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
“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.”
Change
Date
•1873
•1876
•1886
•1906
•1926
•1975
•1983
•1994
*Newsweek, 1998
Invention
Years To Mass Use
Electricity
46
Telephone
35
Gas Automobile
55
Radio
22
Television
26
PC
16
Mobile Phone
13
The Web
4
Change
• Passive
• Interactive
– Print Media
– Print Media
– Audio Media
– Audio Media
– Visual Media
– Visual Media
– Multi-Media
– Multi-Media
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
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
Change
• Customer Relationship Management
– Lead to Loyalty
MARKETING
WEB
PHONE
FIELD
SALES
SERVICE
Change
• Change in Education
“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.”
Peter Drucker
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
Change
*Newsweek
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
. . . You May Be a DotCommie
 If you have two or more e-mail addresses
 If you get a nervous tick after not checking your email 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
Change
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
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
Challenge
• The Digital Divide
• IT Workforce Shortages
– A Nation of Opportunity Report
www.workforce21.org
• Rate of Change
• Human Connections
• Creating “Successful” Balance
Charge
• To be the key community
catalyst of learning
about, with, and beyond
technology.
Charge: Learning About
“The successful professional
for the twenty-first century is
either a business-savvy
technologist or a technologysavvy businessperson.”
Alan Cooper
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)
Charge: Learning With
• Foster Learning Connections
– Content
– Context
– Community
Charge: Learning With
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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
Charge: Learning With
• Learner-Relationship Management
– From Lead to Lifelong Learner!
RECRUITING
WEB
PHONE
IN-PERSON
LEARNING
SERVICE
Charge: Learning Beyond
•
st
21
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)
Charge: Learning Beyond
•
st
21
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)
Charge: Learning Beyond
•
st
21
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)
Education in a Digital Democracy
Embracing the Change, Challenge, and
Charge of the 21st Century
Mark David Milliron
President and CEO
League for Innovation
Connecting with the League
• www.league.org
– Searchable Database, Publications, Resources,
Transformational Learning Connections—
LeagueTLC
• [email protected]
• Conferences and Events
– Conference on Information Technology
Anaheim, CA, November 15-18, 2000
– Innovations
Atlanta, February 28 – March 2, 2001