Transcripts For WHDH Urban Update 20151206

Opticians in boston, they are among the high of the paid this the country. The average is 50,000 a year or 25 an hour and demand is high as the aging population in this field are nearing retirement which means a 95 job placement right for graduates of their associate degree. We have inviltsed profession blair wong the founding chair of the Eye Health Technology department. An active member of the profession and served on Many National committees and boards. In 2011 recognized as the massachusetts optician of the year and nationally recognized lecturer. And professor wong is also legally blind. And anghelo guevara, jen gentleman minute Franklin Institute tech class of 2015 and licensed at the south end and jiz jiz Gisele Soares working washington a student optician at a that optical chain. Welcome to urban update. Thank you for coming this. Thank you. Dr. Wong a ji to have you here. What is, why is this an exciting field for students to pursue . You know eye care, Eye Health Care professionals, opticians specialize in the experts, and the design, fitting and the dispensing of prescription glasses and contact lenses. And since 85 of our experience with the world on a daily basis is through our visual sense it is important for consumers to have the expertise of an optician to correctly and fits well and is precise, and helps them to meet all their visual needs. Byron i understand you can earn an Associates Degree in just 18 months and walk right in the field. We have many different options a traditional twoyear degree and we are the only school in massachusetts that offers opticianry. There is an 18month program, and we start january students that go through the summer. And we tends to attract students who have an advanced degrees. Students with batch already degrees or higher can come to the program and in an accelerated base. Byron anghelo guevara, why did you get in to optometry and why did you pick benjamin Franklin Institute. My family was in the health eye care. So i decided to go into this. I did a piece of research with my friend showed me Benjamin Franklin the only college that offers this program. So i found it very interesting. Byron okay. Gisele soares you are a student, talk to me about the program and what do you like about the program at the benjamin Franklin Institute of technology. I love everything about the program but what i like most, is they have very small classes and you can get a lot of attention from the professors. They talk to you a lot when have you questions. I like that it is a fast program, too. Byron professor wong, tell me about the type of individuals that you think are a good fit to enter this program . Gisele soares and anghelo guevara are great candidates, it students, who are people oriented and who have skills with their hands to be able to manufacturer glasses, on optical precision and who like and embrace technology and can definitely be able to give back to the profession, to find something in the profession. You have to be good at math . To some extent . Maybe not, i would say the most important aspect. But there are some math components. What is wonderful about the profession is that it does blend math, skings, biology, science, biology, business, and fashion. Such a diverse aspect of the responsibilities. You are a licensed optician. Tell me about your job, what do you like about it . What i love the most is that i can give something to my patients that they can enjoy, like seeing, the great feeling, going back again. That is something that i enjoy, helping people to see. And they rely on the prescription they severe. Gisele soares do you recommend this on other students and why . I would, definitely. If you like being handson and helping people, thats a great career. Byron how prepared are graduates when they complete the program. There are a lot of jobs out there for these guys . There are. Our placement right is well over hundred. Byron wow. With great demand for qualified opticians, because this is a great emphasis on all different models of business now offering optical. Massachusetts is a state that requires licensing or opticians and they cant operate without having a licensed optician on the premises. Byron in terms, walmart and target, any place where they would sell glasses over the counter . Exactly. Byron okay. Anghelo guevara and Gisele Soares, did you find it easy to get a job . Yes, i was working before i graduated from school. I received probably like ten offers of jobs before graduation. Byron there are more jobs . Gisele soares than opticians out byron as a legally blind person, how does it feel to know that you are helping others to see better . It is uniquely special for me and i think for students. On a daily basis they see my challenges to continue to adapt to my progressive blindness and that is something that is day one. They learned to be my sighted guide and they help guide me when i am on the board. And they are learning as expects about eye care. On how to be the expert, or patients who need them the most when you graduate. Byron you are an established optician when i started to have problems with the eyes. An irony in life. Had a problem that leads to blindness and i am pretty much there. Byron sounds like you have a Great Program going here. And great opportunities for students. What would you like to say, i will give you last word to students who may have not heard of this or thought about optician has a career . Its certainly is not better time for students to basketball involved in opticianry. It is a great year and you cannot only invest in yourself but in others. And i think what makes our Program Unique in the country is we are the only program that is partnered directly with the state association. Our students actually attend local, professional events, Even National events, and so they enter the field after graduation with a running start. Students coming back or who have already had batch alreadies degrees bachelor degrees. About 15 of the students have advanced degrees because it is such an upcoming profession. Ron run how can anyone learn more about the program . Anghelo guevara look at our website. And we have a great website that has engaging videos on what the students