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John Branson |
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Director, Educational Research, Development and
Technology Services |
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Chester County Intermediate Unit |
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Empowers individuals, small businesses and even
nations |
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Has reshaped the global economy and workforce |
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Has shifted organizational structure from a
vertical to a horizontal hierarchy |
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Allows work to be done anywhere and anytime. |
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Thomas Friedman calls this phenomenon “Flattening”
in his book The World is Flat. |
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In 2005, approximately 400,000 U.S. tax returns
will be completed by accountants in India. |
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Smaller hospitals are sending CAT scans abroad
to be read by radiologists nicknamed “Nighthawks.” |
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U.S. drones flying over Iraq piloted by experts
in Nevada and analyzed real time by high level military officers in Tampa,
Qatar and the Pentagon. |
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Orders from Customers at the McDonald’s drive
through in Girardeau, Missouri being taken by a call center in Colorado
Springs (could just as easily be Bangalore, India). |
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December 7, 2004, IBM announced that they were
selling their PC division to a firm in China. |
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U.S. phone companies routing local calls through
Europe during high traffic periods. (Frances Cairncross, The Death of
Distance, 2001) |
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Motorola phones being designed and assembled in
China and driven by software develop in India. |
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While HP has been in crisis mode in the U.S.,
its sales in China have risen 20% annually for the last 4 years. |
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In 2000, approximately 1.5 billion new workers
joined the global workforce from China, India and the former Soviet Union. |
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2.8 million bachelors degrees in science and
engineering were awarded world wide in 2003: |
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1.2 million to Asian students |
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830,000 European |
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400,000 U.S. |
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Asian countries produced 8 times the number of
engineers as the U.S. China alone graduated 6 times as many engineers
(Gates, 2005) |
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China is the second largest exporter to the U.S.
behind Canada. |
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Opportunities |
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Substantially expands the workforce. |
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Increases efficiency and productivity. |
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May open new markets. |
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Increases access to specialized expertise. |
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11/9/89 – The fall of the Berlin Wall opened up
Eastern Europe to the Global Economy, |
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Netscape going public opened up the Internet to
the masses |
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Work Flow software and shared standards allowed
enabled global communication and collaboration |
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Open sourcing allowed groups to create powerful,
inexpensive software independent of large corporations |
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Y2K required outsourcing IT functions to India
and established India as a major IT leader |
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Off-shoring |
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Companies moving to other countries in search of
expertise, not low cost labor |
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Supply Chaining |
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Companies use of technology to create
highly-efficient management of the supply chain leading to “Just In Time”
inventory control (Walmart). Suppliers became partners |
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Insourcing |
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Companies partnering to provide more efficient
services (UPS) |
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Informing |
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Google, Yahoo, MSN Web Search: All the world’s
knowledge available to anyone, anywhere, anytime |
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Digital, Mobile, Personal and Wireless. |
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Move from ‘Command and Control’ to ‘Connecting
and Collaborating’ |
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Two-thirds of the nation’s math and science
teachers will retire by 2010. |
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Half of America’s scientists and engineers are
40 or older. |
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Funding for research in the physical and
mathematical sciences decreased 37%
between1970 and 2004. |
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2005 Federal Budget cut NSF funding by 1.9 %. |
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The number of jobs that require science or
engineering skills is growing 5% per year. |
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Three Gaps facing U.S. |
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Numbers Gap |
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Ambition Gap |
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Education Gap |
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Constantly upgrade your skills! |
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Develop Specialized Expertise. |
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Be Adaptable. |
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Encourage female students to pursue careers in
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) |
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The number of females in college has exceeded
the number of males since the 1980’s and the differential continues to
increase, |
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Females are much less likely to major in
computer science, engineering and physical sciences (NCES, 2005). |
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Provide experiences for Students to Learn About
and Interact with Students from China, India and other emerging nations. |
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U.S.-China Cultural Enhancement Act of 2005 |
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Barrett, Craig (2004). Preparing students for
the 21st century. Keynote address at the National Educational Computing
Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 20-23. |
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Business Week (2005). China & India: The
challenge and the opportunity. August 22/29, 2005. Available at: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/05_34/B3948chinaindia.htm |
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Cairncross, Frances (2001). The death of
distance. Boston. The Harvard Business School Press. |
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Friedman, Thomas L. (2005). The world is flat: A
brief history of the twenty-first century. NY: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. |
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Lewis, Michael (2001). Next: The future just
happened. NY: W.W. Norton and Company. |
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National Intelligence Council (2004). Mapping
the global future: Report on the National Intelligence Council’s 2020
project. Pittsburgh:Government Printing Office. Available at: http://www.cia.gov/nic/NIC_globaltrend2020_s1.html |
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Partnership for 21st Century Skills (2005). www.21stcenturyskills.org. |
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