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Future Directions for Farming, Education
Poziom:
Temat: Nauka i technologia
>> Coming up next on ATE TV.
>> GPS and GIS --
>> You know, you use GPS in
all sorts of applications,
whether it be putting
on a tractor
or marking a spot
where there's a tree.
>> --And Preparing the
technical workforce --
>> Making sure that
we have a competitive,
technologically savvy
workforce for the future.
>> -- Now, on ATE TV.
[ Music ]
From across the country
to your own backyard,
ATE TV shows you the many
advanced technological education
opportunities at your
local community college.
Did you know that farming and
agriculture have gone high tech,
and the job opportunities
have never been greater?
Let's meet Dan Miller, a student
in the GPS and GIS program
at Kirkwood Community
College who's studying
to become a cutting edge farmer.
[ Music ]
>> My name is Dan Miller.
I am attending Kirkwood
Community College
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
and I'm currently
in the GPS/GIS program here.
I grew up on a farm
with my father.
We farmed on 1000 acres,
have a little hay, grow crop.
We used to have hogs, and
that's what started my interest
in the field of agriculture.
Agricultural technology is --
I guess there'd be
a broad definition.
You have your GPS, which is
involved in a lot of tractors.
You know, you use GPS in all
sorts of other applications,
whether it be using -- putting
it on a planter in a tractor
or marking a spot where
there's a tree in a field
that needs to be taken care of.
There's an infinite amount of
options to use in the field
of agriculture right now.
[ Banging ]
It's opened my eyes up to all
the programs that are available
to be able to use on our
own family operation,
to help create my own business.
You know, just if I were
to stop farming, you know,
I would have an opportunity
to go anywhere,
whether it be construction,
natural resource,
even in the field of
agriculture but not farming,
I'd still have a background and
still be able to have a career
in something that
I really enjoy.
[ Music ]
There's -- you know, there's
days where I have three
or four hours of school,
plus work, plus, you know,
going home on the weekends.
It's strenuous at times,
but I usually try not
to let it get the best of me.
I usually just enjoy
what I'm doing
and have a good time
while I'm at it.
[ Talking ]
Once I graduate, my passion is
to go back home and
farm with my dad.
That's always been
what I've wanted to do,
and that's really what I want to
go back to home to do, but also,
I want to be able to possibly
do some grid soil sampling
as I get older and kind of have
my own business doing that,
just having a career in, and
you know, the farming community.
That's what I've always enjoyed,
and that's what I
really want to do.
[ Music ]
>> Dan's opening the door
to some terrific
career opportunities,
and whether he decides to
work on his family's farm
or branch off into
his own business,
the technical education
he's getting now will pay off
in the future.
If you're interested in
finding out more about GPS
and GIS programs, be sure
to visit your local
community college.
Up next, we're going to visit
the South Carolina Advanced
Technological Education
Center of Excellence
at Florence-Darlington
Technical College.
They offer programs in
engineering technology
that helps students to
acquire the skills they need
to obtain the jobs they want.
Take a look.
[ Music ]
>> The South Carolina ATE Center
of Excellence has
developed proven models
and successful practices
to improve education,
making sure that we
have a competitive,
technologically savvy
workforce for the future.
[ Music ]
We are working with scientists,
mathematicians, engineers,
educators.
>> Information about
one central --
>> We have worked one-on-one
with a number of educators
and other organizations around
the country to develop practices
that we know that work,
strategies that we know
that work to increase the
quantity, quality, and diversity
of engineering technicians to
support economic development.
[ Talking ]
>> All of the educational
research today is pointing
to the value of hands-on,
contextual learning,
inquiry-based learning.
>> We're actually working on
the little fan belt thing.
>> Essentially, it means
that the student is not
just being told something
or just memorizing something,
but they're seeing how
the pieces fit together.
>> This is the fan
belt right here.
>> Hypothetically,
it should work.
>> They are learning how to
figure it out on their own.
It makes the content theirs.
>> And when the fan belt turns
on, it basically slides across,
pulling the paper
across the thing.
And when you do it,
how far apart it is,
that shows you how fast
the fan belts going.
So --
>> Without that hands-on
experience and putting
in context and having to grapple
with it a little bit and work
at learning it, then it
doesn't stick with you,
and you don't know how to use it
the next time you encounter it.
We started doing this to
meet the learning styles
of particular students, and
what we discovered is it made
learning for all students
more meaningful and better.
[ Music ]
The systemic changes that we
have implemented have included
changing entirely the way we
approach the first year of study
for engineering technology
students,
where we integrate mathematics,
physics, technology,
and communications, and we have
an interdisciplinary teaching
team to coach the students
through this learning process.
We also have an internship
program,
so we can provide the
students opportunities
to work while they're
going to school.
We call it a "grow
your own" approach,
where the industries actually
get these students early
on in the program, and these
students then sort of grow
up with the industry as
they complete their two-year
associate degrees.
[ Music ]
We recommend an industry
consortium,
and you discuss what
it is that they need
and how you can best
meet those needs.
The industry consortia
looks at the big picture,
the employment picture for
the community as a whole,
and the way that they can
work together collaboratively
with the college to
help meet that need.
Industry partners are valuable
in helping you develop
curriculum at the college.
They know what the new
cutting-edge technologies are
coming down the pike.
They know what their
specific needs are.
There is a very common core
of technology, math, science,
communications, problem solving,
teamwork skills that we find
that are universal to
all of the industries.
>> Then, in the conclusion --
When we listen to those
industries, and we make sure
that we're teaching those
competencies in the classroom,
then we know we're going
to have a good match
between graduate and job.
[ Music ]
>> You don't have to go all
the way to South Carolina
to experience the
work being done there.
The South Carolina Center is
working with community colleges
and industry partners
all across the US.
Check out your local community
college's Engineering Technology
program to find out more.
And for more information on
anything you've seen today,
explore our website
at atetv.org.
Thanks for watching.
