactive site where students can build their own Snowman

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Photografia: Simply Red, “For Your Babies” Simetria

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Science Friday Archives: Buying Happiness

"people reported feeling happier when they spent their money on experiences "

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The Best of Open Culture 2009 | Open Culture

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Barbarians with Laptops: An Unreasonable Fear? at Beyond School

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That’s not to say that we should be filling students’ time outside of class,
By sharing a document or digitally chatting rather than speaking out loud, students don’t distract/interrupt those around them.
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- greater quantities of source materials wherever they have a connection to the internet
- Multiple students can reference the same material without waiting for a turn to check out a book from the library or borrow it from the teacher
- easier to carry numerous resources home without breaking the back
- tudents to maintain blogs that can be the take-away portfolio that they use to whenever they want to see how they have developed their writing skills over time
- That’s why we use an off-the-shelf blogging tool (Tumblr) at my school. The blogs belong to them, not the school.
- students can engage with a writer whose work they are reading. (Two notes: My students spotted that post of his (he found us first) before I did and commented without encouragement. This is just the start of what I hope will be a longer-term relationship.)
- parents: some become inspired by what is going on in the classroom and begin to stretch themselves. (That post came directly from interaction between parent, student, and teacher. It also happens to involve the writer linked to above.) In situations like this, students become engaged in conversations with their parents sparked by their technological expertise (and knowledge of online etiquette), but eventually involving other aspects of their (both student and parent) work (content, writing skills, interpersonal skills, media literacy skills, ability to deliver and receive constructive criticism).
- potential to build a school community of life-long learners
- a class blog (the other one here) a teacher can share (and students can access on their laptops) related (and sometimes unrelated) content that supplements what is going on in class.