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

Dominant Private Practice for Change

• High Value

• Low Value

• High Cost

• Low Cost

• Current Process

• New Process

• Leap and Reap Rapidly

Government Failure to Precipitate

• Creep and Weep Over a Much Longer Time

• High Value

• Low Value

• High Cost

• Low Cost

• Current Process

• New Process

• Current Process

• Keep the Old Process But Do Less of It

• Where we passionately and methodically search for new insight into how the brain functions, how we learn, and the factors and methods of human organization and success...

• Education

SO WE CAN IGNORE IT ALL WHEN IT COMES TO OUR OWN PROGRAMS!

Education and Government: Resistant to Change

• Pushing change in education and government is like trying to run through a wall of spandex…
• …coated with Teflon so nothing sticks…
• And imbued with the universal element “Bureaucratium,” an amazing substance that seems indestructible and repels everything…

Examples of the Kind of Questions That I Intend to Ask As a Way of Infecting You With Viral Ideas

• No Birds Are Involved
• In Transmission…

Do You Remember?

• Plop

• Pop

• Cop

Technological Ethics

• Would it be unethical to make learning addictive?
• Hint: TV, music, game, drug, pornography, gambling and
• other industries do not understand the question
• Time=Value=Mind Share=Learning:
• where the time goes, the mind goes

Technological Ethics

• Which does not fit:
• Licentiousness, Extremes, Titillation, Comfort or Learning?
• We try to do analog replication and combination of these “easier” things to help learning - like with games that teach or a dramatization of an idea such as with Les Miserables.