21st century skills

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Lifelong learnings

Always learning In an earlier post , I explored the use of the phrase ‘Always learning’ as a promotional tagline by Pearson. Pearson’s use of

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There’s a video on YouTube from Oxford University Press in which the presenter, the author of a coursebook for primary English language learners

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You stand, triumphant in front of a crowd cheering your name. After years of dedicated training and countless hours of practice, you’ve made it to

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You have probably heard the following joke, or a version of it. What do we call a person who speaks three languages? A trilingual. And a person who

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John Kao A Pathway of Improvisation By Ella Wilcox This article first appeared in the October 2021 issue of Teaching Music. Thought leader John Kao

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In a year of continued challenges for educators, advocates for computer science education are serving up some good news. This year marked a tipping

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In a country where computer technology was born and bred, where technological innovation has fueled untold economic growth and opportunity, where

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In January, Colby College announced the formation of the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, calling it the “first cross-disciplinary

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A retrospectiveWhere it all startedFive years ago I started “locking” educators in a room filled with puzzles while I evaluated them from a

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Now Is the Time! Music Education “Challenges” Core Curricula for First Chair By NAfME Members Lori Schwartz Reichl and Andrew B. Spang “If

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On 21 January, I attended the launch webinar of DEFI (the Digital Education Futures Initiative), an initiative of the University of Cambridge, which

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No matter your age, position, or ambition, learning is a lifelong activity. Many teachers embody this philosophy themselves – and would like

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As a Spanish learner, I once faced the awkward situation of thinking I was having a conversation about new potatoes being on the menu, when in fact

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All things told, it’s been a pretty good year for thought leaders. The face-to-face gigs have dried up, but there’s no shortage of online demand.

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“The world is undergoing revolutionary changes, we need a revolution in education too.” Creative Schools, Ken Robinson In February 2006, the