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?

Mandatory

20 minutes

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Future makers: which skills do you care about?

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30 minutes

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Content

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

Resources

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Future maker: essential skills Get this badge

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.

Tasks

Task no.1

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

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?

Future makers: meet your future self!

Mandatory

45 minutes

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Future makers: create your skill strategy.

Mandatory

30 minutes

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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: 81

Completed playlist: 15

Time to complete: 2 hours 50 minutes

Organisers

Network of Cities and Regions of Learning

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