This document discusses pathways to success in the 21st century and the future of work. It begins with a discussion of robots and their increasing roles in fields like agriculture, manufacturing, space exploration, and healthcare. It then discusses the need to cultivate innovation and innovators through approaches like transdisciplinary education that brings together different fields to solve real-world problems. Special emphasis is placed on integrating areas like networking, cybersecurity, simulations, health, energy and the environment with arts, science, technology and mathematics.
30. Haiku is a Japanese poem
composed of three
unrhymed lines of five,
seven, and five syllables.
(5) The moment two are
(7) united they both vanish
(5) A lotus blooms here.
Murakami, Kijo. (1865-1938), Adapted by Brazell
http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/#time
Bob Allen
ideas
31. Haiku – Abilene, TX
(5) Technology’s nice,
(7) Enhances teaching, learning too, but
(5) Human hands must type
32. Or, if you twitter
#radicalplatypus
@radicalplatypus
33. Haiku – SLC
(5) Keystrokes on canvas
(7) Mixed paints in a petri dish
(5) And murals of math
34. Haiku - Christian Brothers, US
(5) While reaching for stars
(7) keep Frankenstein at heart
(5) or worlds fall apart
36. “There are kids on Maui
who have never been to
the top of the mountain or
to Hana much less have
they traveled off of the
island.”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotographis/528878003/sizes/o/
When I say Maui, do you
think science and technology
or innovation?
58. Transdiscipline
Innovation is a function of moving
beyond the disciplines, solving real
world problems and integrating theory
and applied techniques to create new
knowledge, tools, processes, systems,
environments, etc.
61. Vocation - from the Latin verb
vocare, “to call.” In the modern
context it means a passion or an
inclination for a type of work for
which one is especially suited.
Passion-Meaning-Purpose-Calling
62. Write a haiku about your
Passion-Meaning-Purpose-Calling
73. …170 quadrillion computer chips… The total
number of transistors… is approximately the
same as the number neurons in your brain.
And the number of links among files in this
network is about equal to the number of
synapses in your brain… It has 3 billion
artificial eyes plugged in, it processes
searches at the humming rate of 14 kilohertz
and it is so large a contraption that it now
consumes 5 percent of the world’s electricity.
–Kevin Kelly, 2010, What Technology Wants
95. What is the fundamental
challenge for the 21st
century… and what
needs to change
(TURN)
5,7,5 or 2,4,6,8,2
96. Haiku – Silicon Valley (child)
(5) Platypus Speech
(7) Parent University turn
(5) robot’s switch
97. Or, if you twitter
#radicalplatypus
@radicalplatypus
98. Haiku – Silicon Valley (child)
(5) Platypus Speech
(7) Parent University turn
(5) robot’s switch
Who are the robots = “Adults”
99. What is the fundamental
challenge for the 21st
century… and what
needs to change
(TURN)
5,7,5 or 2,4,6,8,2
100.
101.
102. Special emphasis
should be placed on the
intersection of network
and information
technology (NIT) with
the arts, cyber security,
games and simulations,
health, energy,
transportation,
environmental science,
physical science and
health science.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-nitrd-report-2010.pdf
111. In 1994 a single
super computer
with the power
of an X-box did
not exist.
112. USC ISI and Tactical Language Training
(ITSEC 2005)
113. $7.5 million project that immerses students in the hectic environment of a hospital's
intensive care unit and places them in a first-person role as a health-care professional.
Funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, Pulse!! is being developed by Texas
A&M-Corpus Christi, which in turn hired Hunt Valley (Md.)-based BreakAway to
produce and design the platform. –Business Week
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/apr2006/id20060410_051875.htm
Pulse!!
124. In 1958, engineer
Earl Bakken of
Minneapolis,
Minnesota,
produced the first
wearable external
pacemaker
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/10/29/batterypacemaker/
125. A Pacemaker the
Size of a Tic Tac -
Medtronic is using
microelectronics to
make a pacemaker so
small it can be
injected. Technology
Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/32436/?nlid=
4177
135. National Endowment for
Science Technology and
the Arts
K-12 Schools
Bring computer science into the
National Curriculum as an
essential discipline.
