[Carrie Hall]

Hey, every­one! See the Home­work– this is where I would like you to post your ques­tions on Shop Class as Soul­craft (below!)

[Haider Mahmood]

If peo­ple lose their jobs to tech­nol­ogy what are we sup­posed to do in order to stop tech­nol­ogy from tak­ing more jobs?

[Amani]

If tech­nol­ogy is seen as “evil” and leads to the degra­da­tion of our work, why do we con­tinue to rely on it when we have other op­tions such as re­sult­ing back to shop class?

[Ahsham Nasir]

Why is it that blue col­lar jobs are not a pref­er­ence in a world where tech­nol­ogy is dom­i­nate, but blue col­lar jobs are the most paid jobs?

[J_Alexander]

Why limit stu­dents to just “brain work”? Many of us aren’t even in­ter­ested in re-read­ing 12 pg ar­ti­cle and yet we are sub­jected to the “way of the fu­ture”. Why not af­ford stu­dents a chance to chose the ca­reer path and offer classes to pre­pare us for that fu­ture as op­posed to telling us where we need to be?

• This reply was mod­i­fied 6 years, 7 months ago by J_Alexan­der.

[Nagm]

does man­ual work dis­ap­pear­ing have an ef­fect on jobs ?

[Giovanni Morales]

How can we show the peo­ple that blue col­lar work­ers are the real hard work­ing ones since their work can be seen every­where? yet they don’t get ap­pre­ci­ated for it

[Lashira]

Peo­ple learn in school how to fol­low ca­reer paths that they have been told are most ideal.​How can we un­con­di­tion the stu­dents of today from a fol­lower mind set?

[Angelica Salazar]

is there any other way that tech­nol­ogy can be ben­e­fi­cial to blue-col­lar work­ers with­out ac­tu­ally leav­ing them with­out a job?

[Muhammad A.]

How can the school sys­tem be al­tered so that it fa­vors stu­dents to learn and ex­pe­ri­ence craft knowl­edge and man­ual trades along with the op­tion of study­ing mod­ern tech­nol­ogy?

[Juan]

have there been any suc­cess­ful at­tempts at in­te­grat­ing tech­nol­ogy and work­ers with­out the need for a loss of jobs ?