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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Content

Based on the expert insights and interviews with young people, the Institute for the Future has created a profile of lead learners - a set of qualities, skills, strategies and resources that characterise young people who are the first to explore new paths to learning, careers and civic engagement.
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Lead learners:
are able to imagine authentic personal futures;
use unique ways to shape their learning, civic and career paths;
strive to achieve their goals.
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Lead learners have many common behaviour patterns that unite them regardless of geographical location. These models can inspire us to imagine the future of learning, work and civic engagement.
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What about you? Do you have the traits that are necessary for future learning, civic engagement, and careers?
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Evaluate your characteristics and behaviours individually, or together with the team, to see how much they coincide with or differ from the profiles of future makers.
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To get a badge for this activity:
complete self-assessment worksheet and think about your traits and behaviours as a future maker;
if you have a team, share your results and talk with them;
upload the self-assessment print screen, image or file and reflect on the badge task.
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Get inspiration from the young people who were interviewed for the Extreme Learner research project to understand and imagine how new technologies, new ecologies, and new practices are disrupting how we learn, what we learn and where we learn.
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Source: Youtube playlist of Extreme Learners project﻿
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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: Cover image: photo by Carlo Alberto Burato on Unsplash

Resources

Download the self-assessment checklist “How ready are you for the future?”

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Future maker: ready for the future. Get this badge

This badge is issued to people who have self-assessed and thought through their preparation for the future.
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Based on expert insights and interviews with young people, the Institute for the Future has created a learners’ profile. These are people who possess a set of qualities, skills, strategies and resources to imagine personal futures, use unique ways to shape their learning, civic and career pathways, and lead to predictable personal futures.
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Holders of this badge have self-assessed and reflected on their lead learner traits and capacity to make their future learning, careers and civic pathways.
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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 the self-assessment worksheet to think about your traits and behaviours as a lead learner. Upload an image, print screen or file of the completed self-assessment. Share your thoughts on the following questions:
Which traits of a lead learner are most important to you in shaping your future? Why? 
Which qualities do you want to improve? Why?
Where in your city and how can you develop qualities and skills that are important for your future learning, career and civic paths? What opportunities are missing?

Future makers: which skills do you care about?

Mandatory

30 minutes

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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!

Mandatory

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: 82

Completed playlist: 15

Time to complete: 2 hours 50 minutes

Organisers

Network of Cities and Regions of Learning

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