“All About Skills” is on iTunes.
The new podcast, “All About Skills,” is now up on iTunes. You can check it out with the link below or simply by clicking on the icon. All About Skills
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Seventh Graders Conduct Sophisticated PBL Project To Practice Critical Skills
The seventh grade science class at Briggs Middle School in Eugene, Oregon provides an excellent and highly creative example of learning and practicing the critical skills through a project involving their school’s environment. During the winter months from December 2011 until March 2012, the seventh grade students were faced with classroom temperatures in excess of […]
Read More…“Houston, we have a problem!” Critical Skills at their finest!
It was just a short transmission. “Houston, we have a problem,” Captain James A. Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, said calmly. That was an understatement; and it set in motion one of the most dramatic examples of application of the critical skills in history. It was April 1970 and the Apollo 13 space vehicles and […]
Read More…From the Business Perspective . . .
Much has been written and discussed about core competencies and how they are used to define the uniqueness of a company or organization. Core competencies, however, are not critical skills – even though a particular company will have its own set of critical skills that are similar to or even congruent with the definitions provided […]
Read More…A Brave New World
At the middle of the twentieth century at the end of World War II, the United States was near full employment, Europe, Japan and China were devastated, and the US had virtually no competition in the world. Whatever the US made would sell – domestically and internationally. As the decades passed, Europe, Japan and China […]
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