Ridgeline In The News | The 74: Creating Communicators and Critical Thinkers: Soon There Will Be a Test for That

The following is an excerpt from Ridgeline's mention in The 74.

Educators at the Making Waves Academy knew they wanted to teach high school students to be good communicators, problem solvers and critical thinkers to succeed in a rapidly changing world.  

English and math still matter, said Patrick O’Donnell, CEO of the foundation that supports the charter school north of Oakland, California. But having the ability to reason, research and adapt will be crucial as technologies like artificial intelligence change all aspects of life and the workplace.

“If students can really progress in these skills, they’re almost like launch pad skills,” he said.

But there was a big challenge: How do you go about teaching them? How do you even define these so-called “soft” or “durable” skills? While most people have an intuitive sense of what skills like creativity and collaboration are, few have ever broken them down into clear components schools can use to teach students and test whether students have learned them.

Until now.

Read the full article on The 74 website.