- 10 Tech Skills Every Student Should Have

Do humanities graduates have the edge in the job market? Thinking about where your degree might lead you? 60% of the UK's leaders have humanities, arts or social science degrees. Photograph: Dario Lopez-Mills/AP Digital Footprints in Education » Social Bookmarking Social Bookmarking Reflection Not sure blogs are good at letting you keep annotated bibliographies of good sites/tools, but it is easy enough to build a page with hyperlinks and text. Having a Hotlinks tools or similar is very handy.

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«Free digital tools in Blooms This list is distinctive as the resources are a) free and b) almost exclusively browser based. The list is also sorted by Blooms, meaning you are able to more easily consider your student outcomes FIRST. There are a few exceptions. Many College Students Lack Needed Tech Skills When students enter college, they either have it or they don't. And which side of the digital divide they fall on may well shape their identities and what route they take into careers, suggests a new study. The research looked at the computer technology knowledge of 500 undergraduate students and how skills they brought from high school impacted their early college coursework. The findings, published online in advance of regular publication in the journal New Media and Society, should be on the radar screens of both high school and university educators, says Joanna Goode, a professor of education studies in the University of Oregon's College of Education. Institutions, she said, "are perpetuating rather than resisting inequalities associated with the digital divide." "I found that high-school opportunities around technology really shape students' abilities to engage fully in university academic life," Goode said.

How graduates can prove they have the skills employers want CV writing for graduates: Be sure to highlight your skills, says Clare Whitmell. Photograph: Dorling Kindersley/Getty Employers hire on a mix of attitude, skills and experience. There are ways you can highlight a great attitude on your CV and a robust experience section is crucial. But you also need to prove you have the skills that employers want. A lack of the right skills is letting graduates down, according to two recent articles. Petite Lasagnas « Can You Stay for Dinner? recipe slightly adapted from Hungry Girl (makes 12) 12 oz raw ground turkey ¼ tsp salt, divided ¼ tsp pepper 1 cup chopped onion

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A Foreign Language Is The Best Way To Stand Out In Tough Job Market 2inShare97 Looking for a cool job? Check out Black Enterprise’s Cool Jobs section for profiles on, well, some cool jobs! Looking for another way to stand out in a tough job market, plus increase your competitiveness and versatility down the road in your career? If you can commit to adding one or more languages to your resume, you’ll instantly stand out from the crowd. Alan November: How Teachers and Tech Can Let Students Take Control For many educators, helping students direct their own learning is a priority. Educator and author Alan November, who has been talking about ways to get students to own their learning for years, draws on his experiences as a teacher, principal and education consultant to tell stories about some of the ideas he sees as integral to education. November joined Steve Hargadon in a discussion of his new book Who Owns the Learning: Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age, stressing the importance of global collaboration and the role of technology in making it all possible.

50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved. Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers. Here, we’ve compiled a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher’s tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom. Social Learning These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect.

5 technology skills every student needs before they leave high school May 24, 2011 by mrkaiser208 The title says high school, but the more I think about it, maybe I should say, 5 technology skills every student needs before they enter middle school. As wrote yesterday, the earlier students learn these skills, the more they can actually use them. These are the skills that allows students great freedom in expressing themselves in the 21st Century.