Ten Skills for the Future Workforce
Ten Skills for the Future Workforce Sense-making, social intelligence, novel & adaptive thinking, cross-cultural competency, computational thinking, new-media literacy, transdisciplarity, design mindset, cognitive load management, virtual collaboration. These are the 10 skills needed for the future workforce.
14 Ways to Acquire Knowledge: A Timeless Guide from 1936
Consider the knowledge you already have — the things you really know you can do. They are the things you have done over and over; practiced them so often that they became second nature. Every normal person knows how to walk and talk. But he could never have acquired this knowledge without practice. For the young child can’t do the things that are easy to older people without first doing them over and over and over.
Australian comedian perfectly sums up why other countries think US gun laws a...
At least 14 people were killed and 18 others injured when two shooters opened fire on at the Inland Regional Center, a social services provider for people with disabilities, in San Bernardino Wednesday, December 2. The shooters have been identified as Syed Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, who were in a relationship with each other. Motives are still unclear. Every shooting is its own private tragedy for the victims and their families. But events like this are also part of a much bigger problem. The United States has far more gun violence than the rest of the developed world.
10 Ways to Spot a Fake News Article - EasyBib Blog
For many of us, 2016 is going down as a year to forget. Election upsets, Zika, the Syrian crisis, and unfortunately tons of fake news about all of the above and everything in between. Denzel Washington was recently quoted as saying, “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you’re misinformed.”
24 Best Poems to Teach in Middle and High School
It can be hard to know which poems will spur your middle and high schoolers into deep, meaningful discussion and which will leave them, ahem, yawning. So we asked experienced teachers to share their favorites—the punch-in-the-gut poems that always get a reaction, even from teens. Here's what they had to say. 1. Snow by David Berman Captures a narrative in miniature with a creative structure. 2.
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Tutorials: Two brief videos from ABC News (one focuses on the videos available on YouTube that "teach" cheating): From Connect with Kids: High Tech Cheating A brief video and article (August 18th, 2010)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Articles & Videos
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Manual tasks and ergonomics
Manual tasks includes a range of activities in the school and work environment including moving furniture, entering data into a computer, carrying a bag full of sporting equipment, using a hedge trimmer and transferring a student from a wheelchair onto a toilet. These tasks involve the exertion of force to lift, lower, push, pull, carry, move, hold, slide or transfer a person or object. Manual tasks can contribute to a range of musculoskeletal disorders (injuries) including: Sprains and strains of musclesInjuries to muscles, ligaments, discs and other structures of the backInjuries to soft tissues such as nerves, tendons, ligaments in the wrists, arms and shoulders. These types of injuries are often cumulative with damage occurring over a period of time before pain or injury is apparent. Some work activities may present additional hazards that can also overload the body and lead to injury.
Children prefer to read books on paper rather than screens
There is a common perception that children are more likely to read if it is on a device such as an iPad or Kindles. But new research shows that this is not necessarily the case. In a study of children in Year 4 and 6, those who had regular access to devices with eReading capability (such as Kindles, iPads and mobile phones) did not tend to use their devices for reading - and this was the case even when they were daily book readers. Research also found that the more devices a child had access to, the less they read in general.
Julia Roberts plays Mother Earth and Harrison Ford stars as the Ocean as Holl...
Ecosystem services. You’ve nodded off already, haven’t you? But wake up! Here are some Hollywood A-listers making a decent attempt to move beyond the obscure jargon and reveal the existential nature of what the Earth provides for humanity.
Print your own masterpieces and digital pens
People can now access much of Sydney’s Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences’ extensive collection online. High-resolution images of more than 130,000 objects are available for viewing on a new, mobile-friendly collections website. The Museum, which includes the Powerhouse Museum, is one of a host around the world making their collections and data available for free public use.
