EdTech AustinThe Great Debate: Technology & Systems

27 May 2015@HalSpeed @TACSEd

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Jobs Shifting in the Digital Era

Agrarian Workers(farmers) Industrial Workers

(manufacturing) Creative/Digital Workers(knowledge & technology)

Source: Richard Florida, Rise of the Creative Class (2002) and Dan Taylor (2013)

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Index of Changing Work Tasks in the U.S. Economy 1960-2009

Source: http://content.thridway.org/publications/714/Dancing-With-Robots.pdf

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The Cone of Learning Experience

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Source: http://www.hippasus.com/rrpweblog/Source: http://www.litandtech.com/2013/11/turning-samr-into-tech-what-models-are.html

Not Simply a Technology Problem

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A Systems Problem

Inertia

Hysteresis

Habits

Reminder

RoutineReward

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State Government

Principals and Administrators

Teachers & Counselors

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Public Education is a Complex System

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10Source: http://www.weforum.org/reports/new-vision-education-unlocking-potential-technology

to Know to Valueto Act

11Source: http://www.weforum.org/reports/new-vision-education-unlocking-potential-technology

EdTech Opportunities

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4. Digital/ICT LiteracyAbility to use and create technology-based content, including finding and sharing information, answering questions, interacting with other people and computer programming

ICT – information and communications technology

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TACSE Objectives

“Traditional” CS Students

Everyone Else,the

“Digitally Illiterate”

Digital Jobs

Everyone Becomes “Literate” in the

Digital Society

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1A

Teach every student the

foundational understanding of computer science

Increase the numberof students

pursuing digital careers

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Computer Science

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Computer Programming

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Software Implementation

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Texas Teacher Certification: Computer Science 8-12

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015*0

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Annual New Net Total

Source: https://secure.sbec.state.tx.us/Reports/prodrpts/rpt_edu_tchr_prod_counts.asp* Sept 2014-Apr 2015, all other years Sept-Aug

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Texas Teacher Certification: Computer Science 8-12

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015*0

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Source: https://secure.sbec.state.tx.us/Reports/prodrpts/rpt_edu_tchr_prod_counts.asp* Sept 2014-Apr 2015, all other years Sept-Aug

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TEALS

www.tealsk12.org TEALS (Technology Education And Literacy in Schools) is a

grassroots program that recruits, trains, mentors, and places high tech professionals from across the country who are passionate about computer science education into high school classes as volunteer teachers

TEALS volunteers team teach with ISD teachers Teach introductory or AP computer science Embedded PD that builds teacher capacity Now recruiting volunteers for Austin

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Join us for the next TACSE MeetUpWednesday June 10th www.tacse.org

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Productivity Grows Wages

Increase

Workers Buy More

Companies Hire MoreTax Revenue

Increases

Government Invests More

Workers Better Educated

Economy Expands

VirtuousCycle

Source: Inequality for All

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The Cyber Revolution

A new era of production has begun. Its principles of organization are as different from those of the industrial era as those of the industrial era were different from the agricultural. The cybernation revolution has been brought about by the combination of the computer and the automated self-regulating machine. This results in a system of almost unlimited production capacity which requires progressively less human labor. Cybernation is already reorganizing the economic and social system to meet its own needs.

Source: http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling/peace/papers/1964p.7-01.html

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Program or Be Programmed

Digital technology is programmed. This makes it biased toward those with the capacity to write the code. In a digital age, we must learn how to make the software, or risk becoming the software. It is not too difficult or too late to learn the code behind the things we use—or at least to understand that there is code behind their interfaces. Otherwise, we are at the mercy of those who do the programing, the people paying them, or even the technology itself.

Source: Douglas Rushkoff, Program or Be Programmed