UK Future Skills

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UK Future Skills

• Margaret Wallace

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• Less developed countries includes all countries
  in Africa, Asia (excluding Japan), and Latin
  America and the Caribbean, and the regions of
  Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
• More developed countries includes all countries
  in Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand,
  and Japan.

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World Population Distribution by Region,
18002050
Population Reference Bureau. US
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Rise of the Tiger Economies

• China overtakes US 2020
• gt entire EU
• Overtook UK 2005

• India overtakes UK 2022
• US 2050

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UK EMPLOYEES IN THE FUTURE (2010)

• 20 Workforce White, Able and Under 45 year old
  Male
• 20 Will be Mothers (50 as
  Single Parents)
• 10 Working Population Ethnic Minorities

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UK EMPLOYEES IN THE FUTURE (2010)

• Increasing Support Rise of the
  100 Year Old People
• Increased Collaboration, Flexibility, Creativity
• womenomics Zurich Study
• Global and UK Skills

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Challenges

• Economically Inactive Young People
• Behaviour Management
• Britains children unhappiest in the Wests 21
  industrialised countries. Unicef
• Drink the most, smoke more, have more sex than
  their peers
• Rate their health as the poorest, dislike school
  more and are among the least satisfied with life.
  
• Retention and Completion
• UK Skills Gap
• National and Global Competition

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The Challenges for Educators

• Digital Generation
• Marc Prensky
• Digital Natives v Digital Immigrants

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Technological Sophiscation of Audience

• Language and Tools
• Skype
• iPhone
• PS3
• Facebook
• Sims
• MySpace
• Blogging
• Second Life
• Atlantis Quest

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Gaming Technology and Workforce Development

• Games Workforce Army US
• St Columbas Primary, Dundee
• brain training
• Dramatic improvements in maths, concentration
  and how they get on with each other

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Course structure
To obtain the licence, candidates must complete 8
modules (4 compulsory and 4 optional from a list
of approved modules)
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EPICT Facilitator Community
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My Predictions

• Mobile Technologies
• Virtual Reality and Gaming
• Online Learning
• Increased Facilitation of Learning
• Campus Culture Americana
• Changing Face of ICT Integration
• Surface

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My Predictions

• Mobile Technologies
• Virtual Reality and Gaming
• Online Learning
• Increased Facilitation of Learning
• Campus Culture Americana
• Changing Face of ICT Integration
• Surface

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My Predictions

• Mobile Technologies
• Virtual Reality and Gaming
• Online Learning
• Increased Facilitation of Learning
• Campus Culture Americana
• Changing Face of ICT Integration
• Surface

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Future Careers UK
"It is not the strongest of the species that
survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one
most responsive to change." Charles Darwin
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UK Future Skills

• Margaret Wallace
• Hillington Park Innovation
• Centre
• 0141 5856379
• mwallace_at_epict.co.uk