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REASONSOur Children Are About To
Miss Out On The Greatest
Opportunity In The World
How the world has changed
It's hard to believe how much the
world has transformed in the past decade but
our handy info graphic tells the
whole story
Charlie Jane Anders
So what's changed?
Technology has gotten
unimaginably smaller and better — just look at the
differences between an iMac
in 2000 and an iPhone in 2010.
The world's population has
grown, and for the first time more
people live in cities than in rural areas. China's electricity consumption has quadrupled. And
the costs of technology are becoming more apparent than
before. But really, the data speaks
for itself.
Charlie Jane Anders
How the world has changed
In-Spite of These Changes These Changes
Did you know..........
Less than 1% of our
population can fully utilize
today’s technology.
*National Bureau of Statistics
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Handling Change
For us to take advantage of
these changes, we need to know
what the future holds
FUTURE TRENDS
THE FUTURE OF
No 1.
What is Technology?
Paul Zane Pilzer defines
technology as a better method of doing something you
already do more efficiently.
We tend to think of technology as a new
computer, a new semiconductor, something we don't
understand.
What is Technology?
If you drive to work and it takes you 30 minutes,
and there's a better way of getting there in 25
minutes, that's better technology. In the
twentieth and the current century, the personal
computer and the Internet have been the greatest drivers to progress and
economy -
Paul Zane Pilzer
The Computer
“The Computer is the only product
since the beginning of time that the
maker or designer cannot determine or limit what it can
be used for.”
Dr. Tunde ADEGBOLA
The Future of the Computer & The Internet
“One hundred years ago, people
were faced with the choice of learning to
read or remaining illiterate laborers who
would be left behind as have-nots in a rapidly modernizing world.
Yishan Wong
The Future of the Computer & The Internet
In the coming century,
being able to command a world
that will be thoroughly
computerized will set apart those who can
live successfully in the future from those who will be utterly
left behind.“
Yishan Wong
Some Facts
"Even with the *105million penetration of mobile phones with
*less than 10% Smartphone and even less than 1% of our population
can utilize these technologies, neither do we have local apps relevant and beneficial to this
population "*National Bureau of Statistics
In Conclusion
Technology changes so fast that what used to change in 60
years now changes in 6
years.
Paul Zane Pilzer
In Conclusion
So what we see is the
speed with which technology changes has
accelerated so fast that technology defines our
resources, defines our wealth and
determines how wealthy we would
be.
Paul Zane Pilzer
No.2The Future of
No 2.
Why?
"The recession of 2008 wiped out the
credit and asset bubbles that had
been fueling over-consumption and overproduction
around the world".
Ken Robinson
Why?
"As the recession blew like a hurricane
through the old industrialized
economies it left a trail of failed
businesses, oceans of debt and deep pools of structural Unemployment".
Ken Robinson
Why?
Among the worst affected are young people. As I write this, global
levels of unemployment among
young people, aged from 15 to 24, are the highest on
record. Ken Robinson
Unemployment
“Unemployment, while it is painful for the workers who are temporarily
displaced, is a necessary and positive sign that the economy is
growing".
Paul Zane Pilzer
What about Unemployment?
"In essence, we are disengaging the
work force from less productive
businesses to be retrained for work in
newer and more productive ones".
Paul Zane Pilzer
Today's Unemployment is a Sign of Things to Come
“At the same time, this will be a period of highly selective prosperity; that is,
only certain people, industries and economies will
prosper".
Paul Zane Pilzer
Today's Unemployment is a Sign of Things to Come
This is because the rate of change has
become so fast, only those who are quickest
to adapt to new technologies and the
new markets they represent will be in a
position to take advantage of this
growth”.
Paul Zane Pilzer
Consider this...
About ten years ago there were no social networks.
Ten years before that we didn't have the Web.
Consider this...
If you work in the web programming, online marketing, or mobile phone
industries…
… your job did not exist twenty years ago.
Consider this...
Who knows what jobs will exist twenty years from now? The people out of work today will
soon find jobs again.
But the work won't be the same.
One Opportunity
“At a time when people are saying "I want a good job - I got out of college and I couldn't find one," every single year in America there is a standing
demand for 120,000 people who are training in computer science”.
President Bill Clinton
No.3
The Future
of
Language & Literacy: The last 6 inches of the divide
“Over the past few years, the Internet has rapidly
become part of the daily lives of most people in the
first world. This trend in easy access to unlimited information resources for first world users mirrors
the growing 'central-peripheral divide' in the
developing world”:
Andie Miller
Language & Literacy: The last 6 inches of the divide
“The concentration of wealth in the major urban
centers and the increasing marginalization of people in
the peri-urban and rural areas. The result of both
trends is that the majority of the world's population,
particularly on the African continent, has limited
access to most information resources”.
Andie Miller
The Truth is...
