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The 10 skills you need to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution | World Economic F... - 0 views

  • By 2020, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have brought us advanced robotics and autonomous transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials, biotechnology and genomics. These developments will transform the way we live, and the way we work. Some jobs will disappear, others will grow and jobs that don’t even exist today will become commonplace. What is certain is that the future workforce will need to align its skillset to keep pace.
  • Creativity will become one of the top three skills workers will need.
  • negotiation and flexibility are high on the list of skills
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  • Those working in sales and manufacturing will need new skills, such as technological literacy.
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    Technological change sets new requrements to people as some occupaitons become obsolete and others emerge. Tops skills in the next 5 years are: complex problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, people management, coordinating with others, emotional intelligence, judgement and decision making, service orientation, negotiation, cognitive flexibility.
Maria Gurova

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    A constant need to analyze ever increasing amount of data coming from new sources requires new type of analytics and expertise, the tendency that will make corporations invest in the new analytical tools and employees with a new set of skills
al_semenchenko

Can You Teach a Coal Miner to Code? - Backchannel - Medium - 1 views

  • As America switches from an industrial economy to a digital one, its bluest collar workers are facing the toughest challenge of their lives. Can miners really learn how to code?
  • Say what you will about the long-term environmental effects (Justice, for one, is very pro-coal) but the impact on the area’s one-source economy has been brutal.
  • The Rusty Justice seminar concludes for today. The coders swivel back to their computers, and Michael announces weekend plans to no one in particular: “Looks like I better learn C#.”
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  • What they’re building in its place is all so fragile and new. Parrish is worried even about the effect of U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez coming to shake the coders’ hands, or reporters like me coming to do stories. “We just don’t want all the notoriety to give the false illusion that we developed all the skills.”
  • BitSource would like to hire a second class of coders at the beginning of the new year. He, Parrish, and Hall want to fill up their buildings, create an incubator for entrepreneurs, a makerspace for craftsmen, and, someday, if they play their cards incredibly well, a bonafide Pikeville tech scene. You know, make Bloomberg in his smart suit eat crow for once.
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    Due to technoligical advensments many job will become absoulete but workers will be able to learn new professions quickly.
Vladimir Antonov

Build-it-yourself spider robot aims to help kids learn robotics - 0 views

  • Assembling is half the fun
  • by building the robot you'll learn the basics of 3D modeling, electronics, mobile app coding and Arduino programming
  • platform is fully Open Access, meaning everyone will be able to freely modify all of its aspects
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  • founders promised to make the source code, as well as all the blueprints and 3D models free and accessible to everyone.
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    STEMI - a play on the acronym STEM, meaning Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics - is an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for a hexapod robot that moves like to a spider. Unlike many other commercial robots, however, this one comes in a kit, together with a set of multimedia lessons that helps you assemble it into a working robot.
Oleg Batluk

Most preschoolers use tablets, smartphones daily - WDAM-TV 7-News, Weather, Sports-Hatt... - 2 views

  • The study of 350 children in a low-income, minority community suggests that an income-based "digital divide" is shrinking.
  • some parents might be using technology as a surrogate babysitter.
  • The older the children were, the more likely they were to have their own technology.
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  • one-quarter of 2-year-olds needed no help using a smartphone or tablet, the findings showed.
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    Mobile technologies are getting close to infant ages though might be dangerous as surrogate babysitting. 
Maria Gurova

Star Wars Characters Will Now Teach Your Kids To Code | WIRED - 1 views

  • Today, as part of its annual Hour of Code event, Code.org is launching a free online tutorial that prompts kids to build their own games, based on characters in the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
  • where they’ll learn to write code to design their own games featuring characters like R2-D2 ad C-3PO.
  • Of the 5 million students currently registered on Code.org, around 2 million are girls and around 2 million are black or Hispanic.
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  • That’s one reason why the Hour of Code tutorial, which is available to anyone online, focuses on the film’s prominent female characters, instead of, say Han Solo or Luke Skywalker.
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    New collaboration between Code.org that spread the popularity of coding among kids and Disney. This time featuring SW franchise 
isoldatenkova

Capitalism Camp for Kids - The New York Times - 0 views

  • programs that are designed to teach students about how to be businesspeople and innovators (biznovators!).
  • children as young as 8 will learn how to monetize their hobbies, interview local corporate executives, and shoot YouTube commercials for their prospective businesses.
  • students are assessed, by the end of their programs, on “noncognitive skills” and on something called the Entrepreneurial Mind-set Index.
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  • a kid, at 10, can pick up these business principles and literally start their own little micro business.”
  • the whole spectrum of a woman in business: the challenges she had to overcome, personal branding, communication, etiquette, and then also teaching these girls how to have agency,
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