learn and the detail opticianry as a career path. Byron professor blair wong and anghelo guevara and Gisele Soares thank you for coming in. Good luck with your careers. Thank you. Ron run coming up next a new way of learning that brings the learning cycle down to 60 seconds. The details here on urban byron testive is an online tool that combines people and technology to help students unlake their potential and based on a unique learning system, testive individually prepares students for standardized tests and makes learning easier and faster and more fun. Founded in 2011 they have used by more than 150,000 students around the globe. Available free of charge to any student with internet connection, it has been proven to increase scores by 150 scores and act scores by an average of three points. We invited tom rose, testive cofounder and teacher since he was 15. Welcome to urban update and thank you for coming in. Thank you for having help. Byron why you and your friend began to look into this notion of unique learning . I met my cofounder at mit and we were passionate about education. High priced tutor, and i was charging 500 a session. And its started to occur to me that most of what i was doing was thoroughly repetitive and 90 that have could be offloaded to an international jen piece of software and 10 that i was adding unique value, i would preserve. We inventsed a manmachine high bride system that helped students to learn faster and cost less. Byron how do you describe your method to people . What makes it different the software is build on stop of a set that were developed at mit that dramatically improved learning speed. For someone who doesnt have as much time to spend that helps them to get to it faster. Byron what does a first time learning go through. Being a nerd, most of the things that i make come out on the computer. Yes, you have to have a computer. And lets start with the number one thing that prevents people from learning. The single biggest thing is think dont put in the time. They dont stick with it. And so the thumb one thing that can prevent that is a human teacher. They are fantastic at helping keep people on track. So we have all of our students who work with coaches, and they meet oneonone with a live human coach. And use a set of software at the same time that provides them with learning doesnt and a synergy between them. We collect data on the students performance and we can feed it to the coach to deliver a great experience in a short period of time. Byron talk to me about this immediate old method bringing the learning cycle down to 60 seconds. This makes learning more you stick with it longer. And allows you to learn faster. That is something that everybody does all the time. When you learn something it is a challenge that you cannot do. That is what the cat lift is for learning. It is a challenge. And some kind of understanding, we call that reflection. Where you realize okay, i couldnt solve the challenge and nowly understand why i couldnt do that challenge. And third and most important part is the adaptation, you have to become a better version of yourself to do something that the old you couldnt do. That learning happens all the name everyday life, and what is critical now if you wanted to learn something specific, suppose you want to learn math, one of the keefes to doing it is to take the threepart cycle and go around that loop, very quickly. And the faster you go around it faster you can grow and become a we shrink that down to a 60second loop. We give you a challenge and help you reflect and give you an adaptation to make and sends you back around. Byron give me an example . One is subjectsvrb agreement. We might show students a section that said bill and basketball was going to the park. Bill and bob was going to the park. If you cannot detect that error you failed the challenge. Now that is a great learning moment. And so we show you what the error was in that sentence, which was the verk was. Verb was. Pints out how you could understand, that the verb needs to match the subject. And we ask you to write in your own words a reflection and write that down. While you write that down you are adapting and becoming a new person who understand hows subject and verb should go together. And we sent you back in and give now you get sally and jane was going to the park. And now you know sally and jane were going to the park. Down to 60 seconds. Kids these days are smarter than ever. Byron you have. Teaching in in capacity since you were 15 . I have worked, taught first grade, third grade, fifth grade, middle school and high school, grad students and senior saturdays. I love it all. I like helping people learn. It is rewarding. Byron 150,000 students around the world have used your program . I havent tout each one personally. Yes. Byron i am talking about your program. We work in tremendously large numbers. That is the advantage of using software you get scalebility and leverage. This is dramatically better and can make it available to everyone. Ron run what type of students average students, coming out of high school or students who are better, or . It adapts to the person. It will adjust to you and only give you questions that are at the level of difficulty that meets you perfectly. That is one of the things that is very important to keep students engaged. If you give people challenges that are too differ they are frustrated. If you give them challenges that too easy they become bored. Byron we have a graphic of the website. A few photos there for anyone who may want more information. If anybody wants to find out about this, they should go to testive. Com. Soundses like you have it right there. This is amazing. For anybody out there who is pesky sats and act tests. Tom, thank you for coming in. Even though the flu is ram pants this time of year there are those who are certain they are invincible to the flu bug. And we will come back when we fwaug that on urban update. Stay with us. Its the holidays. Full of people so its the perfect time for verizon fios. It has the Fastest Internet 50 to 500 megs. And right now, youll get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for your first year. And with a 2 year agreement, well give you all the premium movie channels for