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Shorter Training, Better Skills: Three Predictions For The Future Of Career And Technical Education

On 01/25/2022, in 21st century, Alternatives, business, business side of he, career development, change, changing business models, cost of getting a degree, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, lifelong learning, skills, society, student-related, traditional / tradition, trends, United States, vocational / trades, workplace, youth, by Daniel Christian

Shorter Training, Better Skills: Three Predictions For The Future Of Career And Technical Education — from forbes.com by Jeremy Wheaton; with thanks to Ryan Craig for this resource

But in the face of an entrenched and growing skills gap, young people are increasingly questioning the status quo and looking for shorter, less expensive, more direct-to-career options.

Excerpts:

Here [is the first of] three predictions for how the rest of the 2020s will continue to be defined by career education:

  1. The four-year degree will no longer be seen as the default postsecondary education option.
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6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2022 [Gonzalez]

On 01/24/2022, in A/V -- audio/visual, active learning, art, attention, creativity, digital learning, education, education technology, educational games / serious games, engagement / engaging students, experimentation, Google, K-12 related, learning, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, learning preferences, mathematics, more choice more control, passions, platforms, reading, STEAM-related, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, writing, XR - extended reality, by Daniel Christian

6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2022 — from cultofpedagogy.com by Jennifer Gonzalez

Excerpts:

This year, for the very first time, I hired a team of ed tech experts to help me with the update. The task was becoming overwhelming and I knew if I was going to keep it up, I had to have some help. Here they are below: Marnie Diem, Brandie Wright, Lucia Hassell, and Kim Darche.
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5. EVERFI
everfi.com/k-12

Originally a site that offered free financial literacy courses to students, EVERFI has expanded its course offerings to include career exploration (including one specific to STEM careers), social and emotional learning, diversity and inclusion, and health and wellness. Their newest additions are courses in healthcare literacy, data science and banking fraud, and compassion and empathy.

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Arizona State wants to reach 100M learners by 2030. Can it meet its goal? [Schwartz]

On 01/24/2022, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, higher education, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, online learning, society, student-related, teaching online, United States, universities, by Daniel Christian

Arizona State wants to reach 100M learners by 2030. Can it meet its goal? — from highereddive.com by Natalie Schwartz

Dive Brief:

  • Arizona State University launched an initiative Thursday that aims to reach 100 million learners worldwide in an online global management and entrepreneurship certificate program by 2030.
  • The certificate program, which will be translated into 40 languages, will be offered through Arizona State’s Thunderbird School of Global Management. An initial donation of $25 million is helping to fund the program, which will make the certificates free to learners through full scholarships.
  • Learners will receive a badge after completing each of five graduate-level courses in the program. Completion of all the courses leads to a certificate granting 15 credit hours that can be applied to degrees at Thunderbird, Arizona State and other institutions, according to a program brochure.

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Exemplar of successful implementation of tech in schools [Clark]

On 01/18/2022, in 21st century, Africa, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Deep Learning, content aggregration, content development, content repositories, education, education reform, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, engineering, ideas, innovation, IT in HE, K-12 related, leadership, learning, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, personalized/customized learning, professional development, robotics, skills, student-related, teaching & learning, UK, vendors, vision/possibilities, by Daniel Christian

Exemplar of successful implementation of tech in schools — from donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com by Donald Clark

Excerpts:

It was impressive to find a school network that took technology as seriously as Curro, in South Africa. They had invited me to give a keynote on AI for Learning, based on my book and experience but I hung around as the teacher sessions were so damn good. This is what I learnt, as I think it is a recipe for success.
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This was the big surprise. There were glowing testimonials from teachers about the power of adaptive learning, using AI, to personalise learning for students. It was described as a ‘gamechanger’ by the teacher who presented, with clear targeting, so that efficient and relevant, individual interventions could be made for students. It was clear that they knew why they wanted this technology, had implemented it well and were using teacher feedback to spread the word internally.

I was giving a talk as part of that process. The day’s activities were under the banner of ‘Imagining 2022’. It’s hard enough to Imagine what any year will bring these days but it was clear that this was a learning organisation, willing to learn from their mistakes and make the effort to plan forward.

Also see:

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Surprised? Me neither. And that’s part of the problem. [Christian]

On 01/17/2022, in business side of he, career development, colleges, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, higher education, parents, participation, society, sociology, student-related, United States, universities, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
For those who work within higher education, my guess is that this phenomenon/message comes as no surprise. But for those outside of higher ed, can you blame young people — and their families — for giving up on a path because it appears too expensive? 

