Teaching In Flat World

The World Is Flat – Implications for YOU (and your students) Britt Watwood Online Learning Specialist Center For Teaching Excellence …and YOU!

Not Your Father’s World... … or your Mother’s either!

Two Books http://www.tompeters.com/freestuff/index.php

Presentation Plan

Some Background Information

Ten Flatteners

Educating In A Flat World

New World Skills

Do We Have a BRAND ?

“ There is no job that is America’s God-given right anymore.” —Carly Fiorina/HP/01.08.2004 http://www.tompeters.com/freestuff/index.php

“ When I was growing up, my parents used to say to me: ‘Finish your dinner—people in China are starving.’ I, by contrast, find myself wanting to say to my daughters: ‘ Finish your homework — people in China and India are starving for your job .’” —Thomas Friedman/06.24.2004 http://www.tompeters.com/freestuff/index.php

Where I Am Going: Teaching In A Flat World Mishra, & Koehler, 2006

The World Is Flat

The Triple Convergence

Lots of Flatteners In Last 10 Years

New Skills and New Playing Field

New Competition (India and China)

By Thomas L. Friedman (2005)

Globalization1.0*: Countries globalizing Globalization2.0**: Companies globalizing Globalization3.0***: Individuals collaborating & competing globally *1492-1800 **1800-2000 ***2000+ Source: Tom Friedman, The World Is Flat http://www.tompeters.com/freestuff/index.php

The Ten Flatteners

# 1 – 11 / 9 / 89

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

World Competition

The Ten Flatteners

# 2 - 8 / 9 / 95

Netscape Going Public

Internet as THE media for information

The Ten Flatteners

# 3 - Work Flow Software

Have Your App Talk to My App

PayPal and EBay

Blackboard and MS Office

The Ten Flatteners

# 4 – Open-Sourcing

Self Organized Collaboration

Apache as backend of Blackboard

Mozilla / Firefox

The Ten Flatteners

# 5 - Outsourcing

Cheap Labor overseas

Everything from Bb to Your Taxes

The Ten Flatteners

# 6 - Offshoring

Movement of Entire Organizations Overseas

Dell

The Ten Flatteners

# 7 – Supply-Chaining

Interconnectiveness of Suppliers and Users

WalMart

Dell

The Ten Flatteners

# 8 - Insourcing

Use of UPS and FedEx to Replace Departments

UPS as Techs for Toshiba

The Ten Flatteners

# 9 - In-Forming

Have You Googled Today?

Everyone is now a researcher

The Ten Flatteners

# 10 – The Steroids

Digital

Mobile

Personal

Virtual

It’s The Steroids That Matter…

Your World

Digital

Mobile

Personal

Virtual

Globalization1.0*: Countries globalizing Globalization2.0**: Companies globalizing Globalization3.0***: Individuals collaborating & competing globally *1492-1800 **1800-2000 ***2000+ Source: Tom Friedman/ The World Is Flat The Individual Matters !

“ In a global economy, the government cannot give anybody a guaranteed success story, but you can give people the tools to make the most of their own lives.” —WJC, from Philip Bobbitt, The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History http://www.tompeters.com/freestuff/index.php

Digital

Mobile

Personal

Virtual

Your Student’s World – Your Student’s Tools!

Digital

Mobile

Personal

Virtual

Your Student’s World – Your Student’s Tools! Should Not Their Education Replicate This Digital, Mobile, Personal, Virtual World ?

The Thumb People

“Young girls in high school can now move their thumbs faster than they can type on a PC.”

Tom Friedman: The World is Flat

Beneath a tree, a student:

manipulates an Excel spreadsheet,

texts comments to classmates using her phone,

asks the professor questions via instant messaging (IM)

listens to her iPod

The campus is her classroom.

The classroom is her campus.

Are we ready for this student?

“ Over the last decade the biggest employment gains came in occupations that rely on people skills and emotional intelligence and among jobs that require imagination and creativity . … Trying to preserve existing jobs will prove futile—trade and technology will transform the economy whether we like it or not. Americans will be better off if they strive to move up the hierarchy of human talents. That’s where our future lies .” —Michael Cox, Richard Alm and Nigel Holmes/“Where the Jobs Are”/NYT/05.13.2004 http://www.tompeters.com/freestuff/index.php

“ It is not the s trongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent , but the one most responsive to change.” —Charles Darwin http://www.tompeters.com/freestuff/index.php

“ People who succeed are those who are the best at ‘Plan B’.” — The New Scientist/09.05 http://www.tompeters.com/freestuff/index.php

