What are the goals of School Age Children now?

What are the goals of School Age Children now?

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Post Compass - Doctors, pilots, and architect, was the choice of three most popular ideals for you the birth of the early 80 's and early 90 's.

You shall not circumvent, though now a fumble career choice away from the ideals of schooling used to be, certainly the three aforesaid professions ever was blasted out of your mouth while still in elementary school.

Now, in the midst of technological developments, the world financial fluctuations, and an aggressive invasion of the entertainment world, curious about what the heck the ideals of children of school age in the era of WiFi and YouTube?

A research on the occasions by Nominet ideals expose the respondents which is a group of school students aged 11 to 18 years old.

It turns out that the results were not too surprising, but enough to make you a little dumbfounded.

The reason, school children in the modern era has no ambition to become a doctor or a pilot.

Choice of three most popular profession among children is related to the world of information technology (IT).

Research shows that one-third of the respondents answered the want to be game developers. Then, as many as 13 percent of respondents confessed, had goals as application developer and website developer.

Then, only seven percent who dreams of becoming a fashion designer and a musician. As much as 10 percent want to be athletes. Five percent more answered want to be astronauts.

The research also reveals the conservative ideals have enthusiasts. Only 4.3 perse dreaming so police, six percent to lawyers, and 6.3 percent to your doctor or nurse.

Interestingly, children who have ideals of success in the tech industry is still dominated by boys. This is because a large number of the respondent's daughter says that technology is boring (41 percent), too technical (35 percent), difficult (28 percent), and too masculine (16 percent).

Young children aged 11-12 years old (77 percent), better have a great interest in acquiring professions in the realm of technology. Meanwhile, children aged older, 17-18 (63 percent) are not interested in the field of information technology.

"The future world economic technology is threatened if we recruit only half of the respondents, and failed to motivate girls to explore science in information technology," explained Russel Haworth, CEO of Nominet, as dikutipi Information Age.

"The collaboration of formal school and extracurricular lessons technology must be run to ignite the spirit of the girls involved with IT," he added.

Then, the CEO of the Parent Zone, Vicki Shotbolt, say, parents are already contaminated about negative effects of technology on kids.

"In fact, many ways to overcome this condition. The reason, could not be denied that the technology is the provision for the next generation to pursue in the future, "explained Shotbolt.