20 Million Minds Foundation

By Dean Florez, President

My Agenda today:

The 20 Million Minds Foundation

Students: Digital Natives and Immigrants

Content: From Paper to Pixel

Web 2.0: Student Grazing Grounds

Push the Refresh Button

TIf Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populated in the world, ahead of

the United States.

500 BILLION MINUTES PER MONTH

(last year it was ONLY 150 Billion minutes spent on Facebook per

month)

China 1.35BIndia 1.14BFacebook 500MUnited States 300M

24 Hours. The amount of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.2 Billion. The number of YouTube videos viewed per day.

4 Billion. The number of images hosted on Flickr.That’s 13 times more than the Library of Congress.

27 Million. The average number of “tweets” per day on Twitter.7 Hours. The time it took for LeBron James to amass first 150,000

Twitter followers.

A power shift is underway and a tough new business rule is emerging…….

…Harness the new collaboration or perish.

Those that fail to hit the refresh button will find themselves isolated—cutoff from rapidly changing networks that share, mesh, adapt and update knowledge to create value.

The 20 Million Minds Foundation Embrace mass collaboration and

sharing. Support open educational resources to

lower the cost of books for students. Aim for student-centric learning and

assessment based on personalized learning platforms.

Believe in leveraging disruptive Web 2.0 technologies to lower barriers of access and affordability.

Open Source Education Resources

MeshBook

Virtual Community

Colleges

Our Three Initiatives

Customized Books and Courseware

Agnostic Platform

Faculty adoption based on search, find, create, and pay.

OER push toward affordability

MeshBook

T “Students currently enjoy powerful

technology that continuously

assesses skill and interest and customizes

content delivery. Unfortunately, it

occurs after school when they play

games.”

whatever

whenever

wherever

multi-task

networked

trans-media navigators

crowd wisdom

specific information

limited availability

institutional access

single focus

proprietary users

proprietary platform users: books

expert driven

Digital Native Digital Immigrant

Static content transformed by dynamic participation

Rise of personalized

learning leveraged off

instructors and students

Emerging Trends: Paper to Pixel The Future is Mobile Phones, tablets, laptops merge on cloud computing

Open Educational Resources Movement finds its business model. OLI, Obama Administration, Non-Profit On-Line Learning and

Semantic Search

Rise of Value-Added Multimedia Content Bonus content, format clarity, discount pricing, rise of apps

Container-less Education Content shifts to smaller, autonomous pieces and rise of more

content publishing tools

Student Grazing on the New Content Farms

WEB 2.0THE NEW STUDENT

LITERACIES

Collaboration & Networking

Play

Performance

Simulation

Appropriation

Multitasking

Collective Intelligence

Judgment

Networking

Negotiation

Trans-media Navigation

Self created curriculum

e-portfolio on exit