Use video games and visual
effects at school to draw greater
numbers of young people into
STEM and computer science.
Encourage art-tech crossover
and work-based learning
through school clubs.
http://www.nesta.org.uk/home1/assets/features/next_gen
137. The United States has entered into a
significant national decline in the
number of college graduates with
STEM degrees. The downward trend in
college graduates with STEM majors is
particularly pronounced in Computer
Science (CS).
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10619/nsf10619.htm
138. Of the two million U.S. arts jobs requiring
significant technology proficiency:
• 10% architects
• 11% artists, art directors and animators
• 7% producers and directors and
• 7% photographers
The products of these disciplines
represent 6.4% of the U.S. economy and
over $126 billion annually in revenue from
foreign trade. Read more at Arts in the
Workforce. http://www.nea.gov/research/ArtistsInWorkforce.pdf
142. STEM, IT, Arts Integration Leaders
US Digital Convergence
Centers
• New York City
• Washington DC MSA
• Central Florida
• San Francisco/Silicon
Valley
• Los Angeles
• San Diego MSA
• Phoenix
• Denver
• Las Vegas
• San Antonio-Austin-
Waco, TX
Global Digital
Convergence Centers
• South Korea
• Finland
• China
• Taiwan
• Sweden
• Denmark
• Germany
• UK
• Israel
• Malaysia
• Japan
Evans, Eliza, Michael Sekora, Alexander Cavalli,
Kinman Chan, Jeeyoung Heo Kenneth Kan,
Yue Kuang, Prakash Mohandas, Xiaoxiang Zhang,
and Jim Brazell. Digital Convergence Initiative:
Creating Sustainable Competitive Advantage in
Texas. San Marcos, Texas: Greater Austin-
San Antonio Corridor Council, 2005.
Full Report: http://www.dcitexas.org/DCI_report.pdf
143. Source: Brazell, Jim, Nicholaus Kim, Honoria Starbuck, Eliza Evans, and Michael Bettersworth.
Gaming: A Technology Forecast, Implications for Texas Community and Technical Colleges
Austin, Texas: Texas State Technical College System and IC2 Institute, University of Texas Austin,
2004. ISBN 0978677358
Table of Contents: http://www.system.tstc.edu/forecasting/reports/dgames.asp
144. transitioning from a manufacturing to
an innovation economy
http://mit.edu/cre/research/ncc/proceedings/ncc-casestudies.pdf
147. Today, Finland’s progressive strategy includes: multi-
disciplinary and multi-industry collaboration to integrate
nano science-, bio science-, information science- and
cognitive science-based research and development (Tieke,
2005, p.9); converging design, art and science in the
contexts of education and human development
(Tahkokallio and Koivusilta, 2004, p.1); national R&D
policy and urban-rural development establishing
connected regional centers of innovation; partnering with
global high tech markets and industries (Embassy of
Switzerland, Beijing, 2005, p.12); and leading the world in
“Public-Private Partnership” (with efforts dating back to
the year of their independence, 1917) (Tieke, 2005, p.12-
15).
159. “…newer programs like Pre-
engineering, Biomedical Sciences,
Manufacturing Engineering
Technologies, and Homeland
Security and Emergency
Preparedness are attracting more
and more students.”
Maryland Classroom: CTE: Educating Tomorrow’s
Workforce Today, April 2008
171. How CyberPatriot works
• Multi-round competition
– Qualifying rounds are virtual and teams
compete simultaneously
– Teams download VMware images and attempt
to secure them over a given period of time
– Teams connected to centralized scoring
platform
– Teams graded against known solution sets
• Finals held in Orlando and
Washington DC
Cyber Patriot
highschoolcdc.com
182. How CyberPatriot works
• Multi-round competition
– Qualifying rounds are virtual and teams
compete simultaneously
– Teams download VMware images and attempt
to secure them over a given period of time
– Teams connected to centralized scoring
platform
– Teams graded against known solution sets
• Finals held in Orlando and
Washington DC
186. How do you teach biology different than
when you learned it?
“When I was in school I did not
do science in school.” At the
Citadel, students are in the lab
with faculty doing researh.”
--Kathy Zanin, Professor, Biology