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Salesforce.org CEO Rob Acker’s Year-End Reflections

Saleforce Nonprofit

And we helped equip educators to better engage with thousands of students when classrooms had to become virtual. At the end of last year, I reflected on the idea of resilience. It may sound simple, and it is. The post Salesforce.org CEO Rob Acker’s Year-End Reflections appeared first on Salesforce.org.

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

.orgSource

Although this explanation sounds more like it belongs in the classroom than the office, my takeaway is the focus on uniquely human skills.

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Nonprofit Leadership Alliance: AMI 2014 Reflections

ASU Lodestar Center

The opportunities for learning and networking were at a higher level than I have had in the classroom. What is even more valuable to many of us would be sound advice on navigating a career path. The out-of-classroom experiences offered by the program at ASU makes all the difference personally and professionally to these students.

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening. Consider other family-oriented products: toys, media, schools.

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Feelings and Participation

Museum 2.0

In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways. Those feelings developed over hours of classroom time with a human. Sound is often a good surprise in spaces. People go to museums for leisure.)

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. Dr. Mizuko Ito made the point that digital learning is happening primarily outside fo the classroom and in more of a social and play context. "We know very little about the learning that is happening outside of classrooms."

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Warning: Museum Graduate Programs Spawn Legions of Zombies!

Museum 2.0

This may sound reasonable; any life choice is a personal decision. She reflected and said that she would always prefer someone with interesting, diverse real-world experience over someone who just has a graduate degree. But should they happen in a classroom? But no one can list the tangible skills these programs impart.

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