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

REASONS
Our 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

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

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

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

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

Information
Between 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 Information
Why 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

The
No. 5
No 5.
The
Future
of
Education

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

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

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

Citizenship
2.
Collaboration
Across
Networks and
Leading by
Inﬂuence

Citizenship
3. Agility
and
Adaptability

Citizenship
4. Initiative
and
Entrepreneu-
rialism

Citizenship
5. Eﬀective Oral
and Written
Communicatio
n

Citizenship
6. Accessing
and
Analyzing
Information

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

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