The 8 Skills Students Must Have for the Future

From the Edudemic Blog posting: "...So what are the things that are becoming just as important as the ever-traditional ‘Reading, Writing, and Math’?...Do you already incorporate these ideas into all of your classes? Which do you find hardest?..."

8 Skills Students Must Have for the Future

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Welcome to EDM 510

EDM 510 is course that will explore a variety of information technologies and networked information resources that will aid you in teaching for the 21st Century learner. The fact that you are enrolled in this course suggests to me that you would like to sharpen your skills as a teacher or administrator to adapt to a new instructional environment that is increasingly being populated by a different kind of student. What are the features of this new instructional environment and the characteristics of the students that are a component of this environment? These features and characteristics include: collaboration, creativity, evaluation, analysis, application, understanding, and memorization. Collaboration and creativity are the watchwords and will be essential components of your experience as a student in EDM 510. Much like the students you teach or interact with, through course-related projects and activities, you will need to inquire, invent, design, dream and build ideas to support the active problem solving you will engage in during the conduct of this course. As you well know, in both the classroom and in life, your students will be required to evaluate, analyze, apply, understand, and remember many things and to do so often. One of your jobs as a teacher or administrator is to help your students hone all of these skills; whatever your content area or specialization. Through the suite of activities, projects, assignments, and the use of a variety of information resources and technologies that are all elements of EDM 510, you will gain greater experience in developing all of these skills and more as a student in this course.