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If schools are supposed to be training the workers of the future, the growing consensus is that most of them are not doing a very good job of it.
In a trend that seems long overdue, technology-based companies are increasingly turning inward to bridge the gap between the skills they need employees have and the skills they’re actually graduating from college with.
In 8 Critical Skills For A Modern Education, we offered one view of what ‘modern workplace’ skills might look like, and have argued many times that true ’21st-century learning’ should change what work looks like all together.
(Nevermind that, in our estimation anyway, the purpose of school is not job training.)
Still, companies (for now, anyway) need human workers with certain skills that, increasingly, they just don’t have. It’s nearly 2018, and the concept of 21st-century skills is more than two decades old now.
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Via Stephania Savva, Ph.D, Ivon Prefontaine, PhD, Gust MEES
[Gust MEES] In my blog post I described about WHAT I would like to expect if I would own a company:
https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/10/29/if-i-would-own-a-company-what-skills-would-i-expect-from-my-workers-in-21st-century/
The MOST important anyway is that the learners get taught on <===> #LEARNing2LEARN for #LifelongLEARNing <===> in an EVER changing world to be able to adapt quickly!
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https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/learning-path-for-professional-21st-century-learning-by-ict-practice/