Digital & Future Skills in Education

All about digital, skills & future excitement. Coral Grainger is currently working with Oldham College on the creation of the UK's first industry led Career College, specialising in Creativity, Digital & Technology. This is a collection of news and inspiration for the digital dynamos of the future, and all those involved in their education.

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The state of women in technology: 15 data points you should know

There's a massive gender gap in the technology industry, and it's important to be aware of the facts. Here are 15 key statistics on the state of women in tech.

A little old, but fascinating stats. #Women #Tech #Gender #Economy

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BETT 2014: @MissPhilbin presenting on 10 Ways to Use YouTube for EDU

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McKinsey: Developing Talent for Large IT projects

Companies can burn significant energy trying to cultivate and develop skills that could be outsourced. Based on our research and experience, however, there are three roles that are vital to the success of any IT program and are most critical to retain in-house: IT program manager, business change leader, and lead IT architect.

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The outcome is that students interact with each other, external resources, digital materials and content, more than they do with the teacher. They learn to build their own personal communities of learning, and rely more on their own skills and abilities than they do on those of the teacher or content expert. They learn from their own mistakes and express themselves more creatively through their own endeavours.

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Americans need to learn how to discover. Being dumb in the existing educational system is bad enough. Failing to create a new way of learning adapted to contemporary circumstances might be a national disaster. The good news is, some people are working on it.

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(via BBC Radio 4 - The Educators, Salman Khan) An excellent series from Radio4 - this explores beyond the 'flipped classroom' - good to hear what secondary school students find use of Khan Academy by their teacher.

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(via Budding artist's work appears in Grayson Perry exhibition - Manchester Evening News)

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The Digital and Creative Career College brings together existing Oldham College courses in subjects such as media, music technology, software development, art and design, games design and fashion and textiles under one umbrella. It has around 600 students aged from 16 this year, but will take 14-year-olds from September, 2015, who will do a combination of academic and vocational courses. The students will be taught in the college’s existing facilities before moving to a new £9 million building next year.

Oldham News | News Headlines | Pioneer colleges (almost) up and running - Chronicle Online

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Primary school teacher Niomi Roberts discusses teaching coding for the first time. Roberts says that the curriculum is "moving in the right direction" with many teachers encountering a considerable amount of change.

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To support primary and secondary schools across the UK, and to coincide with the new computing curriculum in England, BBC Learning has introduced a new range of media-rich computer science content through Bitesize. These include curriculum-mapped guides using animation, graphics, video and interactive games

BBC - BBC unveils new computing and coding content for children - Media centre

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oin the Young Fab Academy and learn everything about the very latest digital fabrication technology. We've designed a week of challenges, created specifically for 11-14 year old, where you'll use state-of-the-art equipment like 3D printers and laser cutters to design and build fantastic products from remote-controlled robots and custom speaker systems to mini-keyboards. Learn how to design in 2D and 3D, how to build electronic circuits and much more in this fabulously fun-filled week.

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Talent > Development > Commercialisation "Channelling Talent reveals the role of social networks in recognising and rewarding talent in the music industry. " Read the RSA's recommendations at www.thersa.org/channellingtalent

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Oldham College, a further beneficiary and the UK’s first Digital and Creative Career College, was today awarded £100,000 towards a Digital Skills Centre within the new Career College.

Education fund 'champions' vocational projects - Telegraph

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It is crucial that our curriculum responds to the demands of the digital economy, says Andrew Harrison, vice-principal of Oldham College

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“I felt like age shouldn’t hold me back as long as I can code,” said Anderson, now 15 and a soon-to-be sophomore at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Cañada, California, who taught himself several programming languages and built apps based on online tutorials.

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"Why would we treat all our students ... as if they all had the same technology needs? ... To have a one-device-fits-all approach does not make sense."

LAUSD shifts gears on technology for students - Los Angeles Times