Tired to hearing the term 21st Century Skills in discussions about education. It's time to look at the real literacies 21st Century citizens will need to be successful. It's about data visualization, computational thinking, continual learning, and team and global collaboration.

1. The Real Century 21 st
Literacies
R aym ond R ose Bonnie Bracey Sutton Henry N eem an
R ose & Sm ith P ow er of US, University of Oklahom a
Associates Foundation Director Norm an, Oklahom a
Austin, Tex as W ashington, DC

2. 21st Century Skills Project
http://www.p21.org/documents/P21_Framework.pdf
• Global Awareness • Information, Media and
• Financial, Economic, Technology Skills
Business and – Information Literacy
Entrepreneurial Literacy – Media Literacy
– ICT (Information,
• Civic Literacy Communications and
• Health Literacy Technology) Literacy
• Environmental Literacy • Life and Career Skills
– Flexibility and Adaptability
• Learning and Innovation
– Initiative and Self-Direction
Skills – Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
– Creativity and Innovation
– Productivity and Accountability
– Critical Thinking and Problem
– Leadership and Responsibility
Solving
– Communication and
Collaboration
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3. National Educational Technology Plan
2010
“Professionals routinely use the web and
tools such as wikis, blogs, and digital
content for the research, collaboration,
and communication demanded in their
jobs. They gather data and analyze it
using inquiry and visualization
tools. They use graphical and 3D
modeling tools for design”
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4. Standard Course Sequence
To THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EDUCATION:
The Committee of Ten appointed at the meeting of the National
Educational Association at Saratoga on the 9th of July, 1892,
have the honor to present the following report:—
http://tmh.floonet.net/books/commoften/mainrpt.html
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5. Supercomputing
in Plain English
What the Heck is Supercomputing?
• Henry Neeman, Director
• OU Supercomputing Center for
Education & Research
• University of Oklahoma Information Technology
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6. Supercomputing
in Plain English
What the Heck is Supercomputing?
Henry Neeman, Director
OU Supercomputing Center for
Education & Research
University of Oklahoma Information Technology

7. What is Supercomputing?
Supercom puting is the biggest,
fastest computing right this
minute.
Likewise, a supercom puter is one of
the biggest, fastest computers right this
minute.
So, the definition of supercomputing is
constantly changing.
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8. What is Supercomputing?
Rule of Thumb: A supercomputer is
typically at least 100 times as powerful as
a PC.
Jargon: Supercomputing is also known as
High Perform ance Com puting (HPC)
or High End Com puting (HEC) or
Cyberinfrastructure (CI).
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9. Fastest Supercomputer vs. Moore
Fastest Supercomputer in the World
10000000
1000000
Speed in GFLOPs
100000
10000
Fastest
Moore
1000
100
GFLOPs:
10 billions of
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calculations
1992 1997 2002 2007
per second
Year
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10. What is Supercomputing About?
Size Speed
Laptop
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11. What is Supercomputing About?
Size: Many problems that are
interesting to scientists and engineers
can’t fit on a PC – usually because
they need more than a few GB of RAM,
or more than a few 100 GB of disk.
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12. What is Supercomputing About?
Speed: Many problems that are
interesting to scientists and engineers
would take a very very long time to run
on a PC: months or even years.
But a problem that would take
a month on a PC might take only
a few hours on a supercomputer.
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13. What Is HPC Used For?
• Sim ulation of physical
phenomena, such as
– Weather forecasting
– Galaxy formation
– Oil reservoir management
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14. What Is HPC Used For?
Data m ining : finding
needles of information in
a haystack of data, such
as
– Gene sequencing
– Signal processing
– Detecting storms that
might produce
tornados
Moore, OK
Tornadic
Storm
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15. What Is HPC Used For?
Visualization : turning a vast sea
of data into pictures that a
scientist can understand
for more info about data visualization…
http://www.ted.com/speakers/david_mccandless.html
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16. Why Bother with HPC at All?
Making effective use of supercomputing takes quite a bit
of effort, both learning how and developing software.
That seems like a lot of trouble to go to just to get your
code to run faster.
It’s nice to have a code that used to take a day, now run
in an hour. But if you can afford to wait a day, what’s
the point of supercomputing?
Why go to all that trouble just to get your code to run
faster?
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17. Why HPC is Worth the Bother…
What HPC gives you that you won’t get
elsewhere is the ability to do
bigger, better, more exciting science.
If your code can run faster, that means
that you can tackle much bigger problems
in the same amount of time that you used
to need for smaller problems.
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18. Why HPC is Worth the Bother
HPC is important not only for its own
sake, but also because what happens
in HPC today will be on your desktop
in about 10 to 15 years: it puts you
ahead of the curve.
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19. The Future is Now
Historically, this has always been true:
Whatever happens in supercomputing
today will be on your desktop in
10 – 15 years.
So, if you have experience with
supercomputing, you’ll be ahead of the
curve when things get to the desktop.
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20. Integration of Current Research
Assets NOAA (and other agencies)
bring to K-12 STEM Education
 Working Scientists and Engineers
 Can ensure accuracy, serve as role models, and share
scientific methods
 Content Knowledge
 Access to cutting edge discoveries
 Environments
 Preserves and laboratories provide a venue for hands-
on, locally relevant science
 Tools
 Data and technology
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21. NETP 2010
“…21st century competencies and
expertise such as critical
thinking, complex problem
solving, collaboration, and
multimedia communication
should be woven into all content
areas.”
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22. Visualization*: New Literacy
• Understanding visual data
• Reading and writing (visualizations)
*aka New Media Literacy
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23. Visual Thesaurus
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24. Mercator Projection
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25. Immappancy Data Visualization
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http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

26. Visualization Resources
• Wordle
• Many Eyes
– PhraseNet
• Periodic Table of Visualization
Methods
• TACC Scientific Visualization Gallery
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27. STEM  TE(a)MS
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28. Programs Worth a Look…
• Globaloria
– http://www.worldwideworkshop.org/programs/globaloria
• Analytical Integrated Math (AIM)
– http://davinci-minds.com/k12-aim.html
• Scalable Game Design
– http://scalablegamedesign.cs.colorado.edu/gamewiki/images
/b/b2/Scalable_Game_Design_summary.pdf
– http://www.agentsheets.com/about_us/press-
material/documents/ScalableGameDesign.pdf
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29. Contact Information
Bonnie Bracey Sutton
bbracey@aol.com
Henry Neem an
hneeman@ou.edu
R aym ond R ose
ray@rose-smith.com
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