"The future's already happened, it's just
unequally distributed."
a quote by science fiction writer William Gibson.
The Truth is...
I don't think Gibson, who coined the term
"cyberspace" in his 1984 novel Neuromancer - a
book which he wrote on a manual typewriter - ever dreamt what this word would come to mean in
contemporary society, and just how everyday its
usage would become in less than 20 years”.
The Truth is...
“Sadly it remains every day, however, only to a 'select' few.
A small minority of people on the
planet, who have access to the
technology, and the skill to use it, come to be known as the
"digerati".
The Truth is...
“The Computer needs to speak our language and
vice versa. Until technology is
applicable in our local language and appropriate applications that allow our huge population to benefit from it we would continue to look at technology as
foreign and reserved for a selected few”.
Dr Adegbola
Bridging the divide
" if technology is shaping the ways that we practice literacy in
today's world, it is certainly also the case that literacy is acting as a gatekeeper for accessing and using
technology"
M Warschauer
Bridging the divide
"The real threat of a digital divide in the US and the world
is not that some people will have computers and some won't, but that they will be
enabled to use them in entirely different ways, with one group able to muster a wide range of semiotic tools and resources to persuade, argue, analyze,
critique and interpret, and another group, lacking these semiotics skills, limited to pre-
packaged choices".
(Castells, 1996/2000; Warschauer, 1999).
No 4.
Information
Today, real life means mobile. We consume more media on
smartphones than computers and tablets
combined. We spend 82 percent of our mobile media time in apps, and Facebook accounts for 23 percent of that in-app time. In short: apps are the mobile web, and Facebook is the most
used app in the world
Jason Stein
InformationBetween conversion pixels and database partnerships,
companies can begin to track the purchases made online and offline by people who saw or engaged with
their native ads.
This gives incredible access to information and data
today we never had available in history before
now.
Jason Stein
Data
"Errors using inadequate data are much less than
those using no data at all.”
Charles Babbage
Making Sense of Data and
Information
At the heart of any management system you need good decisions and good information. In his
book on Leadership, Rudy Guiliani, ex-mayor of New
York tells how timely access to accurate
information helped improve decision making in New York City’s fight against
crime.
Elearn
Making Sense of Data and
Information
New media (particularly electronic media) have made
it possible to communicate information faster and more directly and through many
more channels. From e-mail to pagers and mobile
phones, PDA’s, wikis and Intranets, the options to
present information through different channels and
formats is now immense.
Elearn
Making Sense of Data and Information
With the explosion of electronic information,
information has become more readily available and
far exceeds that which most organization or its
people can handle. Instead of information being
pushed to the users, the new rule is to expect the users to pull information
from the system when they need it
Elearn
Making Sense of Data and InformationWhy are some people better
than others at problem solving and decision making? One
important characteristic that differentiates effective
decision makers is their ability to think critically. Managers who are critical thinkers use information , both qualitative
and quantitative, to help arrive at and to present the most reasonable and justifiable position that is possible.
Elearn
Making Sense of Data and Information
Ultimately the tremendous amount of
information that is generated is only useful if it can be applied to
create knowledge within the organization. Building and managing
knowledge is one of the greatest challenges that faces organization in the twenty first
Century.
Elearn
World Wide Web
The biggest source of secondary data is now the World
Wide Web
and you need to be
able to search it.
The
No. 5 No 5.
The Future
of Education
What is missing?
“Our schools haven’t
changed; the
world has. And so our schools
are failing”.
Tony Wagner
Think about it
“Children, young children, starting
elementary school this year will be retiring
'round about 2070, if they ever do retire.
Think about that. 2070. Nobody has the
faintest idea what the world will look like in
2015, or 2020, let alone 2070".
Sir Ken Robinson
What is missing?
"And yet those of us who work in education have the responsibility to enable the students for whom we're
responsible to live lives with meaning and purpose as they progress through the twenty-first century and beyond it. So there's a genuine revolution.
Now every country in the world is trying to grapple with
it".
Sir Ken Robinson
What is missing?
In today‘s highly competitive global
knowledge economy, all students need new skills for college, careers, and citizenship. The
failure to give all students these new skills leaves today‘s youth and our country at an
alarming competitive disadvantage.
What is missing?
“The greatest challenge is creativity in Africa which
comes out of an incomplete
education.
We are “Certified but not Educated”
We are “Certified but not Educated” It is the
attitude of chasing after certificates and not an
education that has become the bane of our society. The problem in the society today
is that skill is yet to be developed in people. We are yet to come to a place
where we truly use our education to create wealth”.
Francis Madojemu
Where Do We Go From Here?Go From Here?
Now that we know the 5 Reasons...........
What can we
do about
it?
Skate to where the puck is going to be
Wayne Gretzky was once asked why he is such a good player.
His reply?
