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10 ways to help students become “future ready”

Ditch That Textbook

For example … managing social media for companies arranging work-from-home or telecommuting optimizing websites for search engines People all over the world are doing [.]. It’s our job to help students prepare for a workforce that we can’t describe.

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7 Questions Principals Should Ask When Hiring Future-Ready Teachers

MindShift

He finds this ridiculous in an era when hiring managers and business leaders routinely say they are looking for employees who can define the problems the company faces and set about attacking them. For example, red might be the most difficult parts of the article, blue could be the key ideas, and yellow could be difficult vocabulary.

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Open Education – Where do I begin?

Tom Murray

This blog was originally posted on the Future Ready website at [link]. Open Education Resources were the highlight of this Future Ready webinar as they align to the Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment gear of the Future Ready Framework. Future Ready Schools. Director of Innovation.

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7 Ways to Close the Access Gap

Tom Murray

Community Partnerships is one of the gears of the Future Ready Framework and the 7th Key of Learning Transformed , indicates that “Community collaboration and engagement must be woven into the fabric of a school’s culture.” Last year, I wrote the post, “ Can Companies Like Facebook Help Close the Access Gap?

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8 LMS features that support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond

Neo LMS

For example, an independent student will be better equipped to face personal and professional challenges without constantly relying on others. . Student autonomy in the classroom is also essential for their future careers. You’ve probably seen it dozens of times before, in e-commerce for example.

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Effective Digital Citizenship Education

The CoolCatTeacher

An exciting example: privacy and security. So let me give you a quick example. Vicki: And digital citizenship is something that concerns all of us in all of our examples. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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Throw out Learning Styles and Replace it with UDL

The CoolCatTeacher

For example, a student came to me some years ago. She is passionate in empowering learners with tools, skills and learning strategies so they become independent self-directed learners with agency who are future ready for college, career and life. Blog: Make Learning Personal : Empowering Every Learner to be Future Ready.

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