a year. Plus, 400 dollars back. So go online or call now. Byron the flu runs rampant this time of year, there are those of us who believe they are invincible to the flu bug. But there is a high likelihood that you could be hit with the flu this season though whats what you did. Dr. Ken redcross is aboard certain tied internal medicine physician, who says we should prepare for flu season, a cord torgt good doctor, if you wait even two days after speakersing the first signs of flulike symptoms to see a doctor you can delay Recovery Time for an extra two or three weeks. The doctor joinsuous share the 7 common flu symptoms and how to get flu ready with his ultimate flu survival package. Thank you for coming in. Byron why did you think so people are resistant to getting a flu shot. I get mine but a lot of people dont. You are so right on that byron. I wish i could figure that out. I would be a wealthy man. I can tell you this i talk to patients about that and it is all over the place. A lot of people feel they will note get it. I talk to patients as if its insurance, like for your car. You need insurance for your health and insurance against the flu season as well. Byron how many people do you think will be affected by the flu . Unfortunately about 200,000 americans will be afflicted with the flu, and 25 will lose their life. It is a very serious issue when you talk about the flu shot. I think the other important thing is we use flu, when we are not feeling well, we will talk about a flu bug in our stomach and we dont take it seriously. We have to watch the elderly, as afflicted by the flu. 65 and older. Most of the deaths are 80 to 90 are in that group. As will of life. People think about getting the flu, it is more than a cold . Yes. I think people dont understand the complications of the flu that is a problem. One of the biggest knee moneyia. Something that everyone says that cant happen to me, but influenza, that is something to be careful about. Byron the top 7 flulike symptoms that we should be on the look vut for . Absolutely. We always say we feel feverish but when the fever gets to about a hundred or so we need to really be leary of something coming on. A cough or sore throat. Sometimes you can have a runny nose or a stuffy nose that be consistent with that. Headache and really the body aches that i listen for. That is what starts to cue me in that we are dealing with something more. Nausea and vomiting. We tend to see the vomiting more this children. Byron a lot of symptoms people might have one or two of them, and think nothing of it. That is why it is very important to talk to your doctor immediately, because that is our job to sift what what is going on and figure it out. For me, when i hear the body aches, the bone breaking body aches that clues me in that we are dealing with more than a cold. Byron talk to me about the ultimate flu survival pack that we shouf hand . This is extremely important. When i think of flu season, i liken it to hurricane season. We prepare and we stockpile and these are four things that have you to stockpile, my practice is very holistic and all of these are just natural. Probiotic. We know they are good for us and in our gut when we get sick. That allows us to reflynnish replenish that. And with us being in the boston area it is perfect because there was study done on college kids that showed 34 of kids got better within they started this early. 2448 hours into the disease or into the illness. Counter . Yes, a lot of the drugstores, grocery stores, and it is easy to find like the second thing here. This is probably the best kept secret, a home pathic remedy and they used in europe for years. It uses the bodys own immune system to heal itself. Back to the natural. And good studies, shown to as the kres the duration of illness when taken in the first 24 hours. And good for kids two years and older. We didnt know what to give our kids years back. Some of the things that we gave them probably arent good. Byron joseph the counter . Yes, and easy to find. Ron run and moving on . Mom is always right. We should have known that. Mom is right. Byron no one gets that. I dont know if mom understands it is a medicine. Studies show chicken noodle soup decreases the migration of white blood cells through the areas that wreak havoc, through the lungs when we get the cough or nasal passages when we get the sneezing. This is very important part of this survival kit. Byron and finally . Lost but not least, zinc, a very important mineral for the immune system in general. It is port when you feel like you are coming down with something start zinc lozenges when taken early you get a benefit. Ron run what about the top shots . The place. A lot of people think the flu shot can make them sick. Im here to tell you it is impossible. It has an inactivated virus. They think some are may going big bucks off the vaccine. But i tell you this, they make probably less than half a percent and this case their doing wonderful things for us. And a lot of people think if they have had the flu they cant get it again and im here to tell you that is not true, either, because there are different strains and you may have had a shot or the one that came but not the one on the way. And the other thinking is they think that is all they need for prevention. Even though i will say this year we are doing a pretty good job. A, you founded a personalized medical practice, the concierge medical practice in the united states. How does that work and you are celebrity cases . I have patients of all types and backgrounds but personalized medicine is something that plays to me. Look, im an only child i will talk to the cows come home andly do that when its gives me time to spend with patients. Byron they put you on retainer . 247 access to me. Ron run very quickly, where can people get more information . My website is dr. Redcross. Com. And dr. Ken redcross, thank you for coming in. And keep our fingers crossed and hopefully you and i wont get the flu or think one else who takes your advice. Team here, have a great sunday everyone. Realtime closed captioning provided by u. S. Captioning. [the first noel plays] from all of us at sanderson farms, we wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and happy holidays