We divert ‘provocative searches’ into the occupations that help prevent, solve, heal or prosecute illegal or destructive activities.
We regularly review the real life searches that students put into the BECOME.ME app.
Across schools and year levels, we noticed a pattern of students ‘probing’ the system with jobs or words they think are provocative.
Instead of blocking students’ exploration the minute they do a provocative search, we divert them into genuine careers that help prevent, solve, heal and prosecute this activity. We call this a Bridge because it takes students from a negative to a positive career place.
So a search for 'hacker' opens all the jobs that help investigate, solve and mitigate against cybercrime.
Similarly, ‘thief’ or 'catburglar' or any related term a student searches for opens a bridge called Property Crime which includes all the jobs for the specialists who arrest, prosecute, advise and report on losses, recover property, and so forth.
You will know you are at a bridge when you see bright green verbs along the arrows that connect the node (Property Crime, in this example) to the jobs around it. A Security Chief reports on Property Crimes; a Head of Loss Prevention enforces against Property Crimes, an Investigator researches Property Crimes, a Judge prosecutes … and so on.
Bridges accept student curiosity and divert it into careers in the areas they are probing.