Perceptions of Affordability — from insidehighered.com by Elizabeth Redden
High school juniors who believe they can’t afford higher education are about 20 percentage points less likely to attend college within the first three years after high school than peers who don’t think affordability is a barrier.

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Trends Shaping Education in 2022 [Vander Ark]

On 01/17/2022, in active learning, Bias | Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DE&I), CMS/LMS, collaboration, communications, competency-based learning/education, credentialing, future, ideas, immersion, innovation, K-12 related, leadership, learning, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, learning preferences, more choice more control, parents, platforms, skills, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning, trends, United States, using teams, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Trends Shaping Education in 2022 — from gettingsmart.com by Tom Vander Ark

Key Points:

  • It’s hard to see trends in a crisis.
  • Around the edges and behind the scenes three important shifts accelerated: new learning goals, team tools and staffing, and active learning.

 

2022 Learning Trends

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Jennifer Leban’s “If-Then” slides for transitioning curriculum between in-person and e-learning

On 01/17/2022, in collaboration, communications, digital learning, digital video, distance education, education technology, elearning, experimentation, face-to-face, Google, learning, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, online learning, participation, pedagogy, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning, tools, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

Google Slides here

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Methods and tools to develop future-ready skills [Dene Poth]

On 01/14/2022, in art, CMS/LMS, collaboration, communications, creativity, digital learning, education technology, educational games / serious games, ideas, innovation, interactivity, K-12 related, learning, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, learning preferences, more choice more control, multimedia, project-based learning, skills, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning, tools, vendors, youth, by Daniel Christian

Methods and tools to develop future-ready skills — from blog.neolms.com by Rachelle Dene Poth

Excerpt:

Because of the changes that we experienced in the past year, I believe that it is important to have various options, whether teaching in-person, hybrid, or virtually. Choosing methods like Genius hour or project-based learning, activities such as scavenger hunts or learning stations, or selecting digital tools that promote more interaction with and between students will help foster the development of essential future-ready and SEL skills.

There are many methods and tools to explore, but it’s important to focus on the why behind the choices we make for our students. The use of digital tools promotes collaboration, communication, creativity and many more essential skills while also promoting the power of choice for students to share what they have learned.

More choice. More control.

Also see:

Escape rooms have become very popular as a place teams can go to work out how to get free from the room in which they are “trapped.” It’s like a real-world version of a computer game that makes you work together to solve puzzles to escape from somewhere.

Breakout EDU helps to bring that experience to educators so as to better engage students and help them learn while having fun.

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DC: Yup. “A portable, secure and verified digital wallet for learning, work and life.”

On 01/10/2022, in Alternatives, Blockchain, career development, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, CMS/LMS, colleges, communities of practice, community colleges, content aggregration, content repositories, copyright/ownership/NFTs, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, credentialing, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, disruption, education technology, emerging technologies, experimentation, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, Google, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, instructional design, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, internet, IT in HE, learner profiles, learning, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning preferences, lifelong learning, microlearning, mobile learning, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, online learning, Personal Learning Networks (PLNs), personalized/customized learning, platforms, professional development, reinvent, staying relevant, student-related, surviving, technologies for your home, tools, training / L&D, ubiquitous learning, United States, universities, vendors, vision/possibilities, vocational / trades, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Resource via @ernperez
at this article/page.

From DSC:

Cloud-based learner profiles are a likely element of our future learning ecosystems

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5 Ways Teachers Can Help Students in Their Online Learning Journey [edtechreview.in]

On 01/05/2022, in blended learning, collaboration, education, education technology, educational games / serious games, flipping -- inverted learning, hybrid learning, ideas, India, innovation, instructional design, internet, online learning, social learning / networks, social media, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning, teaching online, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

5 Ways Teachers Can Help Students in Their Online Learning Journey — from edtechreview.in

Excerpt:

With the growing prominence of online education and its integration into the daily lives of students, teachers can play an active role in helping students in their online learning journey. Here’s how:

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More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary [Pappano]

On 01/04/2022, in career development, engagement / engaging students, entrepreneurship, K-12 related, reinvent, skills, society, student-related, surviving, vision/possibilities, workplace, youth, by Daniel Christian

More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary — from hechingerreport.org by Laura Pappano
The pandemic has made counselors reflect on how to help students evaluate many different paths and opportunities, then figure out what interests them

Excerpt:

Many high schools, said Anderson, “like to promote the fact that 100 percent or 95 percent are college-bound.” Such data points are not barometers of success, she argues, because they are more about “sending students off to the next institution” than helping them work through individual needs, skills and desires.

Are people ready to rethink what “success” looks like? And how to help students achieve it?

