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This blog is set up to give STEM Academy families tools to think about learning in positive ways both in and OUT of the classroom.
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In the first week of October I am asking that you watch, “The Adaptable Mind.” This short video explores the skills we need to flourish in the 21st Century. The film begins with a question to the world through social media: what’s a great example of a 21st century mind in action?
Of the hundreds of inspiring stories that flooded in, one stood out: Los Angeles-based professor and artist, Mary Beth Heffernan, was listening to coverage of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and how isolating and traumatic it must be for patients to interact only with hazmat suits for weeks on end. She thought, “what if they put pictures of their faces on the front of the suits?” Thousands of letters, grants, and hurdles later, Mary Beth’s story reveals that, while there is a lot of fear that technology is displacing our jobs,
the skills we need most in the 21st Century —
curiosity, creativity, taking initiative, multi-disciplinary thinking, and empathy
— happen to be skills that
machines don’t have
; only humans have
.
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Posted by
Jason Hall
On Nov 30, 2016 at 1:15 PM
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