edmagineer.com Career Simulations and the power of story centered career themed project based learning online.

The piece is titled Beyond Home Ec: Vocational Programs Are a Good Investment, and it cleanly, clearly, and honestly addresses both the betrayal of the recent American college graduate and the state of the American secondary and post-secondary education system.

“Although Personal Finance as a subject is more practical than most subjects students take in school, it is still a struggle to get students engaged in the subject matter…. This holistic approach really works.”

You never know what you are communicating in the workplace. We all know that communication is an important part of work life. We communicate with co-workers and customers throughout the day. What we say and how we say it can tell others a great deal about us. It can also say things that we don’t want people to know or think about us.

For those of us who spend our waking hours trying to figure out how to engage digital natives, a recent report from Dan Willingham, clinical psychologist, poses a great question:: How important ARE canonical “learning styles” to actual learning? What does this mean for CTE?