• Login to our backchannel at https://todaysmeet.com/softskills2
  
• Type your name and select "Join"
• Type a message and then select "Say"
• Think about what you want your students to be like-- include any thoughts, adjectives, examples, anecdotes or other things that come to mind. Submit as many as you would like.
• If you are a parent-it may also be helpful to frame the question as: What do I want my children to be like?
• Read your peers thoughts in the backchannel- think about which stood out to you and why? Discuss with those around you while we are waiting for others to finish their thoughts.

• Go to student.infuselearning.com (open in a new tab)
• Room ID: 50877
• Part I : Draw a circle around the skill from this list that is most important to student success in the real world.
• Part II: Draw a visual representation of a skill you think should be added to this list

Student names: user01-user50

PW: demo

On this final activity you have the power of choice-- you can either respond via Padlet or Flipgrid or both if you are an overachiever.

1. Padlet: http://padlet.com/wall/softskillsreflect

2. Flipgrid: http://flipgrid.com/#0fcd5f60

Password: soft skills

• http://www.ronritchhart.com/Presentations_files/MelbUni_COT_Intro.pdf

• http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/06_AdditionalResources/makingthinkingvisibleEL.pdf
• A link to a couple more curated links: http://www.visiblethinkingpz.org/VisibleThinking_html_files/06_AdditionalResources/06a_AdditionalResources.html
• Books: Making Thinking Visible , Ron Ritchhart

• http://www.iyi.org/resources//doc/IYI-Issue-Brief-Soft-Skills-March-2012.pdf
  
• http://ncda.org/aws/NCDA/pt/sd/news_article/7010/_PARENT/layout_details_cc/false
  
• (Warning- research heavy but very interesting study regarding skills engineering students need beyond the cognitive ones) http://www.herdsa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/conference/2003/PDF/HERDSA31.pdf
  
• http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/09/why-teaching-mindfulness-benefits-students-learning/
  

• http://askatechteacher.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/how-do-you-grade-tech-i-have-14-ideas/
  
• http://mattbgomez.com/be-brave-the-only-rule-in-my-kindergarten-class/