Innovation and Technology: Two Key Ingredients for Improving Preparation and Transition to College

Where Can We Go From Here?

Data-Based Decisions

• Being able to see and use all allowable data in multiple formats:
• Textual
• Tabular
• Spatial
• Simulation
• The ability to know actual outcomes of programs from enterprise data and other private data sources.

What and Where Is Work and Who or What Does It?

• Human Race

• Workplace Workers

• Distributed Workers

• Outsourced Workers

• Crowd Sourced
• Workers

• Machine Race
• Computers and Robots

• Workplace Machines

• Distributed Machines

• Outsourced Machines

• Distributed
• Processing

• Work

• Play

• Neither and Both

Unbundling the Teaching Profession

• One job category
• Job description?
• Do it all and do it well.
• What does that mean?
• We need to face up to our teaching disabilities.

Job Description for a Teacher

• Teaching
• Assessment expert
• Diagnostic expert
• Curriculum designer
• Advisor
• Mentor
• Researcher/Writer
• Public servant
• Social worker
• Community and Parent Liaison

• Bureaucrat
• Policymaker
• Medical manager
• Content expert
• Technology integrator
• Disciplinarian
• Disability manager
• Secretary and data entry clerk
• And did I mention you have a life?

Converged Science

• Neuroscience
• Psychometrics
• Biology
• Psychology
• Communication and Persuasion
• Chemistry
• Physics
• How these will be applied to the teaching and learning process

Consider the Medical Model and Distributed Work

• How the health care work force is organized:
• We pay doctors a lot but there is still a huge supporting cast of specialist and professionals.
• They have insurance and customers shilling for them and occasionally annoying them.
• Consider how the converging sciences of information technology, neurology, assessment and so on can be used to diagnose successful and unsuccessful learning strategies and activities and vary how we approach education.