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by Katherine Prince
"With increasing frequency, social-emotional learning (SEL) is getting renewed attention — in research, in policy and in the classroom. It’s not a new concept, so why is there new interest? Education stakeholders increasingly realize that it prepares students not only for today, but also for tomorrow.
"There are some job skills that transcend industry: deep self-knowledge, emotional regulation and empathy and perspective taking. These three areas of social-emotional skills provide a strong foundation upon which people can grow specific functional skills and knowledge. In addition to core academic knowledge, how might we make these skills central to teaching and learning?"
Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa) , Jim Lerman
I was a little skeptical on this. However, if you think about it-it makes sense. All of this technology used for social media is impeding students from learning to critically think, collaborate, empathize-among other things. Helping them learn to work closely with others in a school environment will help them learn to engage well with others at work and in society as a whole when they are adults.