“ How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for stasis—a regulated, engineered world? Or do we embrace dynamism—a world of constant creation, discovery and competition? Do we value stability and control? Or evolution and learning? Do we think that progress requires a central blueprint? Or do we see it as a decentralized, evolutionary process? Do we see mistakes as permanent disasters? Or the correctable byproducts of experimentation? Do we crave predictability? Or relish surprise? These two poles, stasis and dynamism, increasingly define our political, intellectual and cultural landscape.” — Virginia Postrel, The Future and Its Enemies http://www.tompeters.com/freestuff/index.php

Roundtable

Am I preparing MY students for life in a Flat World ?

Should I?

Innovation! NOT Imitation

“ Don’t benchmark, futuremark!” http://www.tompeters.com/freestuff/index.php

Beyond Quality

What does Harley-Davidson sell?

Are You Selling Programs … or Dreams ?

Tragedy of the “Common”

Common Product

Maxwell House

BVD

Payless

Hyundai

Suzuki

Atlantic City

Price is Right

Dream Product

V E R S U S

Tragedy of the “Common”

Common Product

Maxwell House

BVD

Payless

Hyundai

Suzuki

Atlantic City

Price is Right

Dream Product

Starbucks

Victoria’s Secret

Ferragamo

Ferrari

Harley-Davidson

Acapulco

Who Wants To Be a Millionaire

V E R S U S

What Differentiates

“ Our” Students

From Other

Institutions

of Higher Ed?

“ WHO ARE WE?”

“ Brand”? It’s all about … “Character” !

“ WHAT’S OUR STORY ?”

“ WHAT’S OUR Dream?”

Brand = You Must Care ! “ Success means never letting the competition define you . Instead you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.” —Tom Chappell, Tom’s of Maine http://www.tompeters.com/freestuff/index.php

“ If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply yourself you won’t get noticed, and that increasingly means you won’t get paid much either.” Michael Goldhaber, Wired http://www.tompeters.com/freestuff/index.php

“ You do not want to be considered the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do! “ —Jerry Garcia – Grateful Dead http://www.tompeters.com/freestuff/index.php

Do You Inspire Your Students? 1. Another day’s work / Pays the rent. 4. Of value. 7. Pretty Damn Cool / Definitely subversive. 10. WE AIM TO CHANGE THE WORLD. (Insane! / Insanely Great! / WOW!) Scale of 1 to 10 http://www.tompeters.com/freestuff/index.php

Future Skills – Branding Strategies

Think Solutions

Problem Solving

Think Interaction

Mobile and Virtual

Think Specialist

Application Specialist

Think Flexible

Multiple Skill Sets

Future Skills – Branding Strategies

Think Small

Small Businesses Remain Regional

Think Smart

Maintain Credentials (2 Yr Lifespan)

Think Fiscal

Understand R O I

Our Students In A Flat World First “Strategic Objective” : CHANGE THEMSELVES! (in a measurable way) http://www.tompeters.com/freestuff/index.php

Rule #1: When the world goes flat—and you are feeling flattened—reach for a shovel and dig inside yourself. Don’t try to build walls. Rule #2: And the small shall act big. … One way small companies flourish in the flat world is by learning to act really big. And the key to being small and acting big is being quick to take advantage of all the new tools for collaboration to reach farther, faster, wider, and deeper. Rule #3: And the big shall act small. … One way that big companies learn to flourish in the flat world is by learning how to act really small by enabling their customers to act really big. Rule #4: The best companies are the best collaborators. In the flat world, more and more business will be done through collaborations within and between companies, for a very simple reason: The next layers of value creation—whether in technology, marketing, biomedicine, or manufacturing—are becoming so complex that no single firm or department is going to be able to master them alone. Rule #5: In a flat world, the best companies stay healthy by getting regular chest X-rays and then selling the results to their clients. Rule #6: The best companies outsource to win, not to shrink. They outsource to innovate faster and more cheaply in order to grow larger, gain market share and hire more and different specialists—not to save money by firing more people. Rule #7: Outsourcing isn’t just for Benedict Arnolds. It’s also for idealists. Source: Tom Friedman/ The World Is Flat http://www.tompeters.com/freestuff/index.php

Teaching In A Flat World Mishra, & Koehler, 2006 Integrating A Wired World Into Teaching Adapting to Different Learning Styles T P C K

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. Michelangelo http://www.tompeters.com/freestuff/index.php

Aim High !