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This high school demonstrates the important role leadership plays in bringing about change.
"The library system probably won’t disappear anytime soon, but rather, see itself blossoming into something new and exciting in congruence with today’s myriad informational demands."
"The more educators give students choice, control, challenge, and opportunities to collaborate, the more motivated and engaged those students will be and the more they will learn, according to a new research paper"
We have a continuously expanding archive of videos of adults in all professions. The videos are intended to give you a snapshot of an important lesson or experience that these people have had, that has helped them get to where they are now. We want you to be able to learn about a lot of these lessons quickly, and then be able to apply them to your own life to help you get ahead.
Email letters to yourself to remind you do to things. You can also write a letter to the future. All kinds of fascinating uses for this app and website.
#1 - communication management - how much is too much?
Excellent Prezi providing suggestions on how to future-proof your education. Very well done with engaging visuals.
One of the factors: "Ignore standardized test results, obsess over self-confidence levels.This means, of course, that it doesn’t matter how one performs on national standardized tests since those test scores do not have impact on the sixty years one spends in the workforce."
Rethiniking student journalism through social media.
After a quick registration process, you pick an “artifact” from the library. Each artifact has a very engaging interactive display sharing information about it. Then you a given an unusual writing prompt related to the artifact, and you have to write a story. There’s more to it than that, but it is intriguing and accessible.
How will emerging technology improve our productivity in the years ahead? What opportunities will arise from evolving trends and global change? Microsoft has collaborated with customers, partners, and thought leaders across multiple disciplines to develop scenarios that explore how long-term trends, customer challenges, and emerging technologies might converge to improve our lives, both at work and home.
Notes from ISTE11 session: 4 important components to 1:1 programs
*Strategic Foundation
*Pedagogy
*Infrasturcture
*Community on board
While preparing students for careers is not the only function of schools, how are we doing at preparing students for the future world of work? This blog post captures what the world of work will look like in the next decade.
This post is a summary of forecasted changes in education in the next decade. It’s a thought-provoking list compiled from reports published by Institute for the Future, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, and New Media Consortium.
This video provides an example of how students of the 21st century compose in both words and images. Rutgers is re-imagining the humanities for the 21st century.
"Hybrid careers like Dr. Halamka’s that combine computing with other fields will increasingly be the new American jobs of the future, labor experts say. In other words, the nation’s economy is going to need more cool nerds. But not enough young people are embracing computing — often because they are leery of being branded nerds."
"This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project
initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on
handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for
digital magazines in the near future, presented by our design partners
at BERG."
Futurism as it's practiced today doesn't try to predict the future, but rather to illuminate unexpected implications of present-day issues; the emphasis isn't on what will happen, but on what could happen, given various observed drivers.
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