The world of digital and tech is changing. Fast. Today’s employers are looking for more than just practical and technical skills; they want well-rounded individuals who possess the human-centric skills to adapt with the pace of digital transformation.
With an already packed curriculum, preparing students with those skills can be a challenge, but Work Ready is here to help.
We are offering a mix of free virtual bootcamps and in-person workshops across the academic year for students aged 11-14. These fully facilitated sessions will support your students to get to grips with why digital skills are important for every role, meet some of our inspiring colleagues and start exploring the power of ethical tech innovation.
What’s more, our curriculum-linked lesson modules on AI, Cybersecurity, Healthcare and Internet of Things (IoT), can be used in the classroom to bring curriculum learning to life. Students will explore how these emerging areas are important for our every day lives, watch videos of our own colleagues working in these areas and take on various project-based activities.
Access to opportunity is important to us, so we use different metrics to identify and prioritise schools in areas of higher need. If you are a teacher and would like to be notified about future events, please reach out to us at the email address listed below.
In-person workshops take place at a BT office near you. Through engaging practical activities, students will explore and articulate their skills, network with our very own BT Group colleagues, and put their learning into practise with the Work Ready design challenge.
Virtual bootcamps offer an intensive introduction to digital skills over 2 hours, streamed right to your school. Fully facilitated by an expert and including an opportunity for Q&A with BT Group colleagues, whole year groups can join to see what the future of tech holds and explore the role they could play in it.
To register your interest in joining a Work Ready event, please email us at workready@bt.com.
Co-created with teachers, our project-based modules offer your students the opportunity to bolster their digital skills through innovative and practical activities across four modules: AI, Cybersecurity, Healthcare and Internet of Things.
Each module includes four lessons with practical activities and real-world examples from BT Group colleagues, helping to demystify an ever-evolving industry and the importance of digital skills for everyone. We've also highlighted the curriculum-links for you, helping you slot it into an existing scheme of learning with ease.
Take a deep dive into the subject everyone’s talking about. Through interactive tasks and the voice of BT Group colleagues, students will explore the basics of AI; debate its pros and cons; and put their knowledge to the test as they build their own chatbot.
A deeper look at how BT Group works with the NHS and keeps the health sector connected through innovative and cutting-edge products. Touching on the all-important topic of mental health, students will use their empathy, emotional intelligence and critical thinking skills to create an animation.
The ‘Internet of Things’ is everywhere and your students are about to discover how seamlessly it fits into their day-to-day lives. They’ll explore its ethical considerations, too – as they hear from BT Group's IoT experts and get hands on experience.
Bring the world of cybercrime to life and help students understand how to keep themselves and others safe online. With input from BT Group colleagues, they’ll learn about exciting careers in cybersecurity, before creating their own digital awareness campaign.
Providing the right support for your students means having confidence in your own knowledge. Take a look at some of the most frequently asked questions to boost your digital skills knowledge.
With the pace of change in technological advancements, young people could well go into roles that don’t yet exist. By practising and articulating their digital skills now, we can prepare them for that future and all the opportunities it offers.
Fostering human-centric skills alongside technical proficiency is the most effective route to a workforce that is digitally literate and equipped to navigate the future complexities and transformations of the workplace.
Through interactive in-person workshops and intensive virtual bootcamps, students will understand the role of digital skills in any career through inspiring role models, articulate their own skills with examples, and put those skills in practise through a digital challenge.
Additional lesson modules are designed to build curriculum-linked technical capabilities like managing devices, platforms and apps. Embedded in the modules are real-world examples of tech innovation and opportunities to hear from a diverse range of BT Group colleagues who will bring each topic to life.
There are two types of Work Ready events, in-person and virtual. In-person events are held at BT Group offices across the UK and aimed at schools within 45mins travel time from the office. Virtual bootcamps are regional and open to a wider pool of schools. They work great for full year groups or multiple classes. Access to opportunity is important to us, so we use different metrics to identify and prioritise schools in areas of higher need.
You can attend multiple events too if you have different groups of students who would benefit from the opportunity, there’s no limit! Register your interest today and be one of the first to hear about the next events.
To register your interest in joining a Work Ready event, please email us at workready@bt.com.
Led by an expert facilitator, our in-person workshops are a full-day showcase of digital skills in the real world. Through meeting and networking with BT Group colleagues, students will understand the varying ways digital skills are actively used in the workplace, get a peak into office life and take part in their very own design challenge, putting all those skills into action. Throughout the day, they’ll develop their oracy, teamwork and problem-solving skills amongst many others. Workshops run from 10am to 3.15pm.
Our virtual bootcamps are intensive, inspiring and positive opportunities for students to begin their journey in understanding why digital skills matter. Run by an expert facilitator, they'll get to meet BT Group colleagues, ask all those burning questions and discover the innovative tech that is set to shape our future. We’ll also leave you with your own educator guide packed with additional activities for the classroom including our digital challenge. Each bootcamp will feature different colleagues so you can attend as many as you want. The bootcamp runs from 9am-11am with a short break.
The four topics cover key curriculum learning as well as areas in which BT Group has excelled in innovation. We champion a world powered by technology and strive to connect for good and are here to inspire your students to see the role they could play in this exciting future. It’s not just for students interested in tech, everyone plays a part. These modules are perfect to use after attending our in-person workshops and virtual bootcamps, or standalone. They’ll help your students build upon the learnings they achieve around digital skills and inspire them to delve deeper into these four key topics.
Whilst the lesson modules are most closely aligned with computing curricular, the resources are open to all specialisms, in particular the project-based learning challenge which helps develop wider human skills beyond the technical abilities.
We also have fact files and videos featuring our own colleagues and their personal work journeys. Ideal to inspire students to explore roles they may not have heard of or considered before.
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