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The Christian School Movement
in theDigital World
Greg BitgoodSuperintendent, Heritage
Christian Schools
Why 2025?• This date gives us a
target to point towards. It gives us a benchmark for Christian Schools and Associations to begin to implement change in meaningful bites.
• This will be the year that the Kindergarten students who start school in 2013 will finish their Grade 12.
Urgency and Faith• 2025 is sufficiently far off
enough to be well beyond our scope of vision without the help of God and it is sufficiently close enough to be directly affected by decisions we are making today.
• Innovation is no longer just for those who are creative. Innovation is now the necessity.
The Innovation Imperative
“If we don’t innovate – in the private sector and in government – if we don’t find new ways to maximize efficiency and meet our strategic goals, we risk letting big opportunities pass us by – and the cost to our global competitiveness could be severe.”
USA FCC Chairman Julius Genachowksi made this statement in response to a CISCO report predicting 60 fold increase in mobile broadband usage by 2015.
Moore’s Law
Gordon Moore, founder of Intel, based this “law” on the amount of transistors that can be put on a computer chip at relatively the
same size and cost. It has continued to hold true to this day. Every two years, computer power has continued to double and this pace doesn’t seem to be slowing
any time soon. He made this prediction in 1965.
The Doubling
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"The number of transistors incorporated in a chip will approximately double every 24 months."—Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder
The Smaller the BetterCarver Meade, a fellow engineer and contemporary of Gordon Moore discovered:
Microchip Efficiency = (Scale of Reduction)2
“By making things smaller everything gets better simultaneously there is little need for trade offs. The speed of our products goes up the power consumption goes down, system reliably improves by leaps and bounds but especially in the cost of doing things drops as a result of technology.”
Gordon Moore
The Doubling
An Osborne Executive portable computer, from 1982, and an iPhone, released 2007 (iPhone 3G in picture). The Executive weighs 100 times as much, is nearly 500 times as large by volume, costs 10 times as much, and has 100th the clock frequency of the iPhone.
Moore’s Law Grows all Tech
Doubling Times of Various Technological Performance in Months
Doubling Times of Various Technological Performance in Months
Comparing Moore to FlightIn 1978, a commercial flight between New York and Paris cost around $900 and took seven hours. With same exponential growth of Moore’s Law being applied to the airline industry since 1978, that flight would now cost about a penny and take less than one second.
Comparing Moore to a Switch
Because electricity travels a shorter distance in a smaller transistor, smaller transistors mean faster chips. It would take you about 50,000 years to turn a light switch on and off 3 trillion times, but today’s microchip transistors switch on and off that many times each second.
The Future
“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological
criminal.”Albert Einstein
Letter to a friend 1917
Communication Revolution = Social Networks
This revolution has given way to a new digital forum for relationships.
Youtube video on Social Media
CommunicationRevolution
We need to be discipling a generation of communication literate young people.
The HCOS story:
Communication Competencies
Our digital students are communicating in ways we never dreamed of, this will require a new set of competencies:
Informationalism
With the advent of Google we have some of the most powerful tools ever available to mankind!
Informationalism
“Google's mission is to organize the world's information and
make it universally accessible and useful.”
Google’s Corporate Information Webpage
The Wiki Generation
Our students relationship to information is completely changing. How is this changing our educational approach?
Global CitizensHow do we prepare our students for a world that has minimal boarders, global competition for jobs, instant communication to any point on the globe, and a new political reality:
Heritage Global Citizenship Program
The Pedagogical Manifesto
• We are suggesting a document emerges from three conferences to provide:– A Vision for 21st Century Education in the
Christian School movement.– Suggested strategies for schools to
navigate the disruptive change cascading upon culture.
– A set of outcomes that will guide our schools and students into the shifting landscape of the Digital World.
– Purposeful direction that gives reasonable targets of change and innovation.
PTC Report: Skills needed for the 21st Century
• Functional Numeracy and Literacy• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving• Creativity and Innovation• Technological Literacy• Communications and Media Literacy• Collaboration and Teamwork• Personal Organisation• Motivation, Self-Regulation and
Adaptability• Ethics, Civic Responsibility, Cross-Cultural
AwarenessSkills
PTC Report: Pedagogical Vision for the 21st Century
• From Learning Information to Learning to Learn
• From Data to Discovery• From One Size Fits All to Tailored
Learning• From Testing to Assess to Assessing to
Learn• From Classroom Learning to Lifelong
Learning Transformation
PTC Report: Components of a 21st Century System
• A flexible educational path with project-based or integrated learning.
• A blended system that uses classrooms and technology
• Technology to access learning objects and teaching tools.
• Open access to information systems for content and decision making
• Constant feedback and assessment to allow students, parents and teachers to adjust to meet challenges or accommodate progress.
PTC Report: Shifting Roles for 21st Century Education
• From Passive Student to Active Learner
• From Parent as Supporter to Parent as Participant
• From Teacher as Lecturer to Teacher as Guide Shifting
The Futurist Outlook: Education 20111. Class time vs. non-class time
interlaced: self-directed learning becomes most important taught skill of the future.
The Futurist: Education 2011
2. China may be the first country to succeed in educating most of its population through the Internet. – From 2003-2007, China spent about
$1 billion to implement online learning projects in the rural country-side.
The Futurist Outlook: Education 2011
3. Social networking will facilitate a more collaborative form of learning.