Future makers. Lead your learning, civic and career pathways to the future.

Content

Today, young people - perhaps like you - have a broad view of life. You know the world of work is changing fast. Digital transformations, automation, climate change, remote work and the gig economy are changing the world of work and have an impact on our personal and civic life (explore more megatrends). A lifelong career no longer looks natural and attractive because life is full of choices and opportunities.
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You can also choose from a variety of learning paths that stretch beyond school. Your phone connects you with educators and mentors, learning opportunities and communities around the planet. You can join these opportunities for five minutes or five days and start another of your learning adventures or another work project.
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How can you take advantage of all this?
How will you build your work and learning path to the skills and income you need to achieve your life goals?
How will your chosen learning, career and civic path prepare you for a future that can offer anything?
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Now, young people around the world are developing new, experiential learning, career and civic paths. They are innovators of their future.
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The Institute for the Future has interviewed 60 young people in 6 cities worldwide and created 9 future personas that embody these people’s stories.
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Now is your time!
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Meet these people from the future. Discover what skills, strategies and learning resources enable these people to be successful in the future. Get inspiration from their stories and build your personal learning and career path - wide enough for everything you want to do and achieve.
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To test your readiness for the future and develop the necessary skills strategically, do the following:
assess how much your characteristics and behaviour patterns coincide with the prototypes of lead learners;
name the future skills that seem most important to you;
choose people who inspire you from the future;
compare your skillset with personas from the future, look into strategies and resources used to build learning, civic and career pathways;
name your growth strategy as future innovators.
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Complete all the activities offered in this learning playlist. Upload your results and thoughts on future skills to collect activity badges. Unlock the top-level badge in this playlist. Check the endorsement section of this badge to learn what you can unlock by presenting this badge to the Network of Cities of Learning partners.
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Watch this video and thin which purposeful pathway you want to take in the future.
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Source:  TEDx Talks
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The Network of Cities of Learning offers this learning pathway within the capacity-building project ‘Youth co-design learning, civic and career pathways’. We are grateful to the EU’s Erasmus+ Programme for co-funding support for this project.
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Credits:
﻿Global Youth Skills by the Institute for the Future
Cover image: Photo by Zuzanna Adamczyk on Unsplash
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Activities to complete

Complete the following activities, earn badges and you will see your playlist progress updated

Future makers: are you ready?

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20 minutes

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Future makers: which skills do you care about?

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30 minutes

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Future makers: meet your future self!

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45 minutes

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Future makers: create your skill strategy.

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30 minutes

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Content

The Institute for the Future has identified five skill areas that will be essential for the success of future learning and career paths. They are: Make Yourself Known, Befriend the Machines, Build Your Crew, Make Sense, Keep it All Going.
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Each area has its own set of skills for the future. The skillset of the area in which you are the strongest will help you choose the path of future learning, civic engagement and career.
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Steps you can take:
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Review the skillset of your chosen future individuals (see the archetypes). In which areas are these individuals most substantial?
Then, use this skills strategy worksheet choose your most vital areas of skills and resources. These are your skills that you can choose to build your future learning, civic and career pathways. For example, to build teams you can choose to focus on the skills that will help you operate in communities, connect to global networks and expand your future opportunities.
After naming your strengths, compare them to your chosen future person. Is your profile similar to the person you chose? If not, compare your profile with another archetype. Your future awaits you.
Finally, come up with a title for your capacity-building strategy that reveals how you plan to build capacity in the selected areas.
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The chosen person from the future can inspire you to create unique pathways to future learning, civic engagement and careers.
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To get a badge for this activity:
analyse the chosen archetypes from the future and use this worksheet to identify your strengths and areas to focus;
if you have a team, share your results and talk about them;
upload an image, photo, print screen or document with your strengths and growth areas, and reflect on the badge task.
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The Network of Cities of Learning offers this learning activity within the capacity-building project ‘Youth co-design learning, civic and career pathways’. We are grateful to the EU’s Erasmus+ Programme for co-funding support for this project.

Resources

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Future maker: my skills strategy Get this badge

This badge is issued to people who have identified their strongest areas of ability and considered a personal growth strategy in the following areas of skills:
Make Yourself Known, Befriend the Machines, Build Your Crew, Make Sense, Keep it All Going.
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The Institute for the Future has identified these skill areas that will be essential for the success of future learning and career paths.
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Holders of this badge have named their strengths and chose a personal growth strategy.
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The Network of Cities of Learning promotes, offers and endorses this badge.

Tasks

Task no.1

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Use the worksheet to start building your growth strategy for the future. Upload an image, photo, print screen or file with your assessment of the potential and development of skills. Share your thoughts on the following questions:
What was the most straightforward/challenging part of this task? What did you discover about yourself?
What do you need to realise your capacity-building strategy?
Where in your city and how can you develop the capacity to achieve your future goals? What opportunities are missing?

Future makers: lead your path to the future!

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45 minutes

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Skills

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#using learning strategies

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#analytical thinking

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#plan learning

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#inspire others

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#self-awareness

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#strategic planning

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#perform self-assessment

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#job opportunities

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#personal development

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#strategic thinking

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#use critical thinking skills

Activities: 5

Started: 82

Completed playlist: 15

Time to complete: 2 hours 50 minutes

Organisers

Network of Cities and Regions of Learning

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