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Breakout Session 3
EMERGECRITICAL CAREER
SKILLSW I TH
Lauren MurphyCengage Learning
Ken BaldaufFlorida State University
the inside story
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Malcolm Gladwell defines a TIPPING POINT as "the moment of critical mass,
the threshold, the boiling point.”
Education is at the tipping point.
SHIFTPARADIGMThomas Kuhn defines PARADIGM SHIFT as a
change in the basic assumptions, or paradigms, within the ruling theory of
science.
Our education paradigm is shifting.
TIP and SHIFTor become IRRELEVANT
to students.
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The first completely online solution for teaching Computer Fluency
emergewithComputers
relevantcontent
issues
skills
concepts
relevantcontent
lots ofskills
chunkedcontent
direct and to the point bountifulmedia
lots of photos from news and industry
relevance!timely YouTube videos
related news via RSS feed, updated each week!
wiki-style links
Connect concepts and issues
search
hierarchicalorganization
links out
video tutorialsoverviewsthatengage
why should I learn this?
sequence ofshort videos
2 – 6 minutes
video tutorialsindividualized
learningProgress at your
own preferred rate of speed
view in window or full screen
closed captioning and script provide accessible
access
Just like you’d teach it, one-on-one
Friendly
Applications build a complete project
Project-Based
Replaces need for print manual
Engaging
approach
Working with Graphics
Microsoft Officecommon skills taught first
Word
Body Balance Business Plan
Document Formatting
Academic Publishing Tools
Integration with Excel
taught from case study perspective
Madison Artists Gallery
Cells & Cell Data
Formulas
Functions
Formatting
Spreadsheet Graphics
Integration with PowerPoint
Excel Madison Artists Gallery
Mission
Street Inn
Slides & Text
Using Graphic Objects
Integration with
Excel
Slide Shows
Presenting &
Publishing
PowerPointMission Street Inn
Wild West Tours
Access Wild West Tours
Outlook
beyond the basics
Auto-graded projects
Teach Emerge Site- http://www.teachemerge.com
Each chapter-related page includes the following:
– overview of chapter content– social media activities– flipped classroom activities– project-based learning activities– games– topic-related news stories– chapter videos
New Emerge web site designed to simplify and reduce prep time, and revitalize the course with exciting new teaching options:
