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The Finland Phenomenon: Learning from the new Tony Wagner film | Connected Principals - 1 views

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  • Blair Peterson on 10 May 11
     
    Video from Tony Wagner on 21st century skills.
Blair Peterson

How to Get a Job - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Blair Peterson on 30 May 13 - No Cached
  • ony Wagner that the world doesn’t care anymore what you know; all it cares “is what you can do with what you know.”
  • And they increasingly don’t care how those skills were acquired: home schooling, an online university, a massive open online course, or Yale. They just want to know one thing: Can you add value?
    • Blair Peterson
      Blair Peterson on 30 May 13
       
      Can this really be true? How long will it take for this to become the prevailing thought?
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  • A degree document is no longer a proxy for the competency employers need.” Too many of the “skills you need in the workplace today are not being taught by colleges.”
  • Added Sharef: “What surprises me most about people’s skills is how poor their writing and grammar are, even for college graduates.
  • ireArt sees many talented people who are just “confused about what jobs they are qualified for, what jobs are out there and where they fit in.”
  • We gave her a very rigorous test, and she outscored people who had gone to Stanford and Harvard. She ended up as a top applicant for a job that, on paper, she was completely unqualified for.”
    • Blair Peterson
      Blair Peterson on 30 May 13
       
      Excel, really? Couldn't they have come up with a better example than this?
  • he most successful job candidates, she added, are “inventors and solution-finders,” who are relentlessly “entrepreneurial” because they understand that many employers today don’t care about your résumé, degree or how you got your knowledge, but only what you can do and what you can continuously reinvent yourself to do.
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