ALTP News August 26, 2000
Edited by Richard Brincefield

Recent ALTP News

Reminder: ALTP BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING (OPEN)

Wednesday, September 27, 2000
7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. 

• Phoenix: US WEST, 3033 N. Third St., Room 208.09
• Tucson: US WEST, 333 E. Wetmore, Room 323

Dial-in attendance: contact tkraver@qwest.net

ACTION AGENDA         Saturday,  August 26, 2000

Arizona Learning Technology Partnership, Inc.
Governors Strategic Partnership for Economic Development

ALTP Board Meeting Report

The August 23, 2000 board meeting was chaired by Mark Goldstein and reported by Mary Johnson. Mark described the first APNE E-Learning Hot Team meeting – standing room only, team appeared to have heard the ALTP message from several of the comments made. The Hot Team may be focusing on distance learning as the only component of E-learning although there is awareness that E-learning is more than that. E-Learning was not defined at the meeting.

The hot team is looking for 2-3 "breakthrough technologies" as their bottom line issues. Mark believes that teacher education needs to be one of those issues. Mark shared Ted's thought that learning technology should be a GSPED cluster on its own. [Oris Friesen is champion for..] Arizona as test bed for learning technology, maybe a learning technology institute, within a technology transfer system.

The next E-Learning Hot Team meeting will be at Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management on Sept. 22 from 2-5. Based on the ALTP Strategic Plan the main action steps to support the E-Learning Hot Team in an organized manner are:

1. Contacting all ALTP lead associates;
2. Communicate a summary of the ATLP strategic position, and determine where they motivated to contribute to developing Breakthrough ideas.
3. Communicate directly to Hot Team members and leadership;
4. Actively participate in the Web based Breakthrough idea discussion.

If you want to influence the E-Learning Hot Team via ALTP then give me (Ted) a call or email, and we will work together.

The intellectual-creative focus for the next couple of weeks is the Brainstorming Forum. I have calls and emails working to determine if non-E-Learning Hot Team members can access and contribute to the forum. Either way, review the following sections on the forum and if you have a comment for any section I can forward it for you.

E-LEARNING HOT TEAM FORUM SECTIONS on the ADVANTIV Hosted Forum

http://www.rfpforum.com

Accessibility

Accessibility

Breakthrough Ideas Focused on Adults (Post K-12

New Learning Tools/Access for Adults

Student Achievement

Breakthrough Ideas focused on Alignment of Stakeholders

Alignment of public and private entities (i.e., an e-learning cluster)

Alignment of Public Institutions

Breakthrough Ideas focused on Teacher Development

Alter current structures to work better with E-Learning

Professional Development

Breakthrough Ideas focused on Youth/K-12

New Learning Tools/Environment for Youth

Comprehensive

"Cradle-to-Grave" Approach

Individualized Learning

Meet the educational needs of all learners not just self-motivated

ALTP COMMENT and RESULTING BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS:

The results of our 1998 strategic plan focused on the K-12 technology effective classroom and emerging learning technology. The breakthrough ideas in the plan can be merged with what we have learning over the past two years and initial results of the APNE E-Learning Hot Team process. The elements of these integrative ideas lie within the E-Learning Forum above, but have not coalesced. There they are:

1. Rapidly complete the adoption of E-Learning technology in the K-12 classroom to a minimum of 1 computer for 4 students, eventually reaching 1:1, broadband Internet access, full technical support, complete set of curriculum based instructional software, and professionally developed teacher that integrates technology into curriculum and transforms her practice. Complete E-Learning adoption in post secondary education and training operations.
2. Develop world leading teacher-trainer-professor professional development system to meet the needs of E-Learning transformation Arizona’s formal education system at all levels. Delivery this professional development education globally, creating a major new public-private industry sector in Arizona.
3. Create an E-Learning technology research environment in Arizona that will attract funding, research laboratories and research based companies as the entrepreneurial heart for emerging E-Learning technology.
4. Design, fund and staff an E-Learning economic cluster organization under GSPED to advocate for (1), organize (2) and manage (3) to assure that Arizona is one of the leading E-Learning technology players in the emerging $100 billion market.

Lets hear from you.

Ted

WISDOM IN A FEW WORDS

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

-- Walter Bagehot

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

-- Ralph W. Sockman

Note: Some of above reports were edited or paraphrased to shorten them to this newsletter format. Ted the Ed.

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