Title: International Center for Leadership in Education
1International Center for Leadership in Education
The Education ChallengePreparing Students For
a Changing WorldAugust 6, 2007
2Skills Gap
3Application Model
- 1. Knowledge in one discipline
- 2. Application within discipline
- 3. Application across disciplines
- 4. Application to real-world predictable
situations - 5. Application to real-world unpredictable
situations
4Change Process
5Education exists in the larger context of society.
6When society changes so too must education if
it is to remain viable!
7Technology
81983 - A Nation at Risk
- E-mail
- Web pages
- Google
- iPODs
- Laptops
- Digital cameras
- Doppler radar
- Cell Phones
- Debit cards
92000
- Blogs
- Wikis
- Tagging
- Text messaging
- MySpace
- Podcasts
- PDAs
- Genetic code
10Millennial-oriented Technology
Blogs
Wikis
Tagging
Instant Messaging
MySpace
Podcasts
11Children Aged 8-14 Help Parents Online
- Email/pictures 38
- Respond to correspondence 36
- Get directions 35
- Help file income tax online 14
12Todays Youth
- Digital Learners
- Multimedia
- Find and manipulate data
- Analyze data and images
13Research
- Donald Roberts - Stanford
- Jordan Grafman National Institute of
Neurological Disorders - Hal Pashler University of California
- Cheryl Grady Rothman Research Center, Toronto
- David Meyer University of Michigan
- Claudia Knooz Duke
14Multitasking
- Toggling
- Prefrontal Cortex
- Pew Research
15Kids live in an iPhone World !
16Education is a chalkboard world
17- Information Technology
- Processing
- Communications
18 19SPOT
- Microsoft
- Citizen
- Fossil
- Suunco
20SPOT
- Integrated Projection
- Projection Keyboard
21Projection Keyboard and Projector
22Language Translation
23Translation Goggles
24- Bio Technology
- Biological Science
- Practical Application
25Globalization
26Computer Sales
Computer Manufacturers
Dell Sony Compaq HP IBM Think Pad Apple NEC Gatewa
y Toshiba
Quanta Wispron Asustek Compal Inventec
90
Mainland China Companies
27Globalization
- 9/11
- 11/9
- Information Tech (Work to Worker)
28Cities with 1 Million People
29Challenges
- Technology
- Globalization
- Demographics
30 Start Working End Working Longevity
107
77
62
62
47
21
14
18
1900
2000
2100
31Demographics / Economic
3.0 / 100
1910
4.6 / 100
1946
1.4 1.8 / 100
2000
32Debt
- Federal Budget 2006 Deficit
1.3 trillion
11, 434 per household
516,348
31,000 per year for 75 years
112,403
Source USA Today
33Challenges
- Technology
- Globalization
- Demographics
- Values / Beliefs
34Larger Context
- 1901 24 G.I.
- 1925 45 Silent
- 1946 60 Boomers
- 1961 81 Gen X
- 1982 - Millennial
35Change Process
36International Center for Leadership in Education,
Inc.
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