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Hello readers,
Today we’re covering 'Upskilling 2025', Amazon's new effort to train its employees, a teaching strategy to develop students with global citizenship, the complex world of soft skills assessment, and how Information Addiction impacts learning.
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Amid accusations of unfair labor practices and strikes by some of its workers, Amazon announced ‘Upskilling 2025’, an initiative to train thousands of its employees in technology areas.
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Tec Global Classroom is a teaching strategy by Tecnológico de Monterrey that enables students to identify, analyze, discuss, and formulate proposals for solutions to real problems in an international context, providing an ideal environment to develop critical global citizenship and employability competencies.
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What are the skills students need to be successful in college and the workforce? How can educators teach those skills? We need a consensus on the way we teach, develop, and assess soft skills.
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Students spent more time online than they do in school, what they learn online can fulfill their curiosity, but it falls short from being meaningful learning.
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Video Games are not often created with teaching purposes in mind; still, they can be great educational tools. Practices like microtransactions jeopardize this educational potential.
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The Messy Reality of Personalized Learning
Skeptics warn that underneath the language of “student-centered” pedagogy is a tech-intensive model that turns public schools into big-data siphons. (The New Yorker)
Bridging the digital skills gap is everyone’s responsibility
"The days of getting your education and then learning from experience in the workplace are over." (Times Higher Education)
Be More Like Amazon?
Higher ed can’t be all things to all people. Leaving training to corporations is a good thing. Let educational institutions educate, says John Warner. (Inside Higher Ed)
University of Texas-Austin Promises Free Tuition For Low-Income Students In 2020
The endowment will cover tuition but not additional living expenses, including room and board, which can add another $17,000 annually. (NPR)
Elementary Education Has Gone Terribly Wrong
"What if the medicine we have been prescribing is only making matters worse, particularly for poor children?" (The Atlantic)
Facebook’s $5 billion FTC fine is an embarrassing joke
Its share price jumped by nearly 2% after reports of the record-breaking fine emerged on Friday. (The Verge)
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“The idea that this would be shared with foreign governments and military is just egregious.”
Says Kim Zetter, a cybersecurity journalist in San Francisco. The New York Times published a story this week about how databases of people’s faces are being compiled without their knowledge by companies and researchers. Duke University researchers, for example, started building a database in 2014 using eight cameras on campus. The researchers ultimately gathered more than two million video frames with images of over 2,700 people.
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