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Book Summary - The new division of labor

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="316"] The new division of labor[/caption]

General trends

- knowledge sector will continue to grow

shortage of trained managers to direct computers (Peter Drucker)
- large concentration of workers in low-level dead-end jobs (Jeremy Rifkin)

- Technological displacement in other sectors
- Computers will

substitute tasks requiring higher order thinking - like chess
- not substitute tasks requiring

pattern recognition in highly unstructured environments
- interpreting of what is perceived with schemas or concepts stored in memory

- Standards based reform

results of success in Massachusetts Murphy schools
- move away from facts recall
- move towards in-depth understanding of complex relationships
- Massachusetts Common Core

literacy through ELA
- expert thinking through Math

Critical skill sets required in the future

- Expert thinking

solving problems with no rule-based solution
- heavily reliance on pattern recognition

- Complex communication

Listening skills
- heavy reliance on Empathy

To do in the future

- Reorganize work to take advantage of relative strengths of computers and people

External references

- *The end of work*,Jeremy Rifkin
- *Clicks and Mortar*, Malcolm Gladwell