FELTAG to ETAG - Time for Some NEET Ideas (ALT-C 2014 #altc)

Martin Hamilton@[email protected] http://martinh.net

FELTAG to ETAG:Time for SomeNEET IdeasALT-C #altneetSeptember 2014



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1. The NEET phenomenon

2. The digital skills crisis

3. Responses

4. ETAG in a nutshell

5. Your NEET ideas

Time for Some NEET Ideas


1. The NEET Phenomenon


1. The NEET Phenomenon

Lost in Transition, the Work Foundation's 2011 report on the NEET phenomenon - http://goo.gl/axQHyK

“In 2011 nearly a third of young people classified as NEET had qualifications at A-Level or above, a third left school with GCSE grades A-C, and one in six had achieved other qualifications such as NVQs.

Nearly a third had personal situations that made it difficult for them to engage with conventional education programmes, such as disabilities or responsibilities as carers for family members.”

http://goo.gl/axQHyK




Research & Consultation:

Next Gen report from NESTA in 2011: http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/next-gen

(Ian Livingstone et al)

“The education system (including universities and FE colleges) doesn’t provide the skills that the UK video games and visual effects industries need.

Computer science should be on the national curriculum alongside maths and physics; a GCSE in computer science should be introduced in all schools.”

2. The Digital Skills Crisis

http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/next-gen

http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/next-gen



UK Digital Skills Task Force in 2014Digital Skills for Tomorrow’s World report - http://www.ukdigitalskills.com

(Maggie Philbin et al)

“As of March 2014 there were still 975,000 young people in the UK who were not in education, employment or training, despite Microsoft reporting that there were 100,000 unfilled vacancies unfilled in partner companies across the UK last year.”


http://www.ukdigitalskills.com/

http://www.ukdigitalskills.com/



Further Education Learning Technology Action Group (FELTAG) report – http://feltag.org.uk

“Employers’ role in the development and delivery of FE curricula. Identify to what extent digital technology can help get greater engagement of employers in the design and delivery of learning.

An innovation fund should support leading-edge apprenticeships, traineeships and internships that use a high degree of digital technology in their delivery”


http://feltag.org.uk/


Community responses:

Code Club - https://www.codeclub.org.uk

TeenTech - http://www.teentech.com

Young Rewired State - https://youngrewiredstate.org

Government responses:

Innovate UK - £1.1m Learning Technologies Stage 1 competitionhttps://www.innovateuk.org/-/learning-technologies-design-for-impact

Education and Training Foundation - £1m Learning Futures competition https://lfutures.co.uk (open until 26th Sept)

+ New Computing curriculum!

3. Responses

https://www.codeclub.org.uk/

https://www.codeclub.org.uk/

http://www.teentech.com/

http://www.teentech.com/

https://youngrewiredstate.org/

https://youngrewiredstate.org/

https://www.innovateuk.org/-/learning-technologies-design-for-impact



https://lfutures.co.uk/

https://lfutures.co.uk/


Government responses:

Year of Code announcement & funding - http://goo.gl/ZR3aYD

“Providing the BCS with more than £2 million to set up a network of 400 ‘Master Teachers’ to train teachers in other schools and provide resources for use in the classroom.

Providing £1.1 million to Computing at School help train primary teachers already working in the classroom – through online resources and in school workshops.

Increasing bursaries for those wanting to become computing teachers. Scholarships of £25,000 – backed by Microsoft, Google, IBM and Facebook – are being offered to computer science teachers.”

3. Responses

http://goo.gl/ZR3aYD

http://goo.gl/ZR3aYD


3. Responses

Some Jisc initiatives:

Hairdressing Training


3. Responses



Jorum – Over 16,000 Open Educational Resources


3. Responses



Jorum – Over 16,000 Open Educational Resources

e-books for FE – Over 3,000 books available to Colleges

+ Many more, visit our exhibition stand!


Education Technology Action Group (ETAG), successor to FELTAG advising Department for Education on Tech Enhanced Learning – http://etag.support.

ETAG Workstreams:

1. Connected institutions – the globalization of learning, impact of cloud computing, removing barriers to uptake of online learning.

2. Data and infrastructure – learning analytics for both the learner and the institution, use of personal technology in teaching and learning.

3. Understanding and accrediting learning – taking account of the latest research in how we learn, better measures of performance, and encouraging the uptake of innovative approaches to teaching and learning.

+ Wild card contributions

4. ETAG in a Nutshell

http://etag.support/

http://etag.support/


4. ETAG in a Nutshell

Picture credit:Stephen Heppell


5. Your NEET Ideas

Draw on your expertise and knowledge of edtech to suggest support that would help our NEETs to thrive.

5 minutes for studying/discussing personas.

Now pick a persona, cluster with other people who chose your persona, and pick a rapporteur.

20 minutes to discuss potential approaches – who, what, where, why, how?

10 minutes for reports back from rapporteurs + discussion


5. Your NEET Ideas


5. Your NEET Ideas


5. Your NEET Ideas


5. Your NEET Ideas


5. Your NEET Ideas

Draw on your expertise and knowledge of edtech to suggest support that would help our NEETs to thrive.

5 minutes for studying/discussing personas.

Now pick a persona, cluster with other people who chose your persona, and pick a rapporteur.

20 minutes to discuss potential approaches – who, what, where, why, how?

10 minutes for reports back from rapporteurs + discussion



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