Preparing for your child’s future world of work with Mac and iPad
Get your child ready for their future today by honing their tech skills with the help of education specialists, iStore Education, and Apple technology.
AI is increasingly becoming a prominent part of our realities in both our personal and professional lives, so it’s natural to consider what this will mean for your school-going children when they eventually enter the working world.
This consideration reaffirms the importance of fostering the awareness, education, and accessibility of coding and app development resources. These tools are critical for everyone but can be particularly career-proofing for school children.
The sooner your children explore the digital space and familiarise themselves with the tech ecosystem – the easier it will be for them to adapt and learn new software and code languages as they grow.
Tech giant Apple is all about nurturing tech skills from the foundational level of education. With schools around the world making use of Apple iPads in their learning – children can practice coding from the time they enter their educational journey.
In fact, Apple designed an app specifically aimed to help learners develop the necessary skills and understanding to build an app. Known as Apple’s ‘Swift Playgrounds’, the app takes learners on a journey from building their first line of code to building their first app in Swift.
Software like Apple’s Swift app serves as a great tool for beginners to explore, learn, discover, and experiment with coding and app development all on the convenience of their iPad or Mac.
Proving that tech skills development doesn’t have to start and end at the school entrance, the Apple App Store offers an even broader range of games curated and designed to help children learn through play while developing their fine motor skills, coding skills, and critical thinking skills – all while engaging with problem-solving and fun interactive games.
If you feel you and your little ones need extra support – you needn’t look further than South Africa’s leading Apple Premium Reseller, iStore. Primed and ready with offers tailored to educators as well as parents and children, the brand has educational services available that cover everything from coding lessons for students to courses aimed at empowering parents and teachers. All these offers have been packaged to help guide children through their schooling journeys while getting the most educational benefits out of their iPad or Apple device.
Once your child gets older and needs a device that offers them more room to learn, grow, and play around in the tech space – the Apple MacBook range offers a variety of options to choose from that will be best fit for their interests and career aspirations.
From high-speed devices fitted with crisp and vibrant Retina displays perfect for honing design, coding, and video processing skills, to simpler models that still pack enough power to keep them powered up on the go, studying class notes and putting together presentations.
AI is the future and the future is already here, it’s been said that AI is going to affect jobs in 2024 – 2030. So how can you ensure your child stays primed and ready for an AI-powered and 4IR-driven working future?
One of the ways to keep your kids on track is to know what the job market may look like – specifically which jobs will likely be evergreen and the skills they’ll need to stand out among fellow applicants.
What careers will be evergreen?
Some roles will always be needed in our society for our daily lives to function seamlessly. These include essential workers – particularly:
Software Developers and Engineers
Another career path that remains a steady beacon in our changing landscape is the role of Software Developers and Engineers. As long as our tech keeps evolving and adapting, we’ll need skilled professionals who understand code-heavy language and know how to help bring about the next tech advancements.
Medical and Healthcare Professionals
No matter how much time passes, we’ll still need skilled healthcare workers who know how to fix our broken limbs, heal our ailing organs, and soothe our rattled minds when crisis strikes. These roles may evolve to include the streamlining of data processing onto AI systems as well as VR surgeries and procedure testing. Skilled professionals who can understand, troubleshoot, and manage these AI systems and VR software will allow for new job opportunities within the healthcare industry to prop up for the future prospective workforce to consider.
Artisans
A vocation as old as time itself, and one that's not going anywhere as the world continues its forward trajectory is artisans. The artisan industry is one for storytellers, creatives, and craftsmen – a skill that can’t be mastered in tech to match the creativity of humans. With the introduction of AI to help aid this industry – as seen in design and writing, skilled professionals will still be needed who know how to use these tools as a means to speed up production while still having the creative eye to finetune and finesse what the AI programs churn out – to bring back the human touch and charm.
Across all these evergreen careers, technical skills will be needed – especially to be able to keep up with the software that comes forth from AI testing and expansion.
iStore Education, the only Apple Authorised Education Specialist in Africa, has deals and offers on iPads and Macs that are ideal for families and students. Students are eligible to opt for iStore’s student discount offers available and, if you pair that with a trade-in discount, you’re looking to save big time on your child’s next study buddy device.
Visit iStore today to learn more about the MacBook range and iPad range to help you secure your young one’s future, today.
For more information on iStore’s offerings for businesses, please click here.
Built with Shorthand