FAST FORWARD

JOINT CONVENTION 2011

By John Swanson

Today we are living in an age of speed and continuous discovery. Change is constant and the speed of change is relentlessly on the increase. Rapid and fundamental change is simultaneously impacting our personal world, our work world, our culture, and our society. Put them all together, and we find that most of us are living a life that is stressful, sometimes out of control, and for many, very exciting. Some wish the world would slow down. Well, get over it! It’s just not going to happen.

FROM FAST PACE TO WARP SPEED

Prepare All Students to Meet the Challenges of an Ever-Changing World

Empowering All Students to Succeed in a Changing World

To Enable All Students to Achieve in an Ever-Changing World

MISSION STATEMENTS

GARY MARX

Bea McGarvey Chuck Schwahn

THE FUTURE IS NOW

An increased awareness of some future trends which have implications for

education.

OUTCOME

A line of general direction or movement

A prevailing tendency or inclination

TREND

By 2030, learning a second language will no longer be necessary.

futurepredictions.com

PREDICTIONS

A child born in the United States in 2001 is expected to live about 30 years longer than a child born in 1900. (AARP)

The population of the U.S. is expected to grow from 275 million in 2000 to 571 million in 2010. Those people 85 and older are expected to increase from 4.3 million in 2000 to 37 million in 2100. (U.S. Census Bureau)

AGING

Demographics are real numbers, hard to argue with. The famous Boomer generation is becoming “seniors”… but not the kind of seniors your grandma was. They are healthy, expect to live longer and, for most, believe that anything is still possible. And there are lots of them… who will create new markets, require services, and depend on a shrinking number of wage earners to keep Social Security and Medicare solvent.

FROM BOOMERS TO SENIORS

The Future

Is Already Here

NEIL HOWE

GENERATIONS

Born between 1901 - 1924

The GI Generation

Born between 1925 - 1945

The Silent Generation

Born between 1946 - 1964

Baby Boomers

Born between 1965 - 1981

Generation X

Born between 1982 - 2003

The Millennials

(Born in 2004 and after)

(Generation E)

Seven Core Traits

1. Special2. Sheltered3. Confident4. Team

Oriented5. Conventional6. Pressured7. Achieving

THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION

SPEC

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SHEL

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CO

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TEAM ORIENTED

CONVENTIONAL

PRES

SUR

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ACHIEVING

New York Times(2007)

THESE KIDS HAVE AMBITION AND

ASPIRATION COMING OUT OF THEIR EARS.

THEY WANT TO BE LEADERS WHEN THEY

GROW UP. THEY WANT TO CHANGE

THE WORLD.

CybrariansWeb GardenersRobotic EngineersTerrorism AnalystsAutomotive Fuel Cell

TechniciansProgramming ArtistsLeisure Consultants

EMERGING CAREERS

Today’s anywhere, anytime technology has blurred the lines between being at work and being at home. Your netbook is all you need to transfer your work from the office to your den. So beware, you can easily be putting in 70+ hours per week at the expense of your family time if you are not able to blend your responsibilities. Healthy blenders have identified work that is highly satisfying to them personally and then take the time, at their discretion, to be the parent and partner that they want to be. Timelines may be blurred, but responsibilities are not.

WORK-LIFE BALANCE TO WORK-LIFE BLEND

Lifetime loyalty to a single organization is a thing of the past. Conservative estimates are that 35 million Americans are Free Agents today, selling services, expertise, and advice to multiple clients. They are trading security for freedom and opportunity while transforming job security into “jobless security”. The good news is that Free Agents can set their own schedules… the bad news is that many are working 24/7.

FROM EMPLOYMENT TO FREE AGENTS

Information doubles somewhere between every 6 months and 2 years. It is estimated that when the present first graders are adults, information will double every 30 days. (Schlechty 1990)

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003. (Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, 2010)

INFORMATION, INFORMATION, INFORMATION

Change used to be something we could watch. Montgomery Ward took a couple of decades to be done in by the retail innovations of Sam Walton. Travel agents fought the tide of personal computers and the do-it-yourself movement for years. Today’s disruptive innovations and the “mass customization” movement have taken down Blockbuster and crippled Barnes and Noble in a matter of months. These kind of innovations have placed in jeopardy any business or industry which sits between the creator of products and services and the end users of those products and services.

FROM CHANGE TO DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS