1. What are the qualities of knowledge workers? According to the sources given, it has been described that the knowledge workers are those who are performing knowledge rich jobs, such workers are typically but not universally well educated. It has been indicated from the sources given that some knowledge workers have high levels of literacy and lower levels of education ,implying the basic skills obtained beyond education and recognized in the knowledge economy. The qualities of knowledge workers posses the following qualities communication skills, problem solving skills and ability to work on teams and ICT Skills.

2. Reflect on whether you have these qualities .3. What are your strengths and weaknesses related to these qualities? It has been indicated that a knowledge worker must possess the qualities which include communication skills. In my field of profession, as nurses ,since we deal with people it is essential of us to develop or at least master our communication skills, be that of intrapersonal or interpersonal skills because of the reason that communication is necessary for delivering the best care needed for our patients that we serve. Like for example, if we are getting information from the patient we must see to it that pertinent information is necessary and so communicating well with the patient is therefore necessary because if we miss something necessary it will equate to misleading of the patients diagnosis and we base our care upon the diagnosis .Working on a health care team, nurses most of the time stay at the patients bedside more than any member of the health care team and so problem solving is a skill necessity for a nurse to have. A good problem solver entails critical thinking abilities. Critical thinking is a skill needed by nurses and being developed through time. In our modern times, ICT is necessary to be able to cope up with the fast changing world. Being digitally proficient helps us to be globally competitive.

4. What were the three main things you learned from the lesson? From the lesson, the three things I learned were the following. First, in order for you to be marketable you should not only possess the major core of literacy and basic education which include reading, writing and arithmetic skills but is also necessary that we include non academic skills for a multidimensional skills. Second thing I learned from the subject that technological changes and innovations drive the development of the knowledge based economy through their effects on production methods, consumption ,patterns and the structure of the economics and lastly, the concepts of knowledge economy and knowledge workers are based on the view that information and knowledge are at the center of economic growth and development.

5. What did you previously think was true but now to be wrong. From the lesson ,I my idea about the workplace setup has been that of colonial type,in the sense that the only skill needed to be able to engage in the workplace were the basic foundations of formal education and these includes the skill in the arithmetic, writing and reading and then upon reading the topic there are certain skills included such skills are the communication skills ,that one must be digitally equipped, be able to work as a team and a good problem solver. ANA MARIE B.BATTUNG