Lesson · Grade 6 · Career Education
How Technology Changes the Way We Learn and Work
- Grade 6
- Career Education
- 1 min 10 s
- British Columbia
- BC6-CA-07
A past-and-today table compares three everyday tasks: finding a fact (library books, then an online search), writing (by hand and rewriting to fix a mistake, then typing and fixing it in a moment) and sending a message (a letter that takes days, then an email that can arrive in seconds). A final row shows that some jobs become rare, like phone operators, while new ones appear, like website designers and computer technicians, so the video ends on the lesson that we keep learning new skills because technology keeps changing how we learn and work.
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The question this lesson answers
How does technology change the way we learn and the way we work?
Let's compare finding a fact, writing, and sending a message, in the past and today.
Transcript
What the lesson says
How does technology change the way we learn and the way we work?
Let's compare finding a fact, writing, and sending a message, in the past and today.
In the past, people looked up facts in printed books at the library.
Today, we can search online and find facts in seconds.
In the past, people wrote by hand, and fixing a mistake could mean writing the page again.
Today, we can type on a computer and fix a mistake in a moment.
In the past, people mailed a letter to someone far away, and it took days to arrive.
Today, an email can arrive in seconds.
Some jobs become rare, like phone operators, who once connected calls by hand.
New jobs appear too, like website designers and computer technicians.
That is why we keep learning new skills all through our lives.
Technology keeps changing how we learn and how we work.
Curriculum
Where this fits
- British Columbia, Grade 6
Career Education, Life and career plan: technology in learning and workingBC6-CA-07
The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.
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