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To Train Future Skilled Workers, Speak Their Language

Posted August 10, 2014 12:00 AM by Engineering360 eNewsletter

With baby boomers starting to retire in droves, training the next generation of maintenance professionals calls for methods specifically tailored to the younger audience. It's all a matter of changing perceptions and making learning fun - and putting things in a context they understand. For example, school-age children may benefit more from a camp that encourages working with their hands than a brief visit from a maintenance worker on Career Day. Meanwhile, game-based training allows skilled laborers of all ages to learn about maintenance without hazardous consequences.

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08/10/2014 11:26 PM

"It's all a matter of changing perceptions and making learning fun - and putting things in a context they understand."

Yup. Just dumb things down as far as you must.

Learn to rap, if that's what they need.

If da ting be broke

den it ain't no kinda joke

Cuz it gotsa git fixed, so production won't be missed

Don' be cryin'...

Just start tryin'

Whack it here, whack it there

whack it up & down & everywhere

an' if it don't git right

tell da man he be too tight

wit da money!

[{das right!}]

Say if he want it fixed today, den he gonna havta pay

Foty Fifty mo' per hour plus a "little bag o flour"

an' sum o-ver-time!

Den yer buddies at mid-nite

come down true da sky-light

make it disappear, and

den yer in da clear!

Da insurance make it new,

an' den dey don' need YOU

"Hellow U-C!"*

(repeat ad nauseum)

. . . * that's Unemployment Compensation, for those who WORK for a living... including learning how to read and understand difficult material.
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08/11/2014 11:17 AM

What AP stated, I have to agree with.

Work can be stressful, but it is enjoyable because it is challenging.

But if they treat work like a game, party or celebration event, very little good will come of it, especially if habits are engrained in them.

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08/11/2014 1:11 PM

Let me get this straight: Baby Boomers, who spent years learning how to do their jobs, need to learn the lingo of the people taking over their jobs. WHAT?!

What's 'in it' so to speak, for the people retiring?

That is totally bass-ackwards. The younger workers are the ones who need to learn the terminology.

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08/11/2014 1:36 PM

Whoever wrote the article is probably part of the named generations, 'X', 'Y' more then likely the 'me' generation.

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08/11/2014 3:00 PM

Clown with 'compost'...How appropriate...total bull$hit ! Does anyone subscribe to this?
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08/11/2014 3:01 PM

Better to teach them to survive in the wild without the equipment they will be maintaining....Then they will have some appreciation of the true value of modern technology....and what life would be like without it....

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08/11/2014 4:11 PM

Let me get this straight. You don't need to go to Engineering School anymore? You just have to play games or memorize songs to learn what you need to know?
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08/11/2014 4:33 PM

And your high score in astroids can finally be put on your resume.

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08/11/2014 7:52 PM

I think this was not clearly represented....

Original article....

http://www.maintenanceworld.com/2014/06/03/the-maintenance-crisis-innovations-that-are-changing-it/

The guy that said they use game based training....

http://www.antechsystems.com/about/careers

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08/11/2014 9:14 PM

A sage ANALOGY worth thinking about:

"...Son, when you turn 18 and get a job, YOU join the WORLD, the WORLD does NOT join YOU!"

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08/12/2014 5:31 PM

This is the most outrageous idea I have ever heard on this forum. This is supposed to be a forum of, for and about professionals, not getting down to the level of adolescents who want things their way. You do it my way because I spent a lifetime learning the right way.

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08/15/2014 2:31 PM

I don't think I will subscribe to get more content like THAT.
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