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Linda Nitsche

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shared by Linda Nitsche on 06 Sep 08 - No Cached
  • Linda Nitsche on 06 Sep 08
     
    Global Citizens is a year long project designed to promote an awareness of issues and concerns around the world through global citizenship. Each month there will be a challenge theme for classes to work on. Classes are invited to participate every month or on the months they are able to.
Lucy Gray

Factories Ready to Hire, but Skilled Workers Scarce - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...02manufacturing.html

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shared by Lucy Gray on 02 Jul 10 - Cached
  • In a survey last year of 779 industrial companies by the National Association of Manufacturers, the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte, the accounting and consulting firm, 32 percent of companies reported “moderate to serious” skills shortages. Sixty-three percent of life science companies, and 45 percent of energy firms cited such shortages.
  • Employers say they are looking for aptitude as much as specific skills. “We are trying to find people with the right mindset and intelligence,” said Mr. Murphy.
  • Local leaders worry that the skills shortage now will be exacerbated once baby boomers start retiring. In Ohio, officials project that about 30 percent of the state’s manufacturing workers will be eligible for retirement by 2016.
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  • The jobs, which would pay $18 to $23 an hour, require considerable technical skill.
  • anonymous on 02 Jul 10
     
    Is assessing basic skills enough in a global economy?
  • anonymous on 02 Jul 10
     
    Yong Zaho is right, the US will loose by teaching to and assessing for basic skills. As Richard Florida and Dan Pink write about it is the Creative Class where there is real growth.
katie mcmahon

NC's Zoo Conservation Education Site - 1 views

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shared by katie mcmahon on 21 Dec 10 - Cached
  • katie mcmahon on 21 Dec 10
     
    Want to take a field trip to Papua New Guinea? You can now! Awesome multimedia tools for your class and great educator's ideas.
Lucy Gray

World-Class Education - 0 views

www.ode.state.oh.us/...ODEDetail.aspx

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shared by Lucy Gray on 27 Mar 08 - Cached
  • Lucy Gray on 27 Mar 08
     
    Cited by Meredith in ADE community
  • Lucy Gray on 27 Mar 08
     
    Cited by Meredith in ADE community
  • Lucy Gray on 27 Mar 08
     
    Cited by Meredith in ADE community
Tero Toivanen

Share This Lecture! on Vimeo - 0 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 15 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Annual lecture for "Cyberworlds" class, Sydney University, 31 March 2009. About the significance of sharing across three domains: sharing media, sharing knowledge, and how these two inevitably lead to the sharing of power.
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