Mikulas Gaussman: a citizen digitally resourced for the future?

step 1: choose a vision of the year 2038

Read the following blog excerpt from a digital education historian from 2038. Which research question (a) or (b), more accurately captures your view of what might happen to digitally skilled workforce?

Dear blog,

Back in 2013, there was a call to address the anticipated need for a work force capable of dealing with the demands of a more technologically enhanced society. The UK under-secretary for Education at the time, Elizabeth Truss, voiced how curriculum reform initiatives were needed to strengthen digital technologies and computing, along with other STEM subjects. These were seen as crucial to future economic success especially in an era of increasingly highly skilled workforces and global competition (archives accessed 31 October, 2013) www.gov.uk/government/speeches/elizabeth-truss-speaks-about-curriculum-reform  . 

Even back then it was suggested that growth industries would be deeply reliant on understanding of and use of technology. Genetic, Robotic, Information, and Nano-technologies. These GRIN Techs as they were dubbed then did and continue to demand understanding and application of the technologies and theories upon which they are built.

One possible research question arises in relation to the UK and its workforce today (AD 2038) : [select either A or B below]

[Ending A] Is the UK as a global leader in GRIN tech(in 2038) attributable to the uptake of digital literacy initiatives in educational contexts back in 2014?

[Ending B] Is the UK’s current lack in digitally skilled workforce, in 2038, attributable to malaise and lack of digital literacy support initiatives in educational contexts back in 2014?

step 2: read further

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