Befriend with the machines

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21st century skills are a broad set of knowledge, skills, work habits and character qualities to ensure well-being, participation and employment that are needed in our nowadays rapidly changing society. Befriend with the machines is one of the skills zones that are part of the 21st century skills. Befriend the machine skills need to be continuously increased, improved and changed due to the fast technology developments.
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Peer-interviews with young people showed that not everybody is aware of their technical and digital skills, knowledge and attitude that they are using daily, neither are young people always aware that there are a lot opportunities that can help to develop Befriend the machine skills. Technical innovation development is fast, imaganing what 2030 will look like, will help in knowing what skills you need to devlop. Many young people can learn from friends, from games, from sports, from employers and so on.
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In this learning playlist you will find 2 businesses (Warp VR and Hoffmann) that share their work and expertice concering the Befriend with the Machine skills zone. Also they have 2 challenges for you to respond at. This will make your Befriend with the Machine skills awareness grow.
 
Another highlight of this learning playlist is the opportunity to take part in the Mozilla Festival workshop and designing an learning activity for young people. We invite you in this activity to think about something technical or digital that has your interest and then think how you can share your knowledge, skill or attitude with young people so the awareness of the Befriend the machine skills zone will grow. 
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The future ready activity will let you think about the future, what will it look like? This will give you an idea what to prepare for so you already you can start learning not only for what you need to have for skills today, but more over, which skills you would need to have tomorrow, so you know how to create your learning path.
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The Befriend with the machines learning playlist is part of the projects Digital Generation Youth and Cities of learning, youth co-design learning, civic and career pathways where the skill zone Befriend the machine is one of topics that will be spoken about among young people.
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Feel free to complete all activities or just 1, you are the one that creates your own learning path! For each activity you can earn an open badge.When you finish all activities you will earn the learning playlist open badge. You can share these open badges for example at your CV.
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Most of all, enjoy learning!

Activities to complete

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MozillaFestival: Befriend with the Machines - awareness campaign

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3 hours

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What does the world in 2030 look like? Machines are getting smarter. Some of them will work for you, sometimes you’ll work for them - or even with them. More and more, you’ll work side by side to get things done. 
Which skills do young people need to master to create human-machine collaboration? Do you have ideas about that? And do you want to inspire or teach others? Than this activity is for you!
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The skill zone Befriend the machines cannot be taught through traditional means. If you want tot grow this skill zone, you have to explore the digital resources on your own, which emphasizes the real-world applications of this vital skill. For example, an online learner must use online tools to solve a common problem, or when someone wants to understand a specific digital assistant it is recommended to start using the assistant and learn where it works well and what the assistant is not useful for. And quite often people need others to support them in understanding the new world that is openening up. Some people are asking friends or colleagues to  explain or show them how to act. Others find social media groups where they find support.
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Awareness campaign
Collaborate to design and share original art, music, games, and stories that will support young people to imagine the future. Your art, music, game or story will be published at the Cities of Learning Platform so other young people can use your resource. Learn and at the same time raise young people’s awareness about human-machine collaboration. Everyone who has interest in the theme 'Befriend with the machines' can join, by trying out the awareness activities that other people created, or by developing a learning activity by yourself to educate other people.
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Goals of this awareness campaign
- Become aware of the changing world, especially the influence of technology, such as automation, robotization, and VR/AR on future work.
- Become aware of the opportunities and threats of all these technological developments.
- Gain insight about future opportunities and important skills for future work.
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Create your own Befriend with the machines awareness campaign for young people. 
1. Think about something that really inspires you or a specific skill that you have. How can you support others to develop that skill or knowledge too? It can be anything, from teaching how to use VR to showing a video about a tech workspace so other people can understand which machines are supporting humans and where human-machine collaboration is used.
2. Who is your target group? How would they like to learn? Create your activity in the way that your target group would like to learn.
3. When you want to learn from what other people have created, you can visit https://www.tilburg.cityoflearnign.eu or https://www.global.cityoflearning.eu﻿
4. Publish your learning activity at one of the online Cities of Learning platforms at https://www.citiesoflearning.eu in the language that you wish. Languages can be changed at the bottom of the platforms. 
When you want more information about how to create your own learning activity, then visit https://global.cityoflearning.eu/en/activities/7321﻿
5. Share your City of Learning activity at social media and start growing awareness for the Befriend with the machines skill zone.
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When you want some support, feel free to connect with one of the organisations that are organising this campaign. Or connect with Cities of Learning via the question button at the platfrom.

Resources

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What does the world in 2030 look like? Machines are getting smarter. Some of them will work for you, sometimes you’ll work for them - or even with them. More and more, you’ll work side by side to get things done. 
Which skills do young people need to master to create human-machine collaboration?
The holder of this badge designed a Befriend with the machines awareness campaign via original art, music, games, and/or stories that support young people to the realisation of learning how to collaborate with digital technology.  And shared this awareness campaign at the Cities of Learning Platform. This badge is part of the Befriend with the machines skills zone from the Global Youth Skills framework that indicates how you can be fit for the future.The holder has independently worked on this competence during the international Mozilla Festival 2021.

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Share the activity that you have created by putting the url link or video as evidence. One of the organisations that are organising this awareness campaign will issue you the badge.

Mozilla Festival: Befriend with the machines - online workshop

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1 hour

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WARP VR

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30 minutes

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HOFFMANN CYBERSECURITY

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30 minutes

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Global Youth Skills: Pathways for future-ready learners

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20 minutes

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Teamwork with digital assistants and robots

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20 minutes

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Digital Fluency

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45 minutes

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Simulated action

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20 minutes

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Skills

ESCO

#think analytically

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#cyber security

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#reflexion

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#model sensor

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#digital communication and collaboration

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#promote social awareness

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#plan future capacity requirements

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#education administration

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#mechatronics

Activities: 8

Started: 14

Completed playlist: 0

Time to complete: 6 hours 45 minutes

Organisers

Tilburg City of Learning

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