“I skate to where the
puck is going to be, not
where it has been.”
Jeffrey Monaghan
Skate to where the puck is going to be
Make sure your company is not simply chasing where other
companies in your industry have been.
The true ability of a successful
company is to skate to where the industry is going to be.
Jeffrey Monaghan
The Seven Survival Skills for Careers,
College, and Citizenship
The Seven Survival Skills for Careers, College, and Citizenship
1. Critical Thinking
and Problem-Solving
The Seven Survival Skills for Careers, College, and Citizenship
2. Collaboration
Across Networks
and Leading by Influence
The Seven Survival Skills for Careers, College, and Citizenship
3. Agility and
Adaptability
The Seven Survival Skills for Careers, College, and Citizenship
4. Initiative and
Entrepreneu-rialism
The Seven Survival Skills for Careers, College, and Citizenship
5. Effective Oral and Written
Communication
The Seven Survival Skills for Careers, College, and Citizenship
6. Accessing
and Analyzing
Information
The Seven Survival Skills for Careers, College, and Citizenship
7. Curiosity
and Imaginatio
n
Computer Programming
The program that best covers these
survival skills is
Computer Programmi
ng
What Is Coding?
The word coding is a slang term for computer
programming, used because programming basically means writing
source code.Emma
Mulqueeny
What Is Coding?
These actions are understood by the computer in what is known as binary code, that
lovely series of ones and zeros loved by Hollywood
futuristic filmsEmma
Mulqueeny
Critical
“We consider it critical that students be able to read and write and
understand math, biology, chemistry and physics. To be a well-educated
citizen in today’s computing-intensive world, students must have
a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of computing as well.“Chris Stephenson
Critical
“Whether our children want to become farmers, doctors,
teachers, or entrepreneurs, it’ll be easier for them to achieve
their dreams in the digital age if they have some background in
computer science. We need our children to learn 21st
century skills for a 21st century world, and coding teaches
them the creativity and problem-solving skills that are
necessary for success.“
John Thune
Our
Give every child in our community the chance to learn to code. It is our aim to equip the next generation with
this essential skill to learn.
Consider This
“I think everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer because it teaches you
how to think.”
Steve Jobs
How?
1. We believe and think every individual, parent, kids; youth should be encouraged to start to learn to Code no matter what they want to
do or are already doing in life.
This will teach them to think and solve problems.
How?
2.Campaign for, encourage and assist schools and
parents to introduce coding and computer programing
into their curriculum.
Do you know?
“The most popular class at Harvard today is Intro to Computer Programming, because computers
are helping in almost every other field of study and research - to search for a cure for cancer, to
understand the origins of ancient languages, etc. We need more schools to offer computer
programming; it's a skill that will empower the next generation in almost any field. Learning to code is
easy, fun, and a good thing to learn young.
Harry Lewis
How?
3. To provide a melting point for leading hardware and software providers and developers as well
programers and programing firms to meet and work together and to
come up with relevant applications for our local community and language
Consider This
"The point is that the world does not need more
code for its own sake, but better
and more universal thinking
about code"
Jeff Atwood
Why Code?
Just the attempt to try to learn
JavaScript, as Codeacademy
starts students out with, is a useful and
eye-opening exercise, no matter what you do in life.
Jeff Atwood
Why Code?
“Here we are, 2013, we ALL depend on technology to communicate, to bank, and none of us know how to read and
write code. It's important for these kids, right now, starting at 8 years old, to read
and write code
will.i.am
Why Code?
Kids spend an increasing portion
of their lives interacting with
and through screens about
which they know little or nothing.
Why Code?
The more they do so, the more they
accept the values of Facebook, Google,
or iTunes as pre-existing conditions of the universe. Instead
of opening their minds, technology shuts them down.
Why Code?
Compounding all this, the few places most young people have
available to learn about computers tend to
teach them how to use and conform to existing
software applications rather than how to
make their own.
Why Code?
Introducing kids to code reveals to
them how computers are really “anything”
machines, capable of doing
pretty much anything we program into
them.
Why Code?
"It gives them the ability both to read and to
write in the foundational languages of the digital age and,
in doing so, fundamentally
transforms their perspective from that
of user to maker, consumer to creative”.
Douglas Rushkoff,
Strategic Partnership
In strategic partnership with leading hardware and software providers and developers as well as
programming firms we would be using simple coding curriculums from
code.org, code academy.com and
scratch.mit.edu just to mention a few to
develop appropriate and relevant courses and programs
The Scratch Program
Scratch is a programming language
that makes it easy to create your own
interactive stories, animations, games,
music, and art -- and share your creations
on the web.
The Scratch Program
As young people create and share
Scratch projects, they learn important
mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to
think creatively, reason systematically,
and work collaboratively.
Everyone Can Learn To Code
Children,
Youths,
Educators and Parents