As I’ve been reading articles for my doctoral study, I’ve come across an interesting idea:  how the globalization of the economy will affect students when they become workers.  You may have noticed that I’m reading Wikinomics, which speaks about globalization.  This is fascinating stuff.  Here’s my train of thought on this: School should be a reflection of society.  We teach values and knowledge that our society finds necessary.  Curriculum changes as those people in office decide that our values have changed.  Right now state lawmakers are discussing putting technology essential knowledge and skills in the every grade level.  Of course, our personal lives are always way ahead of our school lives.  I read a statistic that only 18% of teachers blog or know someone who does.  I bet if you ask that same question to students, the percentage would be very high.  So, not only should school reflect society in regards to the use of technology, but another responsibility of school should be to prepare students for the word of work.  Businesses have been complaining for a long time that schools don’t do a good enough job with this.  And looking at how companies are outsourcing work to all parts of the world, students need to be prepared for a workforce much different than the one we were prepared for.  Hardly anyone holds down the same job for 30 years anymore.  We need to prepare students to work in a global economy, which includes being able to communicate effectively through digital tools, being able to work with a team that might not be physically present, and being able to adapt to new situations on a daily basis.   If educators keep acting like we live in a bubble that no longer exists, we will be doing our students a great disservice.