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The Digital Opportunity forSwansea
Professor Tom CrickSwansea University
http://proftomcrick.com
21 February 2019
@ProfTomCrick (@SwanseaUni) Swansea Skills Partnership 21 February 2019 1 / 29
Croeso/Welcome
What Are We Trying To Do?
Disaggregating “digital {in,and,for} education”:
Computer science education;Cross-curricular digital competencies;Effective digital pedagogies;Digital infrastructure and delivery;Digital culture: students, staff,...society?Public (mis)understanding of digital and tech;Wider digital policy: economy, innovation, national infrastructure,sustainability, raising aspirations, future generations...
@ProfTomCrick (@SwanseaUni) Swansea Skills Partnership 21 February 2019 8 / 29
Croeso/Welcome
What Are We Trying To Do?
Disaggregating “digital {in,and,for} education”:
Computer science education;Cross-curricular digital competencies;Effective digital pedagogies;Digital infrastructure and delivery;Digital culture: students, staff,...society?Public (mis)understanding of digital and tech;Wider digital policy: economy, innovation, national infrastructure,sustainability, raising aspirations, future generations...
@ProfTomCrick (@SwanseaUni) Swansea Skills Partnership 21 February 2019 8 / 29
Croeso/Welcome
What Are We Trying To Do?
Disaggregating “digital {in,and,for} education”:Computer science education;Cross-curricular digital competencies;
Effective digital pedagogies;Digital infrastructure and delivery;Digital culture: students, staff,...society?Public (mis)understanding of digital and tech;Wider digital policy: economy, innovation, national infrastructure,sustainability, raising aspirations, future generations...
@ProfTomCrick (@SwanseaUni) Swansea Skills Partnership 21 February 2019 8 / 29
Croeso/Welcome
What Are We Trying To Do?
Disaggregating “digital {in,and,for} education”:Computer science education;Cross-curricular digital competencies;Effective digital pedagogies;Digital infrastructure and delivery;
Digital culture: students, staff,...society?Public (mis)understanding of digital and tech;Wider digital policy: economy, innovation, national infrastructure,sustainability, raising aspirations, future generations...
@ProfTomCrick (@SwanseaUni) Swansea Skills Partnership 21 February 2019 8 / 29
Croeso/Welcome
What Are We Trying To Do?
Disaggregating “digital {in,and,for} education”:Computer science education;Cross-curricular digital competencies;Effective digital pedagogies;Digital infrastructure and delivery;Digital culture: students, staff,...society?Public (mis)understanding of digital and tech;Wider digital policy: economy, innovation, national infrastructure,sustainability, raising aspirations, future generations...
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Digital Skills & Policy
The Educational Challenge
What does being“digitally competent” mean for a
4/8/12/16 year old?
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Digital Skills & Policy
The Societal Challenge
What does being“digitally competent” mean for a
20/40/60/80 year old?
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Digital Skills & Policy
Program or Be Programmed?
“For the majority, the world of software is a built worldthat, like a city, helps us to organise and consume. But ithas been built by others. For the minority, software ismerely a curtain that can be pulled aside to reveal a wildworld of confusion, trial and error, but also of virtuallyunlimited creative and commercial potential. It is time forBritish schoolchildren to be granted access to this world.”
The Times (November 2012)
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Digital Skills & Policy
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Digital Skills & Policy
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Digital Skills & Policy
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The Opportunity for Swansea
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The Opportunity for Swansea
http://www.technocamps.com
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The Opportunity for Swansea
A Call To Arms
Need to change perceptions (teachers, parents, public);
Making digital/STEM as a part of our society/culture?
Future citizens: recognising the wider social/cultural/economicimperatives.
Reform as a lever: roadmap for new curriculum, quals, routes;
Investment in practitioners, resources and infrastructure;
Communities and partnerships: schools, FE, HE (civic mission);
Developing interdisciplinary STE(A)M skills for Wales;
Drivers: City Deal+projects, anchor companies, emerging economy;
Mission-led Innovation
Make Swansea the most “digitally-capable” region in Wales/UK?
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The Opportunity for Swansea
A Call To Arms
Need to change perceptions (teachers, parents, public);
Making digital/STEM as a part of our society/culture?
Future citizens: recognising the wider social/cultural/economicimperatives.
Reform as a lever: roadmap for new curriculum, quals, routes;
Investment in practitioners, resources and infrastructure;
Communities and partnerships: schools, FE, HE (civic mission);
Developing interdisciplinary STE(A)M skills for Wales;
Drivers: City Deal+projects, anchor companies, emerging economy;
Mission-led Innovation
Make Swansea the most “digitally-capable” region in Wales/UK?
@ProfTomCrick (@SwanseaUni) Swansea Skills Partnership 21 February 2019 27 / 29
The Opportunity for Swansea
A Call To Arms
Need to change perceptions (teachers, parents, public);
Making digital/STEM as a part of our society/culture?
Future citizens: recognising the wider social/cultural/economicimperatives.
Reform as a lever: roadmap for new curriculum, quals, routes;
Investment in practitioners, resources and infrastructure;
Communities and partnerships: schools, FE, HE (civic mission);
Developing interdisciplinary STE(A)M skills for Wales;
Drivers: City Deal+projects, anchor companies, emerging economy;
Mission-led Innovation
Make Swansea the most “digitally-capable” region in Wales/UK?
@ProfTomCrick (@SwanseaUni) Swansea Skills Partnership 21 February 2019 27 / 29
The Opportunity for Swansea
A Call To Arms
Need to change perceptions (teachers, parents, public);
Making digital/STEM as a part of our society/culture?
Future citizens: recognising the wider social/cultural/economicimperatives.
Reform as a lever: roadmap for new curriculum, quals, routes;
Investment in practitioners, resources and infrastructure;
Communities and partnerships: schools, FE, HE (civic mission);
Developing interdisciplinary STE(A)M skills for Wales;
Drivers: City Deal+projects, anchor companies, emerging economy;
Mission-led Innovation
Make Swansea the most “digitally-capable” region in Wales/UK?
@ProfTomCrick (@SwanseaUni) Swansea Skills Partnership 21 February 2019 27 / 29
The Opportunity for Swansea
A Call To Arms
Need to change perceptions (teachers, parents, public);
Making digital/STEM as a part of our society/culture?
Future citizens: recognising the wider social/cultural/economicimperatives.
Reform as a lever: roadmap for new curriculum, quals, routes;
Investment in practitioners, resources and infrastructure;
Communities and partnerships: schools, FE, HE (civic mission);
Developing interdisciplinary STE(A)M skills for Wales;
Drivers: City Deal+projects, anchor companies, emerging economy;
Mission-led Innovation
Make Swansea the most “digitally-capable” region in Wales/UK?
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Next Steps
Next Steps?
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