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News August 19, 2000
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ACTION AGENDA Saturday, August 19, 2000Arizona Learning Technology Partnership, Inc. ALL INVITED TO AUGUST BOARD MEETING: Our board meeting strategize on how to bring the 3 ALTP breakthrough ideas into focus for the E-Learning Hot Team Development. 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, August 23, 2000 1 . Statewide teacher, professor and workforce trainer professional development system that transforms professional practice of integrating learning technology into their curriculum at the most effective level. Serves 60,000 Arizona professionals so well at it creates its own economic bonanza as the schools and providers within the system attract the huge world wide market of under-trained teachers. 2. A learning-technology research transfer system scoops emerging technology from Arizona and laboratories around the world to drive rapidly forming and growing Arizona companies. Arizona becomes the hub of the learning technology industry as it mushrooms from $3 billion to $300 billion. 3. The Arizona Learning Technology Economic and Societal Cluster is the stakeholder group which plans, links, networks, organizes and advocates for the creation and adoption of the most effective emerging learning technology to dramatically improve all aspects of formal and informal learning for all Arizona citizens. In parallel, a synergetic forcet is the driver behind the astounding growth of the software, hardware, media and Web based learning-technology companies which as an Arizona cluster dominate the Arizona economy by 2020. Phoenix: US West 3033 N 3rd St. (Third and Earle ) Tucson: US West 333 E. Wetmore, room 323 Again, thank you US West for providing this video conference site. TWO REPORTS: First Monday’s E-Learning Hot Team and then the prior Friday’s APNE Task Force meeting.
APNE E-LEARNING AND NEW TALENT HOT TEAM FIRST MEETING August 14, 2000 Thunderbird (AGSIM) in Glendale, AZ. E-Learning Hot Team: mailto: E-Learning@azcommerce.com Http://www.azcommerce.com/neweconomy/e-learninghotteam.htm Roy Herberger of the American Graduate School of International Management and Gregg Holmes of Cox Cable co-chaired the meeting. Over 75 attendees packed the room as APNE consultants Doug Henton and John Melville of Collaborative Economics and Mary Jo Waits of Morrison Institute presented e-learning staff work and lead the group through planning processes. The conspicuous absence among the business, government, college, university and training professionals, were a teacher, principle, superintendent or technology director from K-12 education. Roy Herberger welcomed the participants and described how the globally competitive distance learning system use at Thunderbird serves hundreds of enrolled students and alumni in South America. Gregg Holmes gave a charge to the group to rise above the clutter and create 1st class and competitive E-Learning breakthrough initiatives and plans. Engage the public and private sector in partnership with a big bold mission that will fundamentally differentiate Arizona. Doug Henton said develop the opportunity with urgency, since E-Learning is at the top of the list of Hot Teams. Connectivity Hot Team is fundamental and provides accessibility for all Hot Teams including E-Government; Knowledge, Entrepreneurship and Capital; and Communities. John Melville presented a summary of the E-Learning study (see web site above): E-Learning Hot Team Best Practices Paper. Breakthroughs:
CONCERNS AND IDEAS The meeting participants then generated a flow of input and ideas: UofA has a first mover synchronous new method (from Dayton Ohio) for face to face distance learning. Datasoft has a subscription base for training on information technology. www.Goroundtable.net. The Literacy Company is developing technology in this area, has testing relationship with Ford. ASU has a major enhancement to its distance learning system that delivers degree completion to employers including Intel and Motorola. KnowledgeNet is providing information technology tool training to all of ASU over the net. Rio Salado is now offering all its courses in the Web It has 25,000 students and is growing at 45% a year. Companion bachelor degrees are offered. The community college statewide Arizona Learning System network is coming on line and will connect to K-12 schools. The Bill Gates foundation is funding millions of dollars for librarians in or traveling to rural areas to train Arizona residents to work on-line. Arizona Science Center and many other such entities statewide are networked, providing hands-on integration with distance learning like the undersea Jason Project. The GSPED High Tech Cluster is providing project based learning with K-12 schools. Horizon Learning Center (Cox is sponsor) and charter school is providing state of art technology learning support for students and also community on weekends. They also train 50+ teachers from all over Arizona in the summer. SofTrain is developing tools to route and track students, open source, will be available for schools next year. Knowledge on supply train and purchasing management, www.NAPM-knowledgecenter.org Learn.com is partnering with the courts. Pima county is heavily involved with distance learning. AVNET is interested and supportive. Arizona's High-Tech Talent partnership is a player in workforce http://www.azhttp.net NAUnet started with statewide video conference distance learning and has now expanded into Web casting with streamed asynchronous and University House channel on Dish Network for Web enhanced TV. Critical issue is individual learning style. Web enabled learning must know the student and provide student centered learning support. Between 2005 and 2010 there will be a Holodeck like learning system to provide agile bank of talent with effective and efficient training. Soft skills are easy. Much tougher to train other skills. Each participant wrote one breakthrough E-Learning concept on large post-it notes. The top affinity groups: (19) K-12 Youth: early education, skills, individual learning outcomes, technology system integration in classroom, overcoming barriers, funding, meeting standards, and enabling technology supported learning. (17) Adult Learning: in