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Code Create Collaborate

@Ian_Livingstone

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Theatre of the Mind

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Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks

YOU are the Hero!

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Analogue Hypertext!

Gamification of Literature

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• Ban them!

• Levitation

• Vicar in Chains

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In July 1859, Scientific American rallied against a wicked game that made both the mind and body weaker…

‘Chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements’.

History has not been kind to Games

Shock! Horror!

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From Niche to Mainstream

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Children Play

Youth Play

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Seniors Play

Everybody’s Playing!!

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A Brief History of Computer and Video Games

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Back to the Future

Space War 1961

Pong 1972

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Atari VC5 2600 1977

Space Invaders, 1978 Asteroids, 1978

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Game Platforms

Global Market

$90b by 2016

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Console Games

PC Games

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Mobile Games

Games are Good for YOU!

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Social

Cultural

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Motivational

Educational

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Hands on, Minds on

Interactivity + Choice = Engagement

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Intuitive Learning

Problem-Solving

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Creativity

Management Simulations

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Relevant

Games Skills = Life Skills

Interactive Creativity

Problem-solving Community

Planning Self Esteem

Motivation Logistics

Intuitive Learning Hand-Eye Co-ordination

Trial and Error Risk Taking

Engaging Teamwork

Social Skills Imagination

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So Think Positive…

J L

And you never know!

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I can play it, but I can’t make it.

Digital Making in the UK

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Blockbusters developed in the UK

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400+ UK Games Studios

The Video Games Industry

UK industry: £2 billion in global sales in 2008

Yet slipped from 3rd to 6th place in global development rankings in just two years

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Who are you going to call?

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www.nesta.org.uk

Next Gen. Ian Livingstone and Alex Hope

It’s NOT just about Games

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It’s NOT about using Technology

It’s about enabling Digital Creativity

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Empowered for the Digital Age

Do we direct technology? Or do we let ourselves be directed by it?

Digital Technology

The Chevy Volt has 10,000,000 lines of embedded software.

Control software strategically important.

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Digital Technology

Fly-by-Wire technology is a competitive advantage for Airbus

War on Cybercrime

WW1

WW2

WWW

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Where is our Mark or Martha Zuckerberg UK?

Higher Education/FE

The Talent Pipeline

Industry Schools

Continuing Professional

Development

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I asked 325 Children Aged 13+

1. Who thinks the current ICT curriculum is boring? 72%

2. Who would like to learn how to code? 79%

3. Who thinks having computer science on the schools national curriculum is a good thing? 88%

4. Who thinks studying art and science is better than studying one or the other? 65%

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Next Gen Skills for 21st Century

• ICT is to Computer Science what reading is to writing

• Make Apps as well as use Apps

• Computer Science is the new Latin

• Digital Manufacturing: Making and Doing

Next Gen

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Next Gen: Schools

Recommendation 1

Bring Computer Science into the National

Curriculum as an essential discipline

Next Gen: Schools

Recommendation 5

Include Art and Computer Science in the

English Baccalaureate

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Computing in Schools

BBC Micro 1980s

ZX Spectrum 1982

Computing at Home

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Next Gen – Another Dust Collector?

Twenty recommendations promoting the vital role that teaching maths, physics, art and computer science will play in ensuring the growth of UK’s digital, creative and hi-tech industries

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Good Old Uncle Eric

“I was flabbergasted to learn that today Computer Science isn't even taught as standard in UK schools”

“Your IT curriculum focuses on teaching how to use software, but gives no insight into how it's made”.

MacTaggart Lecture, 2011

Well if Eric said it, it must be true

“I think Eric Schmidt is right... we're not doing enough to teach the next generation of programmers.”

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BETT 2012

September 2014:

Computing replaces ICT on the National Curriculum

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So what is this Computer Science stuff?

BCS Academy of Computing

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Information Technology

Digital literacy

GCSE

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How can we teach the language of code?

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BCS Academy of Computing 91

in collaboration with BCS The Chartered Institute for IT

• £2m DfE CPD funding for 400 CAS teachers to each teach 40 teachers in Computer Science

• Google funding 100 new Teach First teachers

Learning from

Adaptable ready-made code

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Raspberry Pi

The Hour of Code

www.uk.code.org

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Computer Science testing

Please, not another three hour written exam

Q1: Who invented www?

Computing: the clue is it’s a Verb

Show me your code!

The Livingstone Foundation

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“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education”

Albert Einstein

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“Education is not just the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think.”

Albert Einstein

That’s all very well in practice, but what’s it like in theory?

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If Knowledge is Power….

The Livingstone Foundation

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Collaboration is not Cheating!

Beyond the Classroom

Does it matter that some lessons are delivered by YouTube? The classroom becomes the place where pupils share and show what they have learned - a vibrant place with teachers there to curate the classroom.

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Playful Learning

Why not let the kids do some of the FUN creative stuff in school?

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Exams?

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Lines? Lines of Code!

10 PRINT “I will be good – at coding”

20 GOTO 10

Skills for Jobs that don’t YET Exist

Enquiring minds, problem solvers, self-learners, collaborators, creative innovators, digital operators, good communicators, motivated risk-takers who are not afraid of failure and learn from their mistakes.

Encourage Entrepreneurial Endeavour

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Equal Digital Opportunities

• Think of an idea that has value

• Start a Digital Business

• Crowd Fund

• Monetise

• Scale

“A person who has never made a mistake never tried anything new”

Albert Einstein

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@ian_livingstone

Thank You!