Southwire, a Georgia-based manufacturer, is using work-based learning, a robust support system and a paycheck to give at-risk youth a pathway to employment.
It aims to get 90% of 17-year-olds to remain in education or work-based learning by 2015.
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But participation in work-based learning tended to be higher in the north than the south.
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The Toyota example illustrates more how a competency-based learning system would work.
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As outlined in an Apple white paper, Challenge-Based Learning encourages students and teachers to work together to define problems, propose solutions, and then execute those solutions.
Autonomics are based on self-learning principles and mimic the work of human IT engineers.
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As the NMC report shows, 97% of students in a pilot study found the Challenge-Based Learning approach worthwhile, and 80% reported that their work made a difference in their communities.
One main learning method that supports the learning of such skills and knowledge is group learning or thematic projects, which involves an inquiry-based collaborative work that addresses real-world issues and questions.
The learning curve in putting this tricky new material to work has been climbed by Tokyo-based Toray and Mitsubishi, not by Boeing.
Without rehashing every point, in one example, as software increasingly handles direct instruction, this will create big opportunities for teachers to facilitate rich and rewarding project-based learning experiences for their students to apply their learning into different contexts and gain meaningful work in the so-called 21st-century skills.
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