Why Graduates Can’t Find Great Jobs
by Michael D Flint | EdTech.MichaelDFlint.com | 21st Century Skills
The working environment of today’s elite companies and organizations are designed to encourage collaboration, flexibility, and communication – requisites to the success of these institutions. This means the workforce that occupies those spaces consists of critical thinkers, problem-solvers, and creative innovators.
Global Strategy Group, a prominent research firm, at the request of Woods Bagot – a Design and Build firm, conducted an online survey of 500 elite business decision-makers nationwide. Here is what they found out. …More
Good Read: Mark Cuban “The Coming Meltdown of Education”
by Mark Cuban | blogmaverick.com | Changing Education
When a leader in business innovation speaks to the future of education it might be a good idea to hear him out.
By comparing the rise and fall of the housing market with observations in education, Cuban describes a future collapse of education that our schools, the job market, and the future economic stability of our country cannot afford.
“At some point potential students will realize that they can’t flip their student loans for a job in 4 years. In fact they will realize that college may be the option for fun and entertainment, but not for education. Prices for traditional higher education will skyrocket so high over the next several years that potential students will start to make their way to non accredited institutions.” …More
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Report: Classifying K-12 Blended Learning
By Heather Staker and Michael B. Horn | Innosight Institute | Blended Learning
As blended learning continues to expand across the K-12 sector, definitions are important to help people talk about the new phenomena. This white paper refines our previous work in helping to create a shared language for the emerging field so that innovators can build upon each other’s ideas, rather than talk past each other.
In the white papers, titled “The rise of K-12 blended learning” and “The rise of K-12 blended learning: Profiles of emerging models,” we suggested a preliminary definition of blended learning and categorization structure. This white paper introduces a refined definition and description of models based on feedback from over 80 organizations and 100 educators who commented on the initial research. …More
Management Professors Offer Advice for Job Seekers
by Jessica Driscoll | Gloucester County Times | Project Based Learning
A few management professors from Rowan’s Rohrer College of Business offered advice for new and recent graduates seeking that first job out of college and the many they will pursue throughout their professional lives.
Not surprising, Dr. Robert Fleming, professor at Rowan University, encourages students to gain as much real-world experience gained through internships and Project Based Learning. “Simply having a business management major is not enough to obtain a job in business. ‘Work experience’ obtained through an internship or project-based learning assignments is a differentiator.”
“You need to believe in yourself and be proactive in making the case that you possess the unique knowledge, skills and attitudes that will enable you to excel in the position for which you are applying.” …More
Six Affirmations for PBL Teachers
by Andrew Miller | Buck Institute for Edutopia | Project Based Learning
Andrew Miller has written a very helpful and insightful article for Edutopia “affirming” the distinct role of a PBL teacher.
All good teachers desire to see their students grow in knowledge and skill and are constantly seeking new ideas for meeting the needs of their students, Miller says, while acknowledging that “there is something about being a PBL teacher that requires different work, and work that is especially capitalized when implementing a PBL project.”
Miller describes six areas that PBL teachers should especially be proud of and lists them as the following affirmations: …More
Online Learning | Disruptive Innovation in Progress
by Michael B. Horn | Innosight Institute for eSchool News | Online Learning
Online learning is growing and growing quickly. Many are excited about its prospects, while some are not.
While many in education are attempting to discover where online learning fits within the current educational structure, many recognize this “disruptive innovation” as a vital key to the future of true differentiated learning and individualized instruction.
In a recent article by Michael B. Horn and posted in eSchool News, Horn takes a look at where he believes Online Learning is headed and, more importantly, why. …More
Google Launches New Search Education Site with Lesson Plans
by Tina Barseghian | MindShift | Educational Technology
Google has launched a new site called Search Education aimed at educators who want to teach online search strategies.
The site includes lesson plans geared at different levels of expertise — beginner, intermediate and advanced– as well as training videos that walk through different strategies for subjects like using Creative Commons and Google maps. …More
How Project-Based Learning Builds 21st-Century Skills
Suzie Boggs | Edutopia.com | Project-Based Learning
Back in 2005, West Virginia embarked on a bold effort to reinvent public education. Teachers took part in summer institutes where they learned how to be successful with project-based learning, a strategy for teaching 21st-century skills along with important academic content.
Before long, West Virginia was capitalizing on the leadership of its homegrown PBL experts. …More
Prezi Gets a PowerPoint Import Feature
by Harry McCracken | TIME.com | Educational Technology
Web-based presentation service Prezi, which lets you create fluid shows that zoom in, zoom out and pan around information using either predetermined paths or ones you create on the fly, has as little in common with PowerPoint as it possibly can and still be in the same category.
But it’s announcing a new feature today which is so logical that I was startled when I realized it didn’t already exist: the ability to import files from Microsoft‘s presentation package. …More
Seven Myths About How Students Learn
By ICG | ICG | General Education
Will Rogers once said, “It isn’t what people don’t know that hurts them. It’s what they do know that just ain’t so.”
All of us – teachers, parents, and students – retain outdated ideas about learning that are based largely on our previous experiences in school. Modern brain science has helped steer us in the right direction.
ICG presents seven learning myths, that unfortunately many of of us still cling to today. …More
Samples, Samples, Samples | PBL Projects
By MichaelDFlint | EdTech.MichaelDFlint.com | Project-Based Learning
Obviously, developing projects for PBL is both the most important and most difficult part of Project Based Learning. Designing projects can be simpler when you have a sample to work from. Here are links to the best samples of Project Based Learning projects I could find on the web. …More
7 Steps to Designing High Quality PBL
By Thom Markham | edge.ascd.org | Project-Based Learning
PBL is a far more evolved method of instruction. Well-executed PBL begins with the recognition that, as in the real world, it’s often difficult to distinguish between acquiring information and using it.
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