life experiences, access provides ever present, 95% access to Web, close the digital gap. Life long learning system, literacy. (9) Teacher Professional Development: comprehensive system to serve all needs, certification, integrate technology into teaching, transform teaching-learning, delivery by E-Learning system, coalition of business, education and government to develop system, professional development for professors, trainers as well as teachers. (6) Post Secondary Break down walls, virtual university, down with turf issues, down with geographic franchises, incentives. (4) E-Learning Economic Cluster, research based, e-learning technology businesses, $2 billion in 2005, $10 billion in 2010. (3) E-Learning Infrastructure (being addressed by Connectivity Hot Team) (2) Misc, not in any grouping. COMMENTS FROM PARTICIPANTS Change from push to pull, from teaching to learning, from selling to buying. Must have for basis of life in the new century. Do not automate old stuff, not do poor practice more efficiently. When infrastructure and technology content is in place and all are involved, who is the teacher? Integrate informal and formal education around a motivation driver. Why spent hundreds of $millions on new K-12 schools and bringing old schools up to the 20th century standard, when they will be obsolete in a few years? Home learning is growing rapidly, lets invest in E-Learning. Where are librarians? Answer: sitting across the table (Betty Marcoux Info Science UofA) We need to fix the schools first by implementing the best non-E-Learning practices with adequate funding. Need survey of NAU, ASU, UofA, and community colleges, and employers, find skills needed (math-science, nurses, engineers, etc.) and current E-Learning capability and then build distance learning to meet the real needs. Need opposite approach, need creative, visionary, adaptive entrepreneur type of process, not a deterministic step by step approach (my thought but not called on Ted the ed.) Must move beyond traditional outcomes including those reflected in mandatory state tests, and develop values over the entire range of Maslow’s hierarchy. Develop really expert learning centers. We are all stating from different points at the low slopes as we climb up this E-Learning mountain. The application of information technology to learning is a very complex process and the research is in the initial stages. It may be decades before it matures. The most advanced application is for aircrew training, with $10’s of millions of research each year for past decades. This very limited, specialized area of work force training research has many, many more questions than verified learning technology theories, although the E-Training has been a large success. Means big opportunity for research based E-learning products. Need global goals for students, workers, and adults to address international competition. Look to future and get elements of where work force needs to be, and implement to plan. Internet is disintermediating the value chain everywhere, must embrace it for learning, and then get in front to benefit from opportunities. Will have 4 to 5 careers, and live many more productive decades. Before information and schools were at parity. Now, vastly more information, teachers need special skills to make the Internet work for them. Education will change to learning centric. Must remove barriers and develop teachers. Huge content tie-in as radically new forms of technology continue to emerge. Change the way we do business, will change the way we learn. E-Learning is not limiting, need industry cluster to fully exploit.
GREG HOLMES CREATED A MISSION STATEMENT E-Learning is both sufficient and pervasive throughout all sectors of society: teachers, learners and business; in a world class competitive way. [This mission seems to cover all bases including teacher professional development, the emergence of an economic cluster, and research on learning technology. Ted the .ed]. Second Meeting: Develop strategies and implementation plans for breakthrough ideas. The 2nd meeting will be September 21 from 1:00 to 4:00 and probably at the same place. Third and Last Meeting: Finalize the action plans. APNE TASK FORCE MEETING: FLAGSTAFF LAST FRIDAY The following is a short summary of my notes that reflect E-Learing content and issues. The task force was polled on Issues, ideas, thoughts on New Eve Ross Most of us are the same color and age , how to reach out to all populations? Paige Websters Connectivity, Connectivity, Connectivity C3; Stephanie McKinney, Ditto?; Pat Myers, Concerned about preparing young people and human capital. John Wettaw. How to tie universities in on this, lots to offer like telemedicine, to tie business, universities and biosciences; Robert Gonzales: Inclusion. Leading in economic growth but also leading in poverty, dropout, and teen age pregnancy. Needed to get Leon Panetta to come to state with his message. Linda Capuano: Increase quality of live to keep and attract good citizens; Tom Browning: Training and education of our people?; John Kelly: Transform public organizations, not just a façade; Jeanette Harrison: How to move fast, population cannot wait; Larry Aldrich; State and private sectors have the courage to execute for massive changes. Jackie Vieh: Fascinating, but goal is to increase prosperity for all areas and people. Doug Henton: Hot Team Creative and Fast, three meetings 1. Sort through breakthrough initiatives. 2. Strategies 3. Action plans CONNECIVITY HOT TEAM REPORT Assessment will have an initial scan will try to leverage other efforts. For example, will access School Facilities Board has standard for connectivity. Has 8 students per computer (50,000 new for 800,000 students) plus full connectivity. Homes are more private and connectivity is difficult to determine. Where people live and how they will live will be effected by connectivity. Peter Woog is doing gap analysis that will include what services are to be planned for the future. Text to 2-way video have much different needs. Expects that E-Learning will drive bandwidth needs. Barbara Leff Everyone to have access. K-12 and kids will lead the way, will teach parents. Many of the participants then took part in the 2-way full direct video conference "Town Hall" with 23 other sites through out Arizona.
