The 21st Century Learn-to-Earn Academy
A 21st Century Workforce Readiness Online
Course
http://lone-eagles.com/21stcentury.htm
Description:
This 21st Century Workforce Readiness
online course integrates digital literacy, broadband entrepreneurship, global
citizenship, and civic engagement through community service, with careful
attention to the unique needs and interests of all participants. Using Web 2.0
social media tools in a mastery learning format, career explorations and
resources will be presented with emphasis on emerging Internet employment and
entrepreneurship opportunities. The Academy introduces financial, business,
media, information, and entrepreneurship literacies.
The Online Course Lessons Web Page is http://lone-eagles.com/workforce101.htm
Registration costs, course timeline, and online
delivery formats will be adapted to best meet the needs
of specific student groups.
Participants will:
Learn about employment opportunities
and self-employment options through the use of Internet
Become a lifelong learner using Web
2.0 tools
Create an online resume, online
store and/or a web business utilizing web tools and social media
Identify local entrepreneurial
success stories and videos to share via your own Youtube Internet TV Channel
Learn peer mentoring skills to teach
others online, anywhere, anytime.
Instructor’s Biography:
The Instructor is
Frank Odasz. As Lone Eagle Consulting, Frank has taught online courses for
citizens and K12 educators internationally for 25 years. Frank’s resume is at
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/frank.htm
Recent Updates: http://lone-eagles.com/expertise.htm
Got Questions? Send an email, or give
Frank a call.
Email: frank@lone-eagles.com,
PH: 406 683 6270.
Eight Four-Hour Lessons:
The following eight lessons will be
modified to best suit unique individual needs
Week 1: Becoming a 21st Century Learner and
Earner
Everyone both
learner and teacher, both consumer and producer, all the time.
1. Getting comfortable with the online course format.
2. Understanding the challenges of the 21st Century
workforce
3. H.O.P.E. How Optimism Promotes Entrepreneurship (Attitudes 101)
4. Developing Self-Directed-Internet-Learning Skills
5. Learn, Earn, and Serve and Practicing Innovation and Creativity,
Week Two: Health and Wellness Literacy
1. Self-assessment of our
lifestyles, info-diets, and beliefs about ourselves, and our
true full
potential
2. Taking
responsibility for personal self-actualization; self-determination developing
for one’s own goals and directions,
3. Identifying
one’s core values, passions, and orientation toward others
4. Review online
health and wellness web sites
Week Three: Pre-employment Basics
1. Softskills – How to make a positive first impression
2. The Job Search, establishing a plan of action
3. Online resumes, job boards, and selling yourself (in a good way)
4. How to be a boss or project manager and dealing with personalities in
the
workplace
Week Four: Information and Media Literacy
1. Information Literacy:
Dealing with accelerating change; information overload,
uncertainty,
megatrends, future shock
2. Searching Skills:
Just-in-time-inquiry-based learning, search engines – visual search
engines,
natural language search engine
3. Media literacy: persuasive media
awareness and creating our own cultural norms:
4. Collaborative
opportunities: with a little help from our friends, social activism trends
in
social media
Week Five: Financial, Business, and Entrepreneurial
Literacies
1. Definitions of these three literacies
2. The changing nature of business, the knowledge economy and innovation
economy
dynamics.
3.
Keeping current in a world of accelerating change.
4. Emerging trends: social entrepreneurship. Green businesses, corporate
social
responsibility, environmental
activism, and community organizing
5. Instructional entrepreneurship: Everyone both learner and teacher,
consumer and
producer
6. Finding and sharing relevant ecommerce and telework success stories and
videos.
Week Six: Social Entrepreneurship and Social
Enterprises:
1. Doing Well by Doing Good. The latest trends in Business.
2. Showcase Your Skills Via Community Service – Making a Difference
3. Citizenship: “Acting Locally, Thinking Globally.”
4. Cultural Expression: Adaptability and Accountability
Week Seven: High Tech Business Startup Basics
1. Copying successful business models
2. Your elevator pitch, value proposition, market positioning and secret
sauce
3. The Art of the Start – Starting a business without a dime
4. Where to get professional assistance
for creating a business plan and getting loans.
Week Eight: Decision Time for Individual Action Plans
for June 2009
1. Peer reviewing of participants action plans for our final month
2. Launching our businesses
3. Promotional options, writing letters
4. Taking Action – Collabor-ACTION strategies