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Education Week: Panel of Scholars Define '21st-Century Skills' - 0 views
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skills considered necessary for the 21st-century workplace generally fall into three categories: cognitive, such as critical thinking and analytic reasoning to learn "deeply"; interpersonal, such as teamwork and complex communication; and intrapersonal, such as resiliency and conscientiousness.
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focus more research and resources on nonacademic skills.
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a student's ability to transfer and apply existing knowledge to a problem in a new context. "Transfer is the sort of Holy Grail in this whole thing," Mr. Pellegrino said. "We'd like to believe we can create Renaissance men who are experts in a wide array of disciplines and can blithely transfer skills from one to the other, but it just doesn't happen that way."
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21st Century Skills - cognitive: critical thinking & analytic reasoning - interpersonal: teamwork and complex communication - intrapersonal: resiliency and conscientiousness. Recommended that we focus more on nonacademic skills. Keen interest in a student's ability to transfer and apply existing knowledge to a problem in a new context.
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Jing, screenshot and screencast software from TechSmith - 0 views
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A fantastic tool for teachers and students to create screencasts and screenshots. Teachers and students can annotate over screenshots they take. Implications: Teachers can find any visual stimuli and students can add their comments or solutions over top. Teachers can then grade their responses. Teachers and students can also record instructional tutorials for others to view. So many options here.
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A fantastic tool for teachers and students to create screencasts and screenshots. Teachers and students can annotate over screenshots they take. Implications: Teachers can find any visual stimuli and students can add their comments or solutions over top. Teachers can then grade their responses. Teachers and students can also record instructional tutorials for others to view. So many options here.
Educational Leadership:Giving Students Meaningful Work:Five Hallmarks of Good Homework - 0 views
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5 essential principles to abide by when designing homework for students: - keep it purposeful - demonstrates learning efficiently - create ownership between the content and the student - appropriate to their level of understanding - not one-size-fits-all - aesthetic appeal
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5 essential principles to abide by when designing homework for students: - keep it purposeful - demonstrates learning efficiently - create ownership between the content and the student - appropriate to their level of understanding - not one-size-fits-all - aesthetic appeal