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Andrew SearsPresident, City Vision College
Executive Director, TechMission
Jesus Geeks:Equipping Technology Ministers
to Serve Digital Natives
Lessons on How to Serve Digital NativesBased on Past Mass Migrations
Rural
Urban
Online/
Digital
Lessons from Urbanization1. Urbanization presents new problems and
opportunities2. Rural parents not fluent in parenting
urban children3. Need balanced urban-culture fluent
parenting and teaching4. Need to teach new models for ministry to
address new opportunities and problems
Lessons for Virtualization1. Online world presents new problems and
opportunities2. Digital-immigrant parents/teachers not
fluent in parenting/teaching digital native children
3. Need balanced digital-culture fluent parenting & teaching
4. Need to teach new models for ministry to address new opportunities and problems
Opportunities and Threats from Technology for Digital Natives
Opportunities Threats
Growth in diversity Growth in deviance
Many options/connections
Shallow focus & relationships
More information More temptation
Less global poverty More domestic inequalityDecreased autocracy Decreased accountability
Viral church growth Viral cults
Megachurch network growth
Wal-Mart Effect on Churches
Increased specialization Holistic church decrease
Increased Capacity for Good
Increased Capacity for Evil
How Do You Prepare Future Technology Ministers to Address These Needs?
Incarnational Ministry Philosophy
Become a Jew to the JewsAnd a Greek to the Greeks
Incarnational Ministry Philosophy
Become a Jew to the JewsAnd a Geek to the Geeks
Jesus was the first techie (Tektōn)
“Technology is anything invented after you were born,
everything else is just stuff.”
-Alan Kay
Techies
Digital Natives
Diffusion of Digital Culture
Time
Bilingual “Age Out”
Incarnational Ministry among Digital Natives
Are we becoming bilingual/bicultural by immersing ourselves in their culture?
Are we meeting them where they are or forcing them to meet us on our cultural terms?
Are we preparing them to live in the world we grew up in or the world they will live in?
What indigenous leadership development of tech leaders strategy do you have?
Masters in Science, Technology, Society & Ministry Program Design
Modeled after similar programs at MIT & Stanford◦ Interdisciplinary like Science, Technology & Society
programs, but much more practical ministry focusDesigned…
◦ To balance out training of tech staff in Christian organizations
◦ To function as an incubator/startup accelerator for technology ministries
◦ To equip future Chief Digital Officers◦ Around project based learning
1. Theology
of Technolog
y3 .
Organizational Systems
Emerging Media
Electives
4. Appropria
te Technolog
y
2. Theology of Work
(Identity)
Capstone Course
MSTSMProgram Design
5. Limits of Tech & Tech Addictions6. Financial Sustainability
MSTSM Courses
Required CoursesTheology of TechnologyTheology of Work in
STEM ProfessionsSystems ThinkingEmerging Media
MinistryAppropriate Technology
in the IT FieldCapstone DesignCapstone Project
ElectivesHistory and Case
Studies of Technology in the Church
Technology and Addiction
High Tech Social Entrepreneurship
Grant & Proposal Writing
Examples of Helpful Responses to Issues with Digital Natives
Lack of ability to focus in depth: “The Shallows”
Device distractions in the classroomTech addictionsTablets with kidsSpiritual formation online
Questions for Discussion1. General comments or questions2. What advice or suggestions do you have
to make the MSTSM program more effective?
3. How would you change this program to better meet the needs of tech staff and students from your institution?
4. Ideas for ways City Vision could partner with your school?
Appendix
MSTSM Program Outcomes1. Theology of Technology: understand the philosophy, theology and
historical context of technology in ministry and how to apply that in professional settings
2. Identity and Calling: understand the vocation of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) careers and their unique identity and role within their field in a way that maximizes their calling and enables ministry
3. Systems: understand complex systems in a way that helps them to effectively lead others and apply technology in ministry and professional environments
4. Appropriate Technology: develop effective technology programs in a way that takes into account the unique cultures they will be serving and how to use technology to serve the poor and cross-cultural communities
5. Limits of Technology: understand some of the limits of technology and how to counter some of the negative implications of technology and its effect on relationships and creation of new addictions
6. Sustainability: develop effective strategies for sustainable technology ministry initiatives by monitoring and understanding the latest theories, trends, tools and opportunities in technology in ministry and business professions.
