Facilitating a Total System Approach
to Education Technology Planning and Implementation

 
 
 
 

The Global Challenge

The quality of the American education system and its ability to stimulate the potential of all students will have the single most significant long term impact on the economic, military and political strength of the United States. Less than a total national national and personal commitment to this imperative is not an option.
 

Technology is The Global Education Equalizer.  Quality teachers and courses can be offered regardless of location.  The classroom can now be wherever communications exist.  This is a watershed time for education. The teaching and learning process of prior centuries is being challenged, and change is not always being easily accepted.   Competitive advantage will accrue, as it always has, to the country that best applies its capabilities to the challenges at hand. 

Today, a universal challenge deals with the significant change in demographics and all that this impacts for future generations.  The nation that can raise its students' desire to learn, and their teachers' ability to transfer knowledge will maintain a significant advantage over others.  Leadership must come from all levels of government, but exciting the student, the parent, the educators and the community needs to be driven and delivered locally.


The World of the 21st Century

•  Increasing global population with greater demands on and for limited resources

•  An increasing number of school age children, and an increasing number of adults over 60, resulting in a potential inter-generational conflict over limited financial resources

•  Ease of access to global sources of information at an ever decreasing 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...or possibly instability

•  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.

The 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 -

 

 

Organization of American States http://www.oas.org (search:education)
UNESCO http://www.unesco.org/education/educprog/

http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev.php?ID=5728_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC

Commonwealth of Learning http://www.col.org
Worldbank http://www.worldbank.org/worldlinks/english/index.html
National Center for Education Statistics -
International Comparisons in Education

 

http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/international/

 


11/16/11

 

 

 

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