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North & South Skill Divide
North & South Skill Divide
Unhappy reading in the local news papers that the skills divide between the north and south is even wider. It seems that London, is once again, giving Manchester and the North a good kick up the backside and the joke is all ours.
In the north we know there is a skills gap, its screamed about in the news papers or on television every few months. Plans are already in place to help with "digital exclusion" - making sure people are not excluded from life because they don't have the digital skills to go online. But not much is being done to make sure that "digital inclusion" is tackled.
Our plan is to make sure schools have the skills to allow children to be included in the digital world. We want children to be given the skills that will permit them to not only think creatively, but know how to use and access tools that allows them to turn their ideas into real projects and present them to the world.
It's Not Just About Digital Skills
It's Not Just About Digital Skills
Digital skill is just one part of the planned skills we want to pass onto children. Google Cloud allows children to work in a totally different way and learn skills that are very different to skills children may learn in the current IT curriculum such as coding
Children will be expected to think for themselves and gain the necessary skills to find the answers to their own questions. We want children to be able to make discussions, become independent thinkers or work as teams to solve much bigger problems.
This is part of the 4 C's - Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking and Creativity,
These are major life long skills and we want to make sure that children pick up these skill at a very early age - in fact these are some of top ten skills employers are looking for in 2019
Benefits
Benefits
- Full use of Google Cloud Platform throughout the training.
- Totally hands on.
- Understand the benefits of cloud computing.
- Give your children the future skills they need.
- Reduce your I.T. costs.
- Become a leading digital school in your area.
- Become part of a digital hub.
- Work on projects with others schools in your area or around the world.
- Grow your schools digital skills and promote the 21st century learning.
- Prepare children for high school, colledge and eventually employment.
- Most importantly - Bridge the north, south education and skills divide.
Cloud computing - its sounds very complected, but nothing could be further from the truth. Google had "dumb-down" the whole process and at the same time gives you a whole host of powerful cloud based tools that everyone can use.
Apart from the introduction of iPads, schools I.T. has not moved on since the mid 1980's. All schools, in the next few years, will move to some form of cloud computing; if you don't you will be look very last century and would be unable to offer your children the 21st century digital skills that they need.
Teachers need to add this CPD to their CV. Digital skills will be very much in demand in the next few years, so - Don't run to catch up, be a digital leader.
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