Befriend with the machines

Content

21st century skills are a broad set of knowledge, skills, work habits and character qualities to ensure well-being, participation and employment that are needed in our nowadays rapidly changing society. Befriend with the machines is one of the skills zones that are part of the 21st century skills. Befriend the machine skills need to be continuously increased, improved and changed due to the fast technology developments.
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Peer-interviews with young people showed that not everybody is aware of their technical and digital skills, knowledge and attitude that they are using daily, neither are young people always aware that there are a lot opportunities that can help to develop Befriend the machine skills. Technical innovation development is fast, imaganing what 2030 will look like, will help in knowing what skills you need to devlop. Many young people can learn from friends, from games, from sports, from employers and so on.
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In this learning playlist you will find 2 businesses (Warp VR and Hoffmann) that share their work and expertice concering the Befriend with the Machine skills zone. Also they have 2 challenges for you to respond at. This will make your Befriend with the Machine skills awareness grow.
 
Another highlight of this learning playlist is the opportunity to take part in the Mozilla Festival workshop and designing an learning activity for young people. We invite you in this activity to think about something technical or digital that has your interest and then think how you can share your knowledge, skill or attitude with young people so the awareness of the Befriend the machine skills zone will grow. 
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The future ready activity will let you think about the future, what will it look like? This will give you an idea what to prepare for so you already you can start learning not only for what you need to have for skills today, but more over, which skills you would need to have tomorrow, so you know how to create your learning path.
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The Befriend with the machines learning playlist is part of the projects Digital Generation Youth and Cities of learning, youth co-design learning, civic and career pathways where the skill zone Befriend the machine is one of topics that will be spoken about among young people.
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Feel free to complete all activities or just 1, you are the one that creates your own learning path! For each activity you can earn an open badge.When you finish all activities you will earn the learning playlist open badge. You can share these open badges for example at your CV.
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Most of all, enjoy learning!

Activities to complete

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

MozillaFestival: Befriend with the Machines - awareness campaign

Mandatory

3 hours

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Mozilla Festival: Befriend with the machines - online workshop

Mandatory

1 hour

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WARP VR

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30 minutes

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HOFFMANN CYBERSECURITY

Mandatory

30 minutes

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Global Youth Skills: Pathways for future-ready learners

Mandatory

20 minutes

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Teamwork with digital assistants and robots

Mandatory

20 minutes

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Content

Digital assistants and robots come in many forms, for example robots in healthcare or education, smart speakers via the internet such as Google assistant and Amazon Alexa. In this online activity you can watch several inspiring video's and look at inspiring tech innovators. After this you can think about ways how to develop the skill to collaborate with digital assistants and why you think it is important to be able to put multiple smart digital assistants to work for you.
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When viewing the videos and articles:
What do you think the video/article is about?
What opportunities and challenges does the technology shown in the video/article?
What skills do you need to have to work with these technological possibilities?
How can you make other young people aware of the opportunities and possibilities of the technology in the video/article?

Resources

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Teamwork with digital assistants Get this badge

Digital assistants now come in many forms, for example robots in healthcare or education, smart speakers via the internet such as Google assistant and Amazon Alexa. 
The holder of this badge is aware that you need to develop competencies to be able to put smart digital assistants to work for you, that you need to know how to communicate with machines and that you need to work on skills both in the VR and AR world as in the physical world. This badge is part of the Befriend with the machines skills zone from the Global Youth Skills framework that indicates how you can be fit for the future.
The holder has independently worked on this competence.
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Tasks

Task no.1

Issued by organiser or scanning QR code

Which digital assistants or robots are you already using? Are you aware of the support that they give you? List three ways you can start building a better collaboration with your digital assistant or robot already today.

Task no.2

Issued by organiser or scanning QR code

Share why it is important or not important to be able to put multiple smart digital assistants or robots to work for you.
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You can think of describing why this is (not) important. It is also possible to make a blog or social media post about this in order to work in a positive way on your visibility to others. And adding that blog here to this task as proof.

Digital Fluency

Mandatory

45 minutes

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Simulated action

Mandatory

20 minutes

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Skills

ESCO

#think analytically

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#cyber security

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#reflexion

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#model sensor

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#digital communication and collaboration

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#promote social awareness

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#plan future capacity requirements

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#education administration

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#mechatronics

Activities: 8

Started: 13

Completed playlist: 0

Time to complete: 6 hours 45 minutes

Organisers

Tilburg City of Learning

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