For teens across the country — many of them burnt out, confused or newly questioning long-held plans — that conversation is coming alive. It is unfolding amid scrutiny of the cost and value of a college degree and the multiplying options for alternative training.

 

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American Bar Association (ABA) calls on lawyers to join push to tackle the student debt crisis [Turner]

On 01/03/2022, in career development, cost of getting a degree, Cost of legal services - including access, funding / grants, law schools, student-related, by Daniel Christian

American Bar Association (ABA) calls on lawyers to join push to tackle the student debt crisis — from abajournal.com by Reginald Turner

Excerpts:

Graduating from law school and starting a legal career should be an exciting and hopeful time. But for far too many, student debt causes apprehension and struggle.

A 2020 ABA survey found the average debt for law school graduates has increased to more than $150,000—a staggering amount that affects their personal and professional lives and adversely impacts the economy.

The survey found 95% of respondents borrowed money for their JD degrees. Of those who borrowed, more than 80% indicated student debt has disrupted the trajectory of their career or personal life, causing them to weigh salary more heavily in their job selection or put off home purchases, marriage, children or vacations.

While some law school graduates land high-paying jobs at big firms, that is not the reality for the majority. Many new lawyers work at lower-paying public sector jobs—at nonprofits serving disadvantaged individuals; in prosecutors’ and public defenders’ offices; and at local, state and federal government agencies.

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lunanotes.io — I haven’t tried this Chrome extension, but it looks interesting [Christian]

On 12/31/2021, in adjunct faculty, colleges, community colleges, content aggregration, content development, content repositories, corporate universities / corporate training, digital learning, digital video, education technology, faculty, Google, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, ideas, innovation, IT in HE, K-12 related, law schools, learning, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, liberal arts, student-related, tools, training / L&D, vendors, vision/possibilities, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
I haven’t tried this Chrome extension, but it looks interesting.

lunanotes.io — website — Chrome extension page

LunaNotes helps you take notes within YouTube, while still watching the video(s). You can customize your notes with their easy-to-use editor, take screenshots of the video and write, draw or add shapes over the screenshot with their screenshot editor.

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28 Website Accessibility Terms to Know in 2022 [Juviler]

On 12/29/2021, in accessibility / UDL, assistive technologies, business, colleges, communications, communities of practice, community colleges, content development, corporate universities / corporate training, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, higher education, instructional design, K-12 related, law schools, legislatures / government / legal, Metaverse, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, multimedia, online learning, online media, online tutoring, society, special needs, student-related, teaching & learning, United States, universities, usability, user experience (UX), vendors, web design and production, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

28 Website Accessibility Terms to Know in 2022 — from blog.hubspot.com by Jamie Juviler

Excerpt:

No matter the type of website you run or the industry that you’re in, prioritizing web accessibility is key to your success.
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To ensure your website meets today’s standards for web accessibility, you’ll first need to understand the terminology. Accessibility is a big, dense area with a lot of jargon, acronyms, and codes — enough to steer a new website owner away from the topic altogether.

That’s why we’ve put together this glossary of 28 essential web accessibility terms any website owners should be aware of. By knowing the language, you’ll find it much easier to adopt accessibility principles on your own site and better serve visitors with disabilities.

Addendum on 12/31/21:

Accessibility awareness is on the rise, but is it turning into action? — from techcrunch.com by Joe Devon

Excerpts:

A Harris Poll reveals that more than half of American adults increased their online activities because of the pandemic. That number grows to 60% for people with disabilities.

The increase in online activities does not mean that everyone is able to achieve their goals. So, what kind of impact is the crisis having on accessibility? Are organizations finally getting the message on the importance of accessibility?
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With that, here are the key results from the Alexa top 100 website testing:

    • Out of the websites tested, 62% were accessible to screen readers, up from 40% in 2020.
    • Every single page passed for having the valid document “lang” attribute.
    • Only 11% of websites tested had errors in input field labels.
    • The most common error was the use of ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications specification)
    • The second most common error was color contrast.

From DSC:
That last article linked to:

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Podcasts in the classroom + reading resources for creating lifelong learners from 2peasandadog.com

On 12/29/2021, in Apple, Canada, content aggregration, content repositories, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, education technology, Google, K-12 related, lifelong learning, podcasting, reading, story, storytelling, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning, by Daniel Christian

How to Listen to Podcasts in the Classroom — from 2peasandadog.com

Excerpts:

Podcasts can be used in the classroom for a variety of purposes. They are great for practicing listening skills, listening to stories, building a classroom community, and reinforcing academic content, among many others.
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Teachers can access podcasts via websites, Apple apps, and Android apps.

Also from 2peasandadog.com, see:

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