These are the introductory slides for my workshop at the 2014 ALT-C conference. The goal of this session is to draw upon the expertise and experience of Learning Technologists to identify support that could be offered to help so-called "NEETs" to thrive.

1. FELTAG to ETAG:
Time for Some
NEET Ideas
ALT-C #altneet
September 2014
Martin Hamilton @martin_hamilton
m.hamilton@jisc.ac.uk http://martinh.net

2. FELTAG to ETAG:
Time for Some
NEET Ideas
ALT-C #altneet
September 2014
Martin Hamilton @martin_hamilton
m.hamilton@jisc.ac.uk http://martinh.net
Image CC BY-NC-ND Flickr user seldamn

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Time for Some NEET Ideas
1. The NEET phenomenon
2. The digital skills crisis
3. Responses
4. ETAG in a nutshell
5. Your NEET ideas

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1. The NEET Phenomenon

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1. The NEET Phenomenon
Lost in Transition, the Work Foundation's 2011
report on the NEET phenomenon -
http://goo.gl/axQHyK
“In 2011 nearly a third of young people classified as
NEET had qualifications at A-Level or above, a third
left school with GCSE grades A-C, and one in six had
achieved other qualifications such as NVQs.
Nearly a third had personal situations that made it
difficult for them to engage with conventional
education programmes, such as disabilities or
responsibilities as carers for family members.”

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2. The Digital Skills Crisis
Research & Consultation:
Next Gen report from NESTA in 2011:
http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/next-gen
(Ian Livingstone et al)
“The education system (including universities
and FE colleges) doesn’t provide the skills that
the UK video games and visual effects industries
need.
Computer science should be on the national
curriculum alongside maths and physics; a GCSE
in computer science should be introduced in all
schools.”

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2. The Digital Skills Crisis
Research & Consultation:
UK Digital Skills Task Force in 2014
Digital Skills for Tomorrow’s World report -
http://www.ukdigitalskills.com
(Maggie Philbin et al)
“As of March 2014 there were still 975,000
young people in the UK who were not in
education, employment or training, despite
Microsoft reporting that there were 100,000
unfilled vacancies unfilled in partner companies
across the UK last year.”

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2. The Digital Skills Crisis
Research & Consultation:
Further Education Learning Technology Action
Group (FELTAG) report – http://feltag.org.uk
“Employers’ role in the development and delivery
of FE curricula. Identify to what extent digital
technology can help get greater engagement of
employers in the design and delivery of learning.
An innovation fund should support leading-edge
apprenticeships, traineeships and internships
that use a high degree of digital technology in
their delivery”

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3. Responses
Community responses:
Code Club - https://www.codeclub.org.uk
TeenTech - http://www.teentech.com
Young Rewired State - https://youngrewiredstate.org
Government responses:
Innovate UK - £1.1m Learning Technologies Stage 1
competitionhttps://www.innovateuk.org/-/learning-technologies-design-for-impact
Education and Training Foundation - £1m Learning Futures competition
https://lfutures.co.uk (open until 26th Sept)
+ New Computing curriculum!

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3. Responses
Government responses:
Year of Code announcement & funding - http://goo.gl/ZR3aYD
“Providing the BCS with more than £2 million to set up a network of 400
‘Master Teachers’ to train teachers in other schools and provide resources for
use in the classroom.
Providing £1.1 million to Computing at School help train primary teachers
already working in the classroom – through online resources and in school
workshops.
Increasing bursaries for those wanting to become computing teachers.
Scholarships of £25,000 – backed by Microsoft, Google, IBM and Facebook –
are being offered to computer science teachers.”

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3. Responses
Some Jisc initiatives:
Hairdressing Training

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3. Responses
Some Jisc initiatives:
Hairdressing Training
Jorum – Over 16,000 Open
Educational Resources

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3. Responses
Some Jisc initiatives:
Hairdressing Training
Jorum – Over 16,000 Open
Educational Resources
e-books for FE – Over 3,000
books available to Colleges
+ Many more, visit our
exhibition stand!

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4. ETAG in a Nutshell
Education Technology Action Group (ETAG), successor to FELTAG advising
Department for Education on Tech Enhanced Learning – http://etag.support.
ETAG Workstreams:
1. Connected institutions – the globalization of learning, impact of cloud
computing, removing barriers to uptake of online learning.
2. Data and infrastructure – learning analytics for both the learner and the
institution, use of personal technology in teaching and learning.
3. Understanding and accrediting learning – taking account of the latest
research in how we learn, better measures of performance, and encouraging
the uptake of innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
+ Wild card contributions

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4. ETAG in a Nutshell
Picture credit:
Stephen Heppell

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5. Your NEET Ideas
Draw on your expertise and knowledge of edtech to suggest
support that would help our NEETs to thrive.
5 minutes for studying/discussing personas.
Now pick a persona, cluster with other people who chose your
persona, and pick a rapporteur.
20 minutes to discuss potential approaches – who, what, where,
why, how?
10 minutes for reports back from rapporteurs + discussion

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5. Your NEET Ideas

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5. Your NEET Ideas

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5. Your NEET Ideas

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5. Your NEET Ideas

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5. Your NEET Ideas
Draw on your expertise and knowledge of edtech to suggest
support that would help our NEETs to thrive.
5 minutes for studying/discussing personas.
Now pick a persona, cluster with other people who chose your
persona, and pick a rapporteur.
20 minutes to discuss potential approaches – who, what, where,
why, how?
10 minutes for reports back from rapporteurs + discussion

22. FELTAG to ETAG:
Time for Some
NEET Ideas
ALT-C #altneet
September 2014
Martin Hamilton @martin_hamilton
m.hamilton@jisc.ac.uk http://martinh.net