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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...