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K–12 Schools Should Teach Soft Skills to Prepare Students for the Future Workforce

EdTech Magazine

A 2017 Report by Dell Technologies estimates that 85 percent of the jobs that will exist in 2030 — fewer than 12 years from now — haven’t been invented yet. Google Classroom is an engaging and useful collaborative tool. Students can use the platform to work together digitally on a project — a skill that employers will welcome.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

Edsurge

And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google. This skills-based hiring trend has real momentum and is also evidenced in analysis of employer job postings and other data sources. are hard at work on standards frameworks.

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Sustainable Development Goals: Writing Journals

User Generated Education

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

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OPINION: The pandemic will leave the next generation of Black tech talent behind

The Hechinger Report

As a result, a recent analysis suggests that students in majority-Black schools are now a full year behind in math compared to their peers in majority-white schools. Google is not going to hire coders who cannot code. Over six years, from 2014 to 2020, Google increased its percentage of Black tech workers from 1.5

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

.” For me, still framing my work that way – “top trends” – is a purposeful rhetorical move to shed light, to subvert, to offer a sly commentary of sorts on the shallowness of what passes as journalism, criticism, analysis. I’m not interested in making quickly thrown-together lists and bullet points.

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The case for ChatGPT as the ultimate educator’s toolkit

eSchool News

While AI may feel like a new field completely disrupting our current systems, it is important to recognize that we are already using AI tools in our daily lives, from navigating travel (Google Maps) and managing calendars (Calendly) to sorting and displaying photos (“memory” photo albums automatically generated by iPhones).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

And maybe educators will rationalize using it anyway… “ Google ’s Mass-Shooting Misinformation Problem” by The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal. And from Phil Hill : “A Note on Data Used for LMS Market Analysis.” “ What will universities look like in 2030?