SIMULATION AND TRAINING AS AN ECONOMIC CLUSTER As home of the National Center for Simulation, Orlando boasts more than 150 simulator-related companies. At the heart of the industry is University of Central Florida's Institute for Simulation and Training (IST). At IST, cutting-edge training and simulation systems for the military is developed. Research is conducted in the areas of flight and emergency response training, as well as computer animation and instruction. The commercialization of simulation technology has spurred the growth of the industry in Orlando. Simulator companies here are involved in everything from theme park rides to virtual reality games to medical training programs and more. Complementing this industry is a strong computer software base. The Orlando region is home to more than 200 computer software development companies that provide systems for a wide range of applications, including banking, accounting, medical, legal, and simulation-based training. Lockheed Martin Information Systems, Real 3D, Science Applications International Corp. and Silicon Graphics are among the region's top simulator companies. Leading software developers include Convergys, Veritas, HTE, Fiserv and Phoenix International. [note: 50 years ago Orlando formed a partnership with the Army-Navy simulation research center. Today the results speak for themselves. But Orlando is not satisfied. They have just committed to building a 30,000 square foot facility to further research and local commercialization of learning technologies. We could consider supporting the Air Force simulation research laboratory in Mesa at Gateway Airpark in a like manner for economic development. Ted the Ed. ]
KANSAS EDUCATORS TURN TO THE WEB TO CREATE A UNIQUE 'VIRTUAL' SCHOOL The Basehor-Linwood School District in Kansas is using the Internet to reach out to home schoolers, providing the guidance of public school teachers, the validation of state standardized tests and the purchasing power of a large public school. The district's Virtual Charter School (http://www.ieminc.org/) offers a cost-effective way to teach at home while still maintaining the accountability of a public school serving students in kindergarten through 12th grade via an online independent study program guided by full-time school district teachers. Parents pay a one-time $20 deposit for an iMac and a $40 annual textbook fee. [Replace very high cost bricks and mortar with less expensive and more effective learning supported by technology. My what a unique idea! Ted the Ed.] [SOURCE: CyberTimes, AUTHOR: Rebecca Weiner (rweiner@nytimes.com)] (http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/08/cyber/education/16education.html)
NO LECTURES OR TEACHERS, JUST SOFTWARE and GBS Dr Roger Schank, director of the Institute for Learning Sciences at Northwestern University, wants to use technology to overhaul the entire education system. "The computer is our Trojan mouse," he said. "It allows us to get our foot in the door to do something radical and difficult." Through his company, Cognitive Arts, Dr Schank has developed more than 100 software-bases education programs that programs combine the look of high-tech video games with a Mission Impossible-style narrative. A course in biology, for instance, might challenge students to stop a worldwide virus outbreak. The aim is to get students to delve into a course's volumes of academic information, including hours of videotape of experts in a field related to the program. "The value of the computer is that it allows kids to learn by doing," he said. "People don't learn by being talked at. They learn when they attempt to do something and fail. Learning happens when they try to figure out why." The goal-based scenarios (GBS) Dr Schank believes, get kids excited. Read some criticism and support for his approach at the URL below. [I have been a couple of meetings with Dr. Schank. He has a very focused and energetic vision. That is why he was also able to create the very large earning Science Center at Northwestern University with many $millions of funding from Andersen Consulting and the military. Ted the Ed.] [SOURCE: New York Times (D6), AUTHOR: Joshua Green] http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/08/circuits/articles/10prof.html WISDOM IN A FEW WORDS If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. -- Walt Whitman Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein Note: Some of above reports were edited or paraphrased to shorten them to this newsletter format. Ted the Ed. The ALTP News/Action Agenda is produced by the Arizona Learning Technology To subscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU with the message To sign off the list, send email to LISTSERV@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU with the
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