Preparing students for the careers of tomorrow means teaching them how to teach themselves, and getting them ready to adapt to an ever-changing world. How will you make sure your students are future-ready? Kevin Brookhouser explores the three literacies students need to master for tomorrow's jobs—business skills, video production, and coding—and provides practical ways to help students prepare to be successful in future careers by engaging their current aspirations. Kevin will help you incorporate creative problem solving, entrepreneurial projects, storytelling through video, and practical coding activities into your classroom. Watch and learn how to modify lesson plans for diverse learning needs, and explore the 21st-century skills students need to be adaptable to an unforeseen future.
Learning objectives
Understanding the new literacies
Motivating problem solvers
Inspiring divergent thinking with Limbo
Bringing 20time into the classroom
Guiding creative learners
Finding the right mentor for entrepreneurial kids
Making elevator pitches
Grading entrepreneurial projects
Telling stories through video
Creating screencast video
Capturing video with a smartphone
Editing videos on YouTube
Teaching code
Designing apps
Incorporating coding activities in the classroom
Speaker
Kevin Brookhouser, Teacher, Author of The 20Time Project
He teaches digital citizenship and computer science at York School in Monterey, California and is a Google for Education Certified Innovator and Certified Trainer and a National Association of Independent Schools Teacher of the Future. Kevin serves on the board of the International School of Monterey. He is a learning animal.
