Skills & Training
Help us identify new types of ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ skills that today’s young people might need to succeed in the workplace, and the ways in which they’re being acquired.
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A Fresh Perspective
Maximize sustainable innovation for companies and value in a student intern experience by implementing methods through which both students and employees work together to identify and propose opportunities for improvement and innovation.


Find yourself
knowing the filed you are meant to be within is the most critical thing in your life .. so one should first find himself .


BUILD: high school entrepreneurs
BUILD engages struggling high schoolers to imagine, design and run their own businesses. Not only do they provide valuable entrepreneurship shills, it engages at-risk kids and encourages them to stay in school.


Coursera - Bringing the classroom to the workspace
It's a world where skills required in the workplace are both diverse and continually changing. So what if you never learned about user interface or programming languages in school. If you need it on the job, learn it online! For free!


EdX (Harvard + MIT)
"EdX is a joint partnership between The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University to offer online learning to millions of people around the world. EdX will offer Harvard and MIT classes online for free."


Imagine Cup
For the past ten years Microsoft has been helping students reach their dreams and potential in technology through the Imagine Cup http://www.imaginecup.com/


Skillshare
Skillshare is a community marketplace to learn anything from anyone. We believe that everyone has something they want to learn and something they can teach to others. This means our communities are really the greatest universities.


Stanford's Art of Living classes—free to watch online
In "The Art of Living," a first-year Introduction to the Humanities course, three humanities professors from Stanford examine great works of philosophy and literature to explore what it might take to lead a well-lived life.


We Do Ideas
Young people researched the best ideation methods then they encourage other young people to join workshops to solve problems for housing associations and youth clubs.


Craftsmanship & entrepreneurship in Bangladesh
The CMES schools in Bangladesh teach kids craftsmanship and basic business skills. During school, kids can sell their crafts to raise money for their families and school fees. After school, they are equipped to run small businesses in their villages.


Flip It
Traditional classroom learning (1_to_many) is changed from locked in a classroom and placed on the internet. Homework which is normally done by oneself at home is made collaborative in the classroom. What else can be flipped!


Young Makers Program
If we encourage kids to make interesting things then they won't have any problem finding interesting work to do later in life!


Wolfram Alpha
http://www.wolframalpha.com/


Moxie Camp for Female Changemakers
Moxie Camp will be in NYC June 29-July 1, 2012 and empower emerging female leaders to get up on their feet, practice sharing their vision and voice, receive hands on coaching, and get comfortable in their power to create big-time social impact.


Learning By Doing
Learning by Doing heightens exploration, engagement and empathy – blending soft and hard skills.


Make learning enjoyable
How can gamification be used to make learning more fun.


Support soft skills development as well as hard skills, inc the 9 features of human flourishing
Last year I set up an "aspirations agency" called Spark+Mettle to help young people to flourish as they map and launch their optimal careers. Our method mashes Benjamin Franklin's self-improvement programme with the 9 features needed to flourish.


Entrepreneur skills
There is an increasing need to train young people on entrepreneurship and four pillars (creativity; happiness; sustainability; generalist).


Sugata Mitra - self-teaching
Sugata Mitra presenting a new way how we could successfully approach teaching and learning by applying group work and self organizing learning already in a young age.


When did we stop wanting to be an astronaut?
When we were children, we wanted to be astronauts, doctors, cowboys - we had a career perspective. When did we lose this perspective and became undecided? More important: how can we gain the perspective back?


Model City Schools
My daughter went to Garehime and ran her own business in 1st grade. She took that experience and sold crayons to a birthday party provider.