5 Reasons Our Children Are About To Miss Out On The Greatest Opportunity In The World

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).

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


2. Collaboration

Across Networks

and Leading by Influence


3. Agility and

Adaptability


4. Initiative and

Entrepreneu-rialism


5. Effective Oral and Written

Communication


6. Accessing

and Analyzing

Information


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

http://code.org/

http://academy.com/

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

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