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

.orgSource

The 4Cs or critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication complement technology and will serve any organization well in competitive markets. Although this explanation sounds more like it belongs in the classroom than the office, my takeaway is the focus on uniquely human skills. Don’t waste valuable brain power.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. Taking self-directed and collaborative learning a step further is peeragogy.

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening. Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized.

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DonorsChoose Interview & Social Media Challenge

Amy Sample Ward

My collaborator, JD Lasica , at SocialBrite has just posted the interview and details below. At Socialbrite, we’d like to call on our readers to support students in public school classrooms in low-income areas. There are 12,000 to 14,000 classroom project requests on the site at a time. . The cool part? 264 on Ourmedia.

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6 Best Event Marketing Strategies to Boost Your Hybrid Event Experiences

AccelEvents

Whether you go with a theatre-style set-up, classroom, or perhaps a cabaret, you want to make sure that the venue will support it and that it makes sense for the event goals. With tiered access, be sure that each attendee type is prepared with a schedule and all of the perks that they get with their pricing model.

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Peeragogy: Self Organized Peer Learning in Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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6 Best Event Marketing Strategies to Boost Your Hybrid Event Experiences

AccelEvents

Whether you go with a theatre-style set-up, classroom, or perhaps a cabaret, you want to make sure that the venue will support it and that it makes sense for the event goals. With tiered access, be sure that each attendee type is prepared with a schedule and all of the perks that they get with their pricing model.