Future makers: which skills do you care about?

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The Institute for the Future predicts that our future learning and working pathways will be based on skills in five key areas. Some of them will be more important to you than others, but they will all be part of our future.
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Areas of future skills:
Make Yourself Known with skills for managing your reputation and identity
Befriend the Machines to curate, create and simulate our complex world
Build Your Crew with startups, communities and networks
Make Sense with storytelling, frameworks for action and ecosystem thinking
Keep it All Going with skills for caring, sharing and evolving human capacities
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Which skills do seem most interesting, important or most inspiring to you? Find more details in this Future Skills Map!
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Choose one, several or all! 
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To get a badge for this activity:
complete this skills checklist and think about important skills for your future;
if you have a team, share your results and talk about them;
upload a photo or print screen of the checklist and reflect on the badge task.
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Watch some videos to imagine the world of futures.
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Source:  Institute for the Future (IFTF)﻿
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Source: World Economic Forum﻿
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Source:  Growth Tribe﻿
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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.
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Credits:
﻿Global Youth Skills by the Institute for the Future
Cover image: photo by Conor Luddy on Unsplash

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This badge is issued to people who have identified and thought about their most essential skills for the future.
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The Institute for the Future predicts that our future learning and working pathways will be based on skills in five key areas. Some of them will be more important than others, but they will all be part of our futures.
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Areas of future skills:
Make Yourself Known with skills for managing your reputation and identity;
Befriend the Machines to curate, create and simulate our complex world;
Build Your Crew with start-ups, communities and networks;
Make Sense with storytelling, frameworks for action and ecosystem thinking;
Keep it All Going with skills for caring, sharing, and evolving human capacities.
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The holders of this badge have identified and thought about the future skills and their relevance to future learning, civic engagement and careers.
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The Network of Cities of Learning promotes, offers and endorses this badge.

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Task no.1

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Use this skills checklist to identify vital skills for the future and think which ones are important to your future learning, civic engagement and careers. Upload an image, photo, print screen or file of the completed skills checklist and share your thoughts on the following questions:
Which skills are most important to you in shaping your future? Why? 
Which skills do you want to improve? How?
Where in your city, and how can you develop essential skills for your future learning, civic and career paths? What opportunities are missing?

Skills

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#use critical thinking skills

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#analytical thinking

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#job opportunities

Career and job readiness

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Time to complete: 30 minutes

Organisers

Network of Cities and Regions of Learning

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

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