Technology is The
Global Education Equalizer. Competitive
advantage will accrue to the country that best applies its
capabilities to raise its students' desire to learn, and
their teachers' ability to teach. Leadership must
come from all levels of government, but implementation
needs to be driven and delivered locally.
The World
of the 21st Century
• Increasing global population with greater demands on
limited resources
• An increasing numbers of school age children, and
an
increasing number of adults over 60
• Ease of access to global sources of information at lower
cost
• Remote business ownership and management, and
multi-national employers
• Increased economic competition from an
increasing number of
countries
• Increasing links between global trade and economic and
political stability
• Accelerating use of telecommunications and computer
based systems in all aspects of daily life
• Increased dependence on technology in support of
military strength
• Over a billion students in K-12 schools world-wide (but
only 50 million in the US)
To Successfully Respond to these Challenges and
Assure Continued US Prosperity & Leadership We Require:
• Pro-active leadership, a highly educated populace, life
long learning, comfort with technology and
personal
willingness to suggest and accept change.
• Improved student outcome and a continuing increase in
the number of students who attend and graduate from
college
• Increased interest in science, technology,
engineering and mathematics (STEM), and related
subjects at all levels of schooling
• A national willingness to shift limited resources
to support education at all levels
Today’s Students Will Make the Decisions that Guide Our
Nation’s Future
...and technology properly and efficiently integrated into
the curriculum can provide the incremental advantage that
our
students will need to adapt to and excel in a globally
competitive environment.
Our National Challenge
• Increase public support at all levels for an increased
and sustained investment in education - Reinforce why it
is necessary!
• Increase opportunities for adult education (with emphasis on
language, math, financial, and job retraining skills)
• Define our education objectives in a way
that allows
quantitative measurements of success and failure, and
international comparison
• Emphasize student needs and outcomes; Use
technology to decrease administrative overhead
• Adopt technology where appropriate; increase its
use where validated by data
• Integrate experiences of the business
community into the education community without adversely
affecting the attainment of the education goals
Education is a Global Offering -
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