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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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Although this explanation sounds more like it belongs in the classroom than the office, my takeaway is the focus on uniquely human skills. Ask probing questions, consider a variety of opinions, including ideas that may be unpopular, and insist on objective analysis. Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

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I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. They have to do a network map and analysis as well as strategy for a development organization in their area of student.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

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Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ?

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual).

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Online Learning Trends That You Can’t Ignore

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Today’s tech-savvy, social and mobile learners are no longer interested in traditional classroom training and demand learning techniques that blends best with their current working style and outlook. Mobile learning. Data Analytics.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Educating To Mobilize the Masses

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We'll explore how games can scale up learning to build capacity for thousands of grassroots organizations. -- I missed a lot the first presenter's piece, but got the end here: Ways of knowing and Ways of doing - reflection in action. Someone who takes action and reflect on it. The answers after gave them more analysis.