The Opportunity Gap and What We Can Do About It:

Unrealized Potential from K-20 to Work

Ryan Davis, President and CEO, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce

21st Century Skills & the T-shaped Student

Education Design Lab

21st Century Skills Badging Challenge

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University

Closer to home...

Primary focus: to identify and badge cross-curricular, extra-curricular, open-curricular, or co-curricular competencies and activities* that are not otherwise captured by the traditional transcript or resume

• Durham College

• Fanshawe College

• Georgian College

• Loyalist College

• University of Waterloo

• Western University

• York University

• Ryerson University

Where are we now?

• more questions than answers
• some potential "buckets": cross-curricular; co-curricular; KPU development
• some projects in early development: tutor training & critical thinking
• initial badge design ideas from Marketing

Where would we like to be?