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Teachers are always on the lookout for new inspiration and new ideas, but who’s got time to plow through the zillions of resources on the internet? Well, good news! We’ve done the research for you and here are 30 of our top sources for free teacher resources including lesson plans and activities created by fellow professional educators (marked with an asterisk). Happy huntin

Via John Evans

@EdDiveRoger

Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)

Here’s a not-so-bold prediction: there’s a decent chance you’ll be searching for someone with cloud computing skills in the near future.

No, that's not based on your recruiting horoscope—it’s the fact that cloud computing will be the single most in-demand hard skill in 2019, according to LinkedIn’s latest research. Using a LinkedIn data, we were able to identify both the soft and hard skills companies are working hardest to fill right now. But before we dive into the results, let's recap the meaning of hard skills vs soft skills.

Via Edumorfosis

It turns out that professionals are keenly interested in learning new skills (which makes us deliriously happy). And learning tends to spike in January, as people start the year focused on building new habits. But here’s the challenge: there are at least 50,000 professional skills in the world, according to LinkedIn data. 50,000!

If you’re like us, you probably have time to learn a few skills this month. That begs the question: of those 50,000 skills you could potentially learn, which should you learn today to help you stand out all year? To find out, we used exclusive LinkedIn data to determine the skills companies need most in 2019. These are the skills your boss and your boss’s boss find most valuable, but have a hard time finding – and the skills that’ll most help you better serve your clients and customers.

Via Edumorfosis

The next two decades promise a full-scale revolution in our working lives. Before we look into the next 20 years, let’s take a quick look at the present – and something once considered paradoxical. We’re already living in an age of a lot of robots – and a lot of jobs. As the number of robots at work has reached record levels, it’s worth noting that in 2018 the global unemployment level fell to 5.2%, according to a report last month – the lowest level in 38 years. In other words, high tech and high employment don’t have to be mutually exclusive. We’re living the proof of that today. Given this synchronicity between employment and tech, I believe there are reasons to be hopeful that jobs will become more accessible, more flexible and more liberating over the next two decades. Here are five significant changes I foresee, as I previously highlighted for the World Economic Forum:
Via Edumorfosis

We asked 20 edtech executives to look into their crystal balls and share their edtech predictions for 2019.

Via EDTECH@UTRGV

By: Hans Appel

Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)

My oldest son, a junior at an elite university in California, went to a traditional college prep high school where he claims he was imminently prepared for post-secondary studies but did little to improve his chances of entering the workforce.

My youngest son, a senior at New Technology High School in Napa, flips that script, saying he is imminently prepared for the workforce but worries constantly if he will be accepted into a good university.

That sample size is too small to make generalizations about Gen Z learners. Dell Technologies has given us a lot more data to chew on in their recently released report, Gen Z: The Future Has Arrived.

Via Edumorfosis

Two things will shape upskilling in the 21st century.

1. Millennials taking over the workplace.
2. Faster adoption of new technology.

A young population and faster adoption of new technology mean employees need to upskill quickly. Jobs which are the highest paying today didn’t even exist 7-10 years ago. The speed at which industry is changing means employees who do not upskill quickly will see stagnation in their careers. This is the biggest threat to the new generation.

Via Edumorfosis

Reach digital citizenship authentically so it's not just another abstract idea that becomes real to students only when they run into problems down the road.

Via EDTECH@UTRGV

"Every week I include a few design resources and useful tools in my Learning, Design, and Technology newsletter. This is a collection of all them from 2018. I hope you find something to help you do whatever you’re doing at least a little bit better ..."

Via Leona Ungerer

Jack Ma, co-founder of Alibaba, said, “if we do not change the way we teach, thirty years from now we'll be in big trouble.”

Coming from a nation whose inherent belief in upskilling its vast population of blue-collar workers will be integral to the country’s growth - and whose investment in education remains virtually unparalleled - Ma has a point.

We’re supposedly raising the next generation of innovators and inventors, yet the way we teach does not always cultivate those skills. Disruption is occurring at speed and is pervasive, but the educational methods and tools used to equip the problem solvers of tomorrow look backward, not forward.

Via Edumorfosis

All signs indicate that eLearning is well positioned to have another strong year in 2019. If the future of eLearning once appeared to rest on virtual reality, however, other new technologies, including artificial intelligence and blockchain, now seem most likely to transform the sector in the near future. It also seems likely that over the coming year, the eLearning sector will see major players, especially on the LMS market, continue to fight for market dominance.

Via Edumorfosis

The future of work is rapidly changing. With the rise of machines and automation, we need to empower our workforces with 21st-century skills to help them remain employable. But how do we empower billions of people who may have never set foot inside a classroom? How do we give them universal access to education and enable them to be future-ready?

One of the biggest challenges we are facing globally today is how to close the rapidly growing skills gap. Experts from McKinsey and PWC estimate that between 30-50% of jobs will become the preserve of robots and AI in the next decade.

If this is true, then we need to ask: what differentiates us from robots? What are our unique qualities as humans? And how do we leverage our strengths to remain relevant at scale?