The Times They Are A-Changin’ Dr. Scott McLeod Director, CASTLE June 18, 2007

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Technology is changing us This is about our way of life. An historical analog would be the Industrial Revolution, but compressed into 15 years - not played out over a century. Hang on - this will be quite a ride. - Joseph S. Kraemer

This is about our way of life. An historical analog would be the Industrial Revolution, but compressed into 15 years - not played out over a century. Hang on - this will be quite a ride.

- Joseph S. Kraemer

YouTube

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Distributed computing [email_address] United Devices Smallpox Research Grid Project Find-a-drug [email_address] Muon1 [email_address] Screensaver Lifesaver

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United Devices Smallpox Research Grid Project

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Muon1

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Screensaver Lifesaver

Wikipedia

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Global ideagoras

Prosumer communities

Global collaboration arXiv Human Genome Project OpenWetWare European Bioinformatics Institute Intel Open University Network

arXiv

Human Genome Project

OpenWetWare

European Bioinformatics Institute

Intel Open University Network

Rise of the Creative Class

Importance of creativity Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind Can someone overseas do it cheaper? Can a computer do it faster? Is what I’m offering in demand in an age of abundance? Relationships, collaboration, creativity, innovation, problem-solving, pattern detection, synthesizing, adding value

Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind

Can someone overseas do it cheaper?

Can a computer do it faster?

Is what I’m offering in demand in an age of abundance?

Relationships, collaboration, creativity, innovation, problem-solving, pattern detection, synthesizing, adding value

1. Increase understanding Read, talk, show videos, etc. Ask tough questions Change people’s understanding and thinking Be willing to confront the brutal truth

Read, talk, show videos, etc.

Ask tough questions

Change people’s understanding and thinking

Be willing to confront the brutal truth

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills

If the leaders don’t get it, it isn’t going to happen

Are we teaching the right things? While we teach whatever we teach at school, the kids go home and learn the skills they need to survive and prosper in an interconnected global economy. - Clarence Fisher

While we teach whatever we teach at school, the kids go home and learn the skills they need to survive and prosper in an interconnected global economy.

- Clarence Fisher

We can’t keep doing what we’ve been doing No generation in history has ever been so thoroughly prepared for the industrial age. - David Warlick

No generation in history has ever been so thoroughly prepared for the industrial age.

- David Warlick

2. Don’t just scare them

Digital natives, immigrants, & refugees

Web 2.0 Interconnected Collaborative Personalized Autonomous Freewheeling Empowering

Interconnected

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Personalized

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Empowering

Putting the power in the hands of the users Collaboration Creativity Disintermediation Reach

Collaboration

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engage me or enrage me - Marc Prensky

High school dropout rate

3. Be effective change agents

We need to somehow change faster No one jumps a 20 foot chasm in two 10 foot jumps. – Miguel Guhlin

No one jumps a 20 foot chasm in two

10 foot jumps. – Miguel Guhlin

Embrace change What do you do when the [world] is moving away from you, not toward you? If you wait too long, it'll be too late to do much of anything at all. Instead, recognize that change is coming, that the reality you operate in is dying out, and start practicing how to do the next big thing. Betting on change is always the safest bet available. - Seth Godin, The Big Moo, pp. 90-91

What do you do when the [world] is moving away from you, not toward you? If you wait too long, it'll be too late to do much of anything at all. Instead, recognize that change is coming, that the reality you operate in is dying out, and start practicing how to do the next big thing. Betting on change is always the safest bet available.

- Seth Godin, The Big Moo, pp. 90-91

Make sure the change people win

Get the people that others listen to

Make your change ‘sticky’

Spend your energy appropriately The vital few The trivial many

Let people be f’n amazing

Get past the dip

Change your location The trick is to change your organization’s instinctual location on the curve. if you get used to being exceptional, you’ll probably stay there. - Seth Godin, The Big Moo , pp. 90-91

The trick is to change your organization’s instinctual location on the curve. if you get used to being exceptional, you’ll probably stay there. - Seth Godin, The Big Moo , pp. 90-91

4. Invest in smart infrastructure

This is meaningless

This is important

5. Conquer fear

Avoid death by risk aversion

They say: We can’t handle this much change. I say: Your job and career are in jeopardy; what other options do you have? - Seth Godin, The Big Moo , pp. 49-50

They say: We can’t handle this much change.

I say: Your job and career are in jeopardy; what other options do you have?

- Seth Godin, The Big Moo , pp. 49-50

They say: Times are changing. I say: Everything has already changed. Tomorrow is the first day of your revolution . . . or you’re toast. - Seth Godin, The Big Moo , pp. 49-50

They say: Times are changing.

I say: Everything has already changed. Tomorrow is the first day of your revolution . . . or you’re toast.

- Seth Godin, The Big Moo , pp. 49-50

They say I’m extreme. I say I’m a realist. - Seth Godin, The Big Moo , pp. 49-50

They say I’m extreme.

I say I’m a realist.

- Seth Godin, The Big Moo , pp. 49-50

What we need leadership v. management

leadership

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What we need anticipatory v. reactionary

anticipatory

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What we need future-oriented v. compliance-oriented

future-oriented

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Thank you! Dr. Scott McLeod Director, CASTLE University of Minnesota www.schooltechleadership.org www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org www.scottmcleod.net

Dr. Scott McLeod

Director, CASTLE

University of Minnesota

www.schooltechleadership.org

www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org

www.scottmcleod.net