Everything is Digital and Always available On Demand by Everyone who are Inter-Connected via The Cloud which is Everywhere.

1. Communication
Trends Impacting Business
and Education

2. Let’s Talk
• Ground Rules
• About Me
• A Brief History
• Current Trends
• The Near Future
• Takeaways

3. My Brain – My Thoughts
• Physical World View
• Human Brains and Behavior
• Education System Experiences
• Education Deliverables

4. Physical World

5. Human Behavior

6. Left vs. Right

7. From the Gut
“Instinct is the gift of
experience. The first question
you have to ask yourself is, 'On
what basis am I making a
Gut instinct is “pattern judgment?' ... If you have no
recognition” based on past experience, then your instincts
experience. aren't any good.”
-Jack Welch, CEO - Malcom Gladwell

8. The Social Brain
"how exquisitely sensitive our minds
are to the goings-on of the minds
around us by suggesting that our
brains spontaneously mirror the
pattern of activity of other brains in
our vicinity.”
-Jason P. Mitchell

9. Newer Thought

10. What I See as School Deliverables

11. Then vs. Now

12. Personal Computer
Then Now

13. Internet Access
Then Now

14. Portable Music
Then Now

15. Watching Video
Then Now

16. Gaming Systems
Then Now

17. Mobile Phone
Then Now

18. Then vs. Now
Digital Immigrants Digital Native

19. Map of the Ancient Silk Road
•Journeys open humankind to accelerating
information, knowledge, progress

20. The Silk Road Journey
• YEARS via Walking
– Marco Polo’s Journeys
– Traveled Silk Road routes
between 1260 to 1269 and 1271
to 1295
– Venice to Beijing on land is
approximately 10000 km
– Few traveled the entire way

21. The Silk Road Journey
• MONTHS via the Sea
– Mediterranean Sea,
Red Sea and Indian
Ocean
– About 9000 nautical
miles one way
– Portuguese reached
the East by sea via
Atlantic in 1498

22. The Silk Road Journey
• WEEKS via the Mechanical
Horse
– Railroad tracks not
completed until 1900
– Truck and automobile
still predominant for
trade

23. The Silk Road Journey
• DAY via Aircraft
– First China Clipper
flights in 1935
– Daily Flights between
Italy and Beijing today
– 12 to 14 hour flight time

24. The NEW Silk Road
• HOURS via Wired
– First telegraph line across
the English Channel in 1850
– First 36 channel transatlantic
cable in 1955
– Now 1.263 billion phones
worldwide
– Approx 18 per 100 inhabitants
globally

25. The NEW Silk Road
• MINUTES via Wireless
– Terrestrial wireless
requires microwave
towers every 25 miles
– Satellite relay 0.25 of a
second to reach and
return from the satellite
– Carries only 1 percent of
international traffic due to
limited bandwidth

26. The NEW Silk Road
• SECONDS via Fiber Optics
– Internet Protocol
– 100 km between repeaters
– First transatlantic cable
installed in 1988
– Submarine cables carry
terabits per second vs.
megabytes per second via
satellite

27. The NEW Silk Road
• UBIQUITOUS via Wireless Devices
– 4.3 billion mobile subscriptions
– 57 phones per 100 inhabitants globally
– Approaching 5 billion by the end of
2010
– Outpacing all other forms of
connection
– 4G and WiMax

28. Comparison chart of subscriber types per 100 inhabitants

29. Communication Innovation
• Between wireless device penetration, transcontinental fiber
optic cable, IP connectivity, and cloud services
– Two people can talk any time, anywhere, on demand
– Drastically reduced time and cost of messaging
– Human interaction increases geometrically
– World Wide Web of Networks and Interconnections
– Anyone can now learn anything from anyone at anytime

30. Rockford – Lisbon Connection

31. Internet Diagram based on the January 15, 2005 data

32. 400 MILLION ACTIVE USERS

33. EACH REACHES ABOUT… 150 OTHERS…

34. AND THEY REACH 150 MORE…

35. My Social Graph

36. Humans:
The Ultimate Network of Networks

37. How is Technology Easier?
• Social-based learning
• Un-tethered learning
• Digitally-rich learning

38. Students Speak Up about their Vision
• When Asked, Students
– want to use their own cell phones, smart phones, or mp3
players;
– would like to use their own laptops or netbooks;
– said unlimited internet access throughout schools is
important;
– reported that social networking access is desirable; and
– said they would like tools to help them communicate with
classmates.

