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In July 1859, Scientific American rallied against a wicked game that made both the mind and body weaker…
‘Chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements’.
History has not been kind to Games
Shock! Horror!
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Game Platforms
Global Market
$90b by 2016
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Intuitive Learning
Problem-Solving
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Creativity
Management Simulations
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Relevant
Games Skills = Life Skills
Interactive Creativity
Problem-solving Community
Planning Self Esteem
Motivation Logistics
Intuitive Learning Hand-Eye Co-ordination
Trial and Error Risk Taking
Engaging Teamwork
Social Skills Imagination
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400+ UK Games Studios
The Video Games Industry
UK industry: £2 billion in global sales in 2008
Yet slipped from 3rd to 6th place in global development rankings in just two years
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www.nesta.org.uk
Next Gen. Ian Livingstone and Alex Hope
It’s NOT just about Games
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Empowered for the Digital Age
Do we direct technology? Or do we let ourselves be directed by it?
Digital Technology
The Chevy Volt has 10,000,000 lines of embedded software.
Control software strategically important.
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Digital Technology
Fly-by-Wire technology is a competitive advantage for Airbus
War on Cybercrime
WW1
WW2
WWW
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Where is our Mark or Martha Zuckerberg UK?
Higher Education/FE
The Talent Pipeline
Industry Schools
Continuing Professional
Development
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I asked 325 Children Aged 13+
1. Who thinks the current ICT curriculum is boring? 72%
2. Who would like to learn how to code? 79%
3. Who thinks having computer science on the schools national curriculum is a good thing? 88%
4. Who thinks studying art and science is better than studying one or the other? 65%
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Next Gen Skills for 21st Century
• ICT is to Computer Science what reading is to writing
• Make Apps as well as use Apps
• Computer Science is the new Latin
• Digital Manufacturing: Making and Doing
Next Gen
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Next Gen: Schools
Recommendation 1
Bring Computer Science into the National
Curriculum as an essential discipline
Next Gen: Schools
Recommendation 5
Include Art and Computer Science in the
English Baccalaureate
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Next Gen – Another Dust Collector?
Twenty recommendations promoting the vital role that teaching maths, physics, art and computer science will play in ensuring the growth of UK’s digital, creative and hi-tech industries
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Good Old Uncle Eric
“I was flabbergasted to learn that today Computer Science isn't even taught as standard in UK schools”
“Your IT curriculum focuses on teaching how to use software, but gives no insight into how it's made”.
MacTaggart Lecture, 2011
Well if Eric said it, it must be true
“I think Eric Schmidt is right... we're not doing enough to teach the next generation of programmers.”
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So what is this Computer Science stuff?
BCS Academy of Computing
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Computer Science
Information Technology
Digital literacy
GCSE
Primary
How can we teach the language of code?
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BCS Academy of Computing 91
in collaboration with BCS The Chartered Institute for IT
• £2m DfE CPD funding for 400 CAS teachers to each teach 40 teachers in Computer Science
• Google funding 100 new Teach First teachers
Learning from
Adaptable ready-made code
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Computer Science testing
Please, not another three hour written exam
Q1: Who invented www?
Computing: the clue is it’s a Verb
Show me your code!
The Livingstone Foundation
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“Education is not just the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think.”
Albert Einstein
That’s all very well in practice, but what’s it like in theory?
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Collaboration is not Cheating!
Beyond the Classroom
Does it matter that some lessons are delivered by YouTube? The classroom becomes the place where pupils share and show what they have learned - a vibrant place with teachers there to curate the classroom.
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Lines? Lines of Code!
10 PRINT “I will be good – at coding”
20 GOTO 10
Skills for Jobs that don’t YET Exist
Enquiring minds, problem solvers, self-learners, collaborators, creative innovators, digital operators, good communicators, motivated risk-takers who are not afraid of failure and learn from their mistakes.
Encourage Entrepreneurial Endeavour
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Equal Digital Opportunities
• Think of an idea that has value
• Start a Digital Business
• Crowd Fund
• Monetise
• Scale
“A person who has never made a mistake never tried anything new”
Albert Einstein