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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.

How the world has changed

In-Spite of 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.

InformationToday, 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 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

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 WebThe biggest source of

secondary data is now the World Wide

Web

and you need to be able to

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?

"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?

Now that we know the 5 Reasons...........

What can we do

about it?

Skate to where the puck is going to beWayne 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 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

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

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.

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