With 1.2 billion young people across 120 countries currently at home due to school closures, I began thinking about how I could take my work with out of school youth and apply it to the current turn of events. This presentation highlights ten places for youth and parents to go to advance digital literacy and coding skills.

1. At home with your Kids
due to school closures?
10 fun & engaging ways teens can build digital skills

2. What’s the
current
challenge?
 1.2B+ young people home due to school closures across 120+
countries worldwide
 Tons of content out there to navigate
 Online material is not always fun and engaging
 Digital skills are required for the future of work, yet many lack
meaningful skills
 Computer science seems mystical and scary for many youth
 Girls do not often feel included in computer science programs

3. Step 1:
Test your Digital
Literacy Skills with
Digital Dannelse
Mine is 88%
http://ibm.biz/skill-test
Source: Digital Dannelse

4. Step2:
Adopt a Learning
Framework &Test
YourSkills with the
DQ Institute
http://ibm.biz/dqworld
http://ibm.biz/dqinstitute
Source: DQ Institute

5. Step3:
DemystifyComputerSciencewithCode.org
http://ibm.biz/code-org
Source: Code.org

6. Step 4:
Demystify
Computer
Science with
Scratch
http://ibm.biz/mit-scratch
Source: Scratch from MIT

7. Step 5:
LearnOnline
Safety with
IBM
Source: IBM
http://ibm.biz/letstalksafetech

8. Step 6:
LearnComputer
Science without
aComputer with
CSUnplugged
Source: CS Unplugged
http://ibm.biz/cs-unplugged

9. Step 7:
GainTech&
Professional
SkillswithOpen
P-Tech byIBM
http://ibm.biz/open-p-tech
Source: IBM

10. Step 8:
Learn Enterprise
ComputingSkills
withIBMZ
Source: IBM
http://ibm.biz/masterthemainframe2

11. Step9:
CreateIoTdevices&robotics withmicro:bitbytheBBC
Source: BBC micro:bit
http://ibm.biz/microbit

12. Step 10:
Learn to
Build Mobile
Applications
with MIT
Source: App Inventor from MIT
http://ibm.biz/mit-app-inventor

13. Thank you!
Melissa Sassi
Chief Penguin
IBM Z Global Student Hub
IBM Hyper ProtectAccelerator
@mentorafrika