5 skills Children need for future workforce

The changing time is demanding a lot from children; it’s not about their academic qualification that helps in fetching a good job but a sound personality accompanied with skills like leadership, agility, persistence, initiative and inquisitiveness that plays an integral role in making a person stand at a decent position in life. The importance of these skills is not limited to finding a right job but succeeding in life and fighting the way out during critical situations demands an excellence in these skills.

Taking a cue from this, we now have a curriculum that has introduced various programs that emphasize on enhancing and nurturing these skills in students at their budding stage. Prime reason for this is that students at this age are very vulnerable; they can be easily moulded and can be taught different things. Gamion is an initiative in the direction of using technology to nurture skills like leadership, persistence, agility, and curiosity in children. Our programs have been designed in a manner that it not only entices students but also engross them completely.

In times like today where the world is very competitive, everyone needs to stand out. Gamion game creation entails all the required programs that collaborate together to enhance the leadership skills in students. In this process, students work together and in order to successfully complete the process of game creation they need to be led by an efficient person. However, the process of game creation requires effort and motivation and here comes the role of an efficient leader who can keep the team together working towards their goal.  Hence, game creation activities lay the keystone for inculcating leadership skill from a very nascent stage.

This is an important skill set, whether it a person is at a tender age or a grown-up, adaptability is something which makes him/her stand strong. The game creation activity focuses on bringing a group of student together and works together, they learn the art of collaboration and at the same time, it helps in nurturing the ability to adapt in a different kind of environment and with different kinds of people. Moreover, it also helps in behavioral adjustment, development of social skills like relationship building.

The time ahead is going to be very challenging for children, unlike their predecessors, they will have to face stiff competition and a demanding job. In order for them to be resilient and be competent enough, they need to be persistence in their act. Game creation helps in developing this skill from a nascent stage. Creating a simple game is also not that simple, you will fail to assemble things, bring resources together and make it function, and hence it will nurture the quality of persistence but with fun. Children will not feel coerced and at the same time, they will learn to persistently work towards their goal achievement i.e. game creation.

Today company needs people who can take initiative and lead by example. Game creation helps children discuss their opinion and ideas. Moreover, it enhances their ability to have an out of the box approach. It pushes them to come forward and discuss their ideas in an open forum. Not only has this made them an initiator but also helps in developing confidence.

There is an old adage,  curiosity is the mother of invention, and children are filled with curiosity. Often while following the traditional teaching methodology, we curb this feeling by feeding children with pre-defined protocols and ideas. Game creation helps in boosting the curiosity level; it makes children experiment with their ideas, thoughts and practically apply it in real life. This not only boosts the inquisitiveness but at the time same makes them learn from their experience.

Gamion comprehends the idea of the overall development of children and hence, we have prepared this program which has been architected and designed for children between the age group of 7- 18 years. The game creation activities have been designed as per the age group and focus on nurturing each of the aforementioned skills. We wish to prepare students for tomorrow and hence have envisaged this program that will make learning fun.