39. Hole in the Wall Project

40. Trends
“Science fiction does not “The Internet is just a
remain fiction for long. And world passing around
certainly not on the notes in a classroom.”
Internet.” — Jon Stewart
— Vinton Cerf

41. What are the Current Trends?
• Everything is Digital – Everything
– All businesses and economies are affected
• Social and Collaborative Networks – in the Clouds
– Students are Social and Collaborative Beings
• Rise of Devices
– The Internet of Things is coming, get on board

42. Current Trend:
Everything is Digital – Everything
• Audio / Video
• Encyclopedia / Books
• Even DNA Sequences

43. Audio, Video, Books, … Conversation
“What is the use of a book’,
thought Alice, ‘without pictures
or conversations?’”
— Lewis Carroll

44. Live365.com

45. Pandora

46. iTunes

47. Hulu

48. Netflix

49. YouTube

50. FORA.tv

51. TED Talks

52. Encyclopedia Britannica –> Encarta –> Wikipedia

53. Project Gutenberg

54. Google Books

55. Synthetic Life – Computer generated DNA

56. Current Trend:
Networking and Collaboration – In the Clouds
• Cloud Computing
• Social Networks
• Crowdsourcing Education

57. The Internet is the Cloud
"The Internet is the first thing that
humanity has built that humanity doesn't
understand, the largest experiment in
anarchy that we have ever had.“
— Eric Schmidt, CEO
“The Net treats censorship as a defect and
routes around it.”
—John Gilmore, Activist

58. Internet of Things - Kevin Kelly

62. Social Media Landscape

63. Ning

64. Flowr

65. Moodle

66. Google CloudCourse

67. MIT Open Courseware Initiative

68. Open Source Curriculum

69. Scitable: Democratizing Science

70. ThinkQuest

71. Current Trend:
Rise of Mobile Devices
• Progression of Devices
• Devices in Classrooms
• Mobile, Mobile, Mobile
• Devices in the workplace

72. Paperless Society?
"If civilization has risen from
the Stone Age, it can rise
again from the Wastepaper
Age."
— Jacques Barzun

73. Progression of Computing Devices

74. WolframAlpha on iPad

75. Sky Map on Android

76. iTunes University on iPod

77. Textbooks on Kindle

78. Google on SMS (466453)
define dna sequence 1 us pint in liters web hubble telescope

79. Mobile, Mobile, Mobile
• What students want most from ed tech
– “it’s all about mobile, mobile, mobile” with today’s
students
– They’re interested in using “the computers they’re
carrying around in their pockets—the smart phones”
for learning
– Students are interested in replacing their traditional
textbooks “with a truly interactive learning experience

80. Devices in the Workplace

81. Mobile Devices in Your School?

82. The Near Future
• Shift Happens
• Are The Students Ready?
• Factory Workers vs. Artists
• Borderless Classrooms
• Teachers or Facilitators?

83. Wireless Internet

84. Year of the Smartphone

85. Netbooks and Tablets and Pad, Oh My

86. 2010 Horizon Report • Technology is increasingly a means for
empowering students, a method for
communication and socializing, and a
ubiquitous, transparent part of their
lives.
• Technology continues to profoundly
affect the way we work, collaborate,
communicate, and succeed.
• The perceived value of innovation and
creativity is increasing.
• There is increasing interest in just-in-
time, alternate, or non- formal avenues
of education, such as online learning,
mentoring, and independent study.
• The way we think of learning
environments is changing.

87. Are Students Prepared? Not Really
• This time the shift is from an
Industrial Age to an Information and
Knowledge Age where information,
knowledge, expertise, and innovation
are increasingly the main engines of
our economy.
• Our education system, well-tuned for
the Industrial Age, now needs to sync
with the demands of our times and
focus on building the 21st century
knowledge, skills, and expertise we
need for success.

