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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
In-Spite of These Changes
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
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
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?
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
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.
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
The Truth is...
"The future's already happened, it's just
unequally distributed."
a quote by science fiction writer William Gibson.
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
No 4.
Data
"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using
no data at all.”
Charles Babbage
Making Sense of Data and InformationAt 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 InformationNew 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
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 WebThe biggest source of secondary data is now the World Wide Web
and you need to be able to
search it.
The
No. 5No 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?
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?
Now that we know the 5 Reasons...........
What can we do
about it?
Skate to where the puck is going to beMake 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
2. Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by Influence
3. Agility and Adaptability
The Seven Survival Skills for Careers, College, and Citizenship
4. Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
5. Effective Oral and Written Communication
6. Accessing and Analyzing Information
7. Curiosity and Imagination
Computer Programming
The program that best covers these
survival skills is
Computer Programming
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 films
Emma 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.
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
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?
Introducing kids to code reveals to them how computers are
really “anything” machines, capable
of doing pretty much anything we
program into them.
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
Everyone Can Learn To Code
Children, Youths,
Educators and Parents