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Consider this: Bill Gates has poured billions of dollars into what he calls the “future of learning” - and Mark Zuckerberg just announced a new $50M ed-tech investment. Both with a big push towards personalized learning. Course Hero, now led by a new CMO - former Google Play Marketing chief, Patrick Mork - wants to also bet on students, by democratizing access to study materials: its 12.5M users, to be exact. By tackling the “The 4 Ls” - crucial problems that students and educators face today - this college student favorite wants to change the way students learn, study, and succeed in the “workplace of the future”. What are the 4 L’s? It’s lack of: #1 TIME: Students today have less time than ever before to master their course material because of more classwork, homework, multiple study groups, extra-curricular activities, and even side jobs to pay their ballooning student bills. #2 MASTERY: Students learn the same material at the same pace but are often not mastering the full conten...

Last month, I published a post entitled "Important Skills Students Need for the Future that we need to help them learn"  in which I described what I, and other research, felt were the most important skills for students to learn to succeed in the future. It also showed that these same skills were important to employers for their employees to have. Here is a nice poster showing 7 Key Skills for Employability. Google Apps , with the right assignments and coaching from the teachers, can be used to help students foster these skills through projects, collaboration, teamwork, research and writing. Related: Important Skills Students Need for the Future that we need to help them learn 10 Technology Skills Every Student Needs for the Future 21st Century Skills resources The 10 Most Important Work Skills in 2020 Project Based Learning resources WPI Plan - a great educational model -

Back in January of 2012, I published a post entitled " 10 Important Skills Students need for the Future " in which I described what I, and other research, felt were the 10 most important skills for students to learn. The list: Sense-making. The ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed Social intelligence. The ability to connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate reactions and desired interactions Novel and adaptive thinking. Proficiency at thinking and coming up with solutions and responses beyond that which is rote or rule-based Cross-cultural competency. The ability to operate in different cultural settings Computational thinking. The ability to translate vast amounts of data into abstract concepts and to understand data-based reasoning New-media literacy. The ability to critically assess and develop content that uses new media forms and to leverage these media for persuasive communication Transdisciplinarity...