**This is the chapter slice "Encouraging Innovation Gr. 3-8+" from the full lesson plan "Learning Skills for Global Competency"** Adaptability and flexibility are essential skills required by all in this global economy. Our real-life project-based exercises and learning strategies will give your students the confidence to stand out from the crowd while utilizing essential dynamic traits. Practice creativity through role-playing scenarios and truly understand that failure is a learning opportunity. All content is presented in a way that fosters a culture of iteration and innovation with an emphasis on the willingness to change and improve. Students will better understand these concepts with the help of technology and media. Get tips and tricks on how you can ask great questions and challenge the rules. Chocked full of standalone reproducible worksheets to give young learners of today all the tools they need to become agile and flexible within the workplace.

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A comprehensive look at the promise and potential of online learning In our digital age, students have dramatically new learning needs and must be prepared for the idea economy of the future. In Getting Smart, well-known global education expert Tom Vander Ark examines the facets of educational innovation in the United States and abroad. Vander Ark makes a convincing case for a blend of online and onsite learning, shares inspiring stories of schools and programs that effectively offer "personal digital learning" opportunities, and discusses what we need to do to remake our schools into "smart schools." Examines the innovation-driven world, discusses how to combine online and onsite learning, and reviews "smart tools" for learning Investigates the lives of learning professionals, outlines the new employment bargain, examines online universities and "smart schools" Makes the case for smart capital, advocates for policies that create better learning, studies smart cultures

This important resource introduces a framework for 21st Century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and thrive in a complex and connected world. 21st Century content includes the basic core subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic-but also emphasizes global awareness, financial/economic literacy, and health issues. The skills fall into three categories: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills. This book is filled with vignettes, international examples, and classroom samples that help illustrate the framework and provide an exciting view of twenty-first century teaching and learning. Explores the three main categories of 21st Century Skills: learning and innovations skills; digital literacy skills; and life and career skills Addresses timely issues such as the rapid advance of technology and increased economic competition Based on a framework developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) The book contains a video with clips of classroom teaching. For more information on the book visit www.21stcenturyskillsbook.com.