88. Would You Hire Your Own Kids?
• 7 Skills Schools Should be Teaching
– Critical Thinking and Problem-solving
– Collaboration Across Networks and
Leading By Influence
– Agility and Adaptability
– Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
– Effective Oral and Written
Communication
– Accessing and Analyzing Information
– Curiosity and Imagination

89. Wanted: Question Asking Skills
“First and foremost I look for “It’s not how much you retain but
someone who asks good how much they can explore. It’s
questions… I want people that can how you ask the next question. I
engage in good discussion. Who can look up anything but I can’t
can look me in the eye and have a take it to the next level w/o
give and take.” pushing and exploring“
- Clay Parker, CEO – Christy Pedra, CEO

90. Brainwashed?
“Our culture needed compliant
workers, people who would contribute
without complaint, and we set out to
create as many of them as we could.”
“And so generations of students turned
into generations of cogs, factory
workers in search of a sinecure. We
were brainwashed into fitting in, and
then discovered that the economy
wanted people who stood out instead”
- Seth Godin, Author

91. Are You Lizard Brain? Or a Linchpin?
Most of us were brainwashed into
believing that the safe thing to do is
listen to the lizard, keep our heads
down and fit in. Nonsense!
That might have been true when there
were saber tooth tigers, but not now.
In fact, now the way we succeed and
thrive and reach our goals is to do
precisely the opposite of what the
lizard proposes.”

92. Is this your Classroom?

93. Or This? Classrooms in Second Life

94. Ready for the Future?
"The future is already here—it's just
not very evenly distributed.“
- William Gibson, Author

95. Takeaways
• It’s In Our DNA to be Social
• Historical Acceleration of Change
• Patterns are a Key to Success
• Devices are Just Tools – For Social Communication
• It’s Not What You Know – What Can You Do?
Everything is Digital and Always available
On Demand by Everyone who are
Inter-Connected via The Cloud which is Everywhere.

96. Socialnomics

97. Network with me
Jeffrey Stewart
Partner/Chief Technical Officer
Trekk Cross-Media
Email: stew@trekk.com
Twitter Handle: JeffreyAStewart
Facebook: JAStewart
LinkedIn: jeffreyastewart
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98. Links
• http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/19/books-whats-next-dispatches-future-science/
• http://www.astd.org/TD/Archives/2010/May/Free/1005_Whole_Brain_Thinking.htm
• http://www.aee.org/about/
• http://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/History/CPUHist5.shtml
• http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_a2v9FM_QCMU/R40M-MoJDZI/AAAAAAAAAD8/VOm3Tpt3Riw/s400/800px-
Silk_Route_extant.JPG
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone
• http://www.itu.int/en/pages/default.aspx
• http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3074/3043334955_8928088bcd.jpg
• http://opte.org/maps/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
• http://k21st.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/neurons1.jpg
• http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SUNationalFindings2009.pdf
• http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/03/16/digital-access-collaboration-a-must-for-students/
• http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/new-way-to-learn.html
• http://computer.howstuffworks.com/google-books.htm
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDYCf4ONh5M

99. More Links
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHIocNOHd7A
• http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/01/20/report-details-coming-trends-in-campus-technology/?ast=31
• http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/06/nature-publisher-aims-to-save-planet-by-democratizing-
science/
• http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00738/
• http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/
• http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/05/sky-map-for-android-mobile-planetarium.html
• http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/textbooks-ditched-at-clearwater-high-as-students-log-
on-to-kindles/1099264
• http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/04/05/ed-tech-leaders-reveal-keen-insights/
• http://mashable.com/2009/12/14/white-house-smartphones/
• http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/
• http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/consumer/smartphones-to-overtake-feature-phones-in-u-s-by-
2011/
• http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/10-Smartphones-That-Are-Making-the-Biggest-Impact-
in-2010-363001/
• http://www.nmsa.org/Publications/MiddleGround/Articles/April2010/Article2/tabid/2166/Default.aspx
• http://changethis.com/manifesto/show/66.01.brainwashed
• http://www.youtube.com/v/ZQZAmr_-WVI