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STEM programs can’t keep up with AI–let’s focus on Power Skills

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However, the real question lies in its long-term impact on how we learn and work. Teaching what’s timeless: Power skills and mental models The solution lies in embracing the timeless. This “meta-knowledge” is encapsulated by the set of understandings called Mental Models. Take, for example, leadership.

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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

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public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. EdSurge recently posed a question to a panel of Latino educators and an edtech leader: Is educational technology serving the Latino community, particularly its students? Meanwhile, changing demographics of students in U.S.

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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

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Ken Kay, CEO of EdLeader21 Figuring out how schools should respond, however, remains an open question for many communities. When a student is a contributor,” he adds, “it turbo-charges their ability to employ the other competencies and their content knowledge.” What questions are they asking? The more concrete, the better.

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ISTE 2015: (Re)designing tech-infused lessons for deeper thinking

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This will NOT be a sit-and-get session with a few questions at the end. We will be talking continuously with each other throughout the workshop, so questions will be actively solicited throughout rather than waiting until the end and letting just a few folks ask questions. The one question I’m asking at ISTE 2013.

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Book review – Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today

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My favorite is probably the quote from Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis: ‘In the absence of knowledge, people make up their own.’ Tom and Eric do a great job of citing research in their book, but it would be helpful to have some research-based frameworks and mental models that tie the list items together.