Re-imagining InternshipsWhat if the internship replaced the campus as
the center of education?What if every class had a major project designed
to be applied in an internship or ministry setting?◦ Each class provides a lens to be applied at internship
CityVisionInternships.org◦ Designed as a Christian counterpart to AmeriCorps based
on 9-year AmeriCorps program placing 500+ interns◦ Over 500 applicants annually to be placed in about 50
ministries◦ Ministry sites pay tuition of interns
Past Debates: Writing
Key Debate: Will writing hurt learning?
“For this invention [writing] will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them.” – Socrates in Phaedrus 274c-275b)
Writing enabled knowledge discovery to be modularized from rest of learning process
Past Debates: BooksBig Debate: Should a professor only teach
from books they wrote?◦“…If we use Sasso’s book, theywill say what
our students have learned, they have learned from Sasso, not from us” –John Paul Nicolas, 1588, expressing concerns about not using grammer books that they had written themselves
Books became modularized from rest of learning process
A Potential Future: by 2030-40…
More than half of majority culture US Christian colleges will either close or will shrink by more than 50%
Non-western Christian colleges will grow by 10-fold◦May have cost structure 1/10 of Western colleges
More than two-thirds of enrollments will be onlineGeneral education courses online will be
commoditized and will be offered by a few large centralized players (i.e. Amazon.com of education)
Potential Future by 2030-40: 4 Models of Colleges
1. Resort College◦Residential colleges become counterpart to elite
private high schools◦For the rich and upper middle class (Saks Fifth
Avenue)◦Costs will continue to go up
2. Inexpensive online & community colleges◦For middle and low income (Target, Walmart)
3. Inexpensive international colleges4. Non-accredited free educational programs
TechMission/City Vision Strategy
How do you lead in a disruptive technology environment in Christian higher education? 1. Gather the Christian disruptive tech
leaders (Jesus-Tech)2. Retail Strategy: Provide innovative
(tech) Christian university for serving at-risk communities (Jesus, Justice)
3. Wholesale Strategy: Provide tech capacity (tech) to Christian minority-culture schools (Jesus-Justice)
Modular Transformation of Computer Industry
Source: Only the Paranoid Survive, Andy Grove
U of A U of B
Virtually Integrated University
Univ.
Unbundled University
OpenLessons
OpenCourses
Study Groups
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Faculty Networks Churches
Internship
Univ.
Univ.
Univ.Research
LabCorporations Individuals
OpenContent Publishers
Self-Publish
Univ.
KnowledgeDiscovery
WrittenKnowledge
Course Materials
Faculty Community
Student Community
The Unbundled University
Knowledge Discovery
WrittenKnowledge
Course Materials
Faculty Community
Student Community Churches
U of C U of D
Strengths of STEM Christians• Logic and analysis, Rational/methodical• Objective/data driven• Meritocracy• Innovation/Efficiency• Collaborative, Open• High leverage
Weaknesses of STEM Christians• Analysis paralysis • Lower emotional IQ• Perfectionism • Communication/Public speaking/Shyness• Isolated (personally, society)• Risk adverse• Distant from end use• Unknown whether you are helping others• Arrogance of rationality• One part of many/anonymous
Opportunities for STEM Christians• Tent Makers• Natural missionaries to STEM fields• People leadership in tech field• Create stuff that helps those in need• Magnify reach of other Christians
Threats/Challenges to STEM Christians• Faith in rationality/logic/numbers• Attacked for faith• Legalism• Working for wealth• Limited work in STEM for direct ministry• Isolation: from gadgets• Addiction to gadgets• Loneliness• More frequent crises of faith• Instant gratification/impatience
Tech & MissionsICCM, Lightsys, MAF,GEM, EMI, WIN, OBVisionSynergy, AIBIWycliffe IT, CheckItOut
Tech & MinistryInternet Evangelism Day, Mobile Ministry Forum,YouVersion, ABS, Cru
Christian College STEM ProgramsAccessED, ACU, Calvin, Taylor, BaylorBiola, Olivet, Fuller, Wheaton, Liberty
Christian MediaOnline, Magazines, SoftwarePublishers, Radio & TV
Church TechLifeChurch, Menlo ParkSaddleback, Willow Creek
Christians in Tech CompaniesCode for the Kingdom,Christians in Tech (FB & LinkedIn)
Christian STEM AcademicsChristians Engineering Society, Intervarsity Faculty, Cru Faculty, ASA,ISCAST, ASA, CSS
Christian Tech WritersMedia Ecology, Ministry,
Marketplace Ministry
Economic Development
Business as Mission
Tentmaking
For ProfitNonprofit
General
Tech Specific
Churches
Parachurches
Christian Education
Does Technology Hurt or Help the Poor?