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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

Edsurge

EdLeader21 has developed a toolkit to guide districts and independent schools in developing their own “portrait of a graduate” as a visioning exercise. In some communities, global citizenship rises to the top of the wish list of desired outcomes. What can they design that works well for their community?”

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7 Strategies I Use When Students Make Apps (or Do Any Genius Projects)

The CoolCatTeacher

We have this one app called the “Swole Patrol” and that’s an app that’s about exercises by teens for teens. We like things — like Dog Dictionary — that have the same first initial. We also like things that rhyme. That’s a great one. They had another name that was just not so good.

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