I feel like in the last 15 years I’ve seen a ton of educational technology jobs advertised. The ones I watched the most were in the Education Tech/Computer/I.T. field. Now that I’m looking back, I think I would’ve learned to code more if I had been in that industry.
Sure, coding is an education, but it needs to be a lot more than that.
I think programming is probably the most education Ive ever received in my life. I think I could have taught myself to paint, but I probably wouldn’t have learned how. Its also the one of the least interesting things Ive ever learned. Now, as for the industry, I doubt that I would’ve ever been hired to work in the Education Tech field. I think the reason is because it really isn’t that interesting.
So, as a programmer, you have to get really good at something to be hired. Not that you will have to work at that industry forever. Just that you will have the experience. The industry is all about the experience, so if you have a good experience, it’s more likely that you would be hired.
The industry is so incredibly boring that it rarely hires people outside of the tech sphere. If you really want to work in the tech world, there are a ton of things to learn just to get into the industry. I bet the industry is just as boring as it sounds.
There are a lot of interesting new ideas and interesting ideas to be learnin’ in the tech world. But, you know, for whatever reason, there are a lot of things that are not so interesting. For example, in the tech world I’ve been at, one of the things that most get me is to just sit and listen to music. You can’t really listen to music and not get too excited after you’ve finished listening to music.
I know a few people that have a background in science that are like that. They know that music is exciting and they love it to the point of death. Its like a drug that they cant stop taking. Maybe they are just a little too used to it.
Ive been thinking about this for a while. I am a pretty big fan of the “death in music” trope. At the very least, it seems as though it has to do with drugs. I think the biggest problem with this trope is that it makes it more difficult to distinguish between what someone is “getting high” (a lot of drugs) and what they are “on the edge of death” (a lot of music).
I like that the music industry is very focused on the death in music trope. There seems to be very little attention to the death in education. I guess I just don’t think it’s as though the industry is as much about death as the music industry.
Well, with all due respect to the industry, I think the death in education trope has more to do with the need for the industry to have a death in education. Because the entire premise of these jobs is to be a teacher. So they have to be able to kill their students or risk having their job. This is not like the movie industry where people are actually in the industry so their jobs can end by accident.