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Education in a Digital Democracy

Education in a Digital Democracy. Embracing the Change, Challenge, and Charge of the 21st Century. Mark David Milliron President and CEO League for Innovation. Change.

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Education in a Digital Democracy

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  1. Education in a Digital Democracy Embracing the Change, Challenge, and Charge of the 21st Century Mark David MillironPresident and CEOLeague for Innovation

  2. Change “Today we are witnessing the early, turbulent days of a revolution as significant as any other in human history. A new medium of human communications is emerging, one that may prove to surpass all previous revolutions -- the printing press, the telephone, the television, the computer -- in its impact on our economic and social life.”

  3. Change Date Invention Years To Mass Use • 1873 Electricity 46 • 1876 Telephone 35 • 1886 Gas Automobile 55 • 1906 Radio 22 • 1926 Television 26 • 1975 PC 16 • 1983 Mobile Phone 13 • 1994 The Web 4 *Newsweek, 1998

  4. Passive Print Media Audio Media Visual Media Multi-Media Interactive Print Media Audio Media Visual Media Multi-Media Change

  5. Change • Internet has more than 262,000,000 users • Internet traffic doubles every 100 days • Average surfer spends 8.8 hours per week on 9 sites • 1.2 Billion Web Pages (doubles each year – 38 pages a second) • AOL Web sites 35,000,000 unique visitors • AOL 21+ Million paying subscribers • AOL-IM at 43 Million • 1.1 Million concurrent users • 760 Million messages daily (2x the USPS) Nielsen/Net Ratings; Newsweek

  6. Change • A third of “wired” adults shop online • Almost ½ of Americans send an e-mail each day • 36 Million obtain one weekly news story online • Consumer E-Commerce $300 Billion by 2002 • B-to-B E-Commerce $2.7 Trillion by 2004 Newsweek; U.S. Department of Commerce; Forrester; Dertouzos

  7. Change • Customer Relationship Management • Lead to Loyalty MARKETING SALES SERVICE WEB INTERNET PHONE FIELD

  8. “In the next 50 years, schools and universities will change more and more drastically than they have since they assumed their present form more than 300 years ago when they organized themselves around the printed book.” Change • Change in Education Peter Drucker

  9. Change • Change in Higher Education • Over Half of Classes use E-mail • Close to 2 of 5 Use Internet Resources • Approximately 50-80% of students and faculty access the Internet each day • Expansion of “virtual” colleges and universities • “Crescendo in E-Major” *K.C. Green, 1999

  10. Change *Newsweek

  11. Change • The “DotCommies” are coming! • Baby Boom Echo – 88 million strong • 77% could not live w/o their PC • 92% think technology will improve their educational options • Video games to surpass movies • Use for entertainment, learning, communication, shopping • View tech as an appliance – a different level of savvy • Faculty, Administrators, Community

  12. . . . You May Be a DotCommie • If you have two or more e-mail addresses • If you get a nervous tick after not checking your e-mail for more than 12 hours • If you wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and on the way back to bed you check your e-mail • If you can’t sit through an entire movie without having at least one device on your body beep or buzz • If your minister uses PowerPoint • If your first thought after seeing this list is that you’d like to get a copy so you can e-mail it to someone

  13. Change

  14. Challenge • Significant access challenges for minorities and rural areas • Whites are 2x as likely to have Internet access as Blacks and Hispanics • Household Income of $75,000 are 20 times more likely to have access to the Internet *Federal Computer Week, July 1999

  15. Challenge • Majority minority schools lag almost 20% behind the national average in Internet connectivity • Fewer than 39% of low income schools have a classroom with an Internet connection • 17% of 17-year olds are functionally illiterate *NCES

  16. Challenge • The Digital Divide • IT Workforce Shortages • A Nation of Opportunity Reportwww.workforce21.org • Rate of Change • Human Connections • Creating “Successful” Balance

  17. Goals Charge • To be the key community catalyst of learning about, with, and beyond technology.

  18. “The successful professional for the twenty-first century is either a business-savvy technologist or a technology-savvy businessperson.” Charge: Learning About Alan Cooper

  19. Charge: Learning About • Catalyze the Conversation • Become the community access leader • Collaboration with large and small business • Technology literacy to technology savvy • From technology pipelines to cycles (short- and long-term)

  20. Charge: Learning With • Foster Learning Connections • Content • Context • Community

  21. Charge: Learning With • Communication and Collaboration • Dynamic Presentation • Research and Reference • In-Class to In-Home to At-Work • Faculty-Driven to Student-Driven • Emerging Resources • The New Basic Skill

  22. RECRUITING LEARNING SERVICE WEB INTERNET PHONE IN-PERSON Charge: Learning With • Learner-Relationship Management • From Lead to Lifelong Learner!

  23. Charge: Learning Beyond • 21st Century Learning Outcomes • Technology skills (computer literacy, Internet skills, retrieving and managing information via technology) • Communication skills(reading, writing, speaking, listening) • Computation skills(understanding and applying mathematical concepts and reasoning, analyzing and using numerical data)

  24. Charge: Learning Beyond • 21st Century Learning Outcomes • Critical thinking and problem solving skills (evaluation, analysis, synthesis, decision making, creative thinking) • Information management skills (collecting, analyzing, and organizing information from a variety of sources) • Interpersonal skills (teamwork, relationship management, conflict resolution, workplace skills)

  25. Charge: Learning Beyond • 21st Century Learning Outcomes • Personal skills (ability to understand and manage self, management of change, learning to learn, personal responsibility, aesthetic responsiveness, wellness) • Community skills(ethics; citizenship; diversity/pluralism; local, community, global, environmental awareness)

  26. Education in a Digital Democracy Embracing the Change, Challenge, and Charge of the 21st Century Mark David MillironPresident and CEOLeague for Innovation

  27. Connecting with the League • www.league.org • Searchable Database, Publications, Resources, Transformational Learning Connections—LeagueTLC • Milliron@league.org • Conferences and Events • Conference on Information TechnologyAnaheim, CA, November 15-18, 2000 • InnovationsAtlanta, February 28 – March 2, 2001

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