Seminar: Quantum Technologies: Early Exposure as a way to Prepare Students for the Next Technological Revolution
Program: DINÉ
Subject Area: Science
Grade Level: 6th
Year of Publication: 2023
Abstract
What is quantum technology? How can you explain to students that they are living in a world where simple and complex quantum technology’s input means either 1 or 0 for an answer? What is superposition and what is entanglement? Who are the brains behind quantum? Do natives have quantum (not meaning their percentage in bloodline)? To answer this in the most, simple way, will take time and patience (lots of them).
I watch my son play cga (computer generated animation) games on his phone or on his tablet or or his old PS4 station. He plays, and then, with excitement he tells me that he has defeated the enemy and going into the next level. So, I ask him what he did and how he was able to know that he is going into the next level. His response was simple, I just moved here and there and fought with these weapons and knew their weaknesses, and so on. I didn’t get the answer I wanted but he knew how to play the games.
I remembered going to a science conference in Phoenix one year, and there I listened to a presenter who presented about the school that taught coding to students. He talked about students being introduce to basic coding to advance coding, and how the students who excel were offered jobs at major companies like “Google”, universities / colleges, schools, software companies, gaming companies, and even with military intelligence, and major movie companies.
I’m always fascinated about how some people know how technology works