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Lesson 7 ____Read the C2C two announcements in our Dropbox
folder – The Ad council’s $90 million three year Broadband campaign, and the $4
billion digital literacy initiative as but two components of the Connect to
Compete digital literacy corps initiative. (I.E. the two files with C2C in the filename) Here are the links in case you have not accepted your Dropbox invitation: http://lone-eagles.com/C2CAdoption_Announcement.html (one
hour) ____Read
through this lesson,
including items marked “Read,” as separate from those marked optional. View the
short videos also marked “View” as separate from those marked optional. (2
hours) Reflect and
Contribute; ____Post to the
class listserv YOUR suggestions for an Alaskan Campaign. Identify
what matters most, in your view, and how you would propose the ideal campaign
be conducted. Social-L@netpals.lsoft.com (one
hour)
http://lone-eagles.com/C2C_National_Awareness_Campaign.html
The resources and reports from the Alaska broadband task force are at http://connectak.org
C2C evolved to become http://everyoneon.org
and in 2015, the Broadband Opportunity Council Report was related on
how 30 Executive Branch agencies are tasked to do more for adoption and
measurable empowerment. An optional 40 page read: $10 billion for
rural broadband, and smart training advised.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/broadband_opportunity_council_report_final.pdf
That Used to Be Us!
Thomas
Friedman’s new book “That Used to Be Us!“
is
about America’s loss of leadership both economically and as the innovative hub
of the world.
A Thoughtful Look in the Mirror:
Powerpoint bullets:
Seeking American Innovations for Global Competitiveness
The Internet has fueled a global boom in bottom-up
innovation BECAUSE everyone online can learn from the innovations of others.
Due to the accelerating pace of change, the volume
of new innovations we can all benefit from is booming
The most scalable mass entrepreneurial educational
solution is distance learning leveraging social media and peer mentoring using
mobile devices
Everyone both learner and teacher,
both consumer and producer, ALL THE TIME!
Fast
Facts:
86% of new jobs come from small businesses with less
than 12 employees.
Online tools (in the cloud) are getting more
powerful, easier to use, more interconnected, and more mobile.
Everyone can easily teach others online using
“Show Me” videos (www.jingproject.com
-View the Demo)
The number of mobile devices doubled in the last
year,
now more devices than people. 328 vs 315 million
2 billion online globally, with billions more within
5 years, mobile commerce booming internationally, as the Global Market for
American innovations
Status of American Education and Innovation
Today’s current generation is the first to be less
educated than their parents
Dropout rate exceeds 50% in our 17 largest cities,
70% on many reservations
One in 100 Americans are in prison, 75% in prison
are HS drop outs
College costs up 600% since 1980 – the ROI is in
question with graduates unemployed – current demonstrations on Wall Street
America Can Do Better Than This!
One Big Question: Is Very Individual
The Big Question: What’s the best an individual,
or community, can do for themselves without outside funding?
The Big Answer: Collaborate with others to keep everyone
up to the same instant of progress – aware of current best practices at all
levels.
Proposed is a Civilian Cyber Corps (CCC)
Millions of Americans are more than ready to act, but who will lead?
This is everyone’s responsibility; We have the tools
at our fingertips.
THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY!
What
Gets Measured Gets Done
The Top-Down must learn how to partner meaningfully
with the Bottom-up.
Regional Strategies need a scalable local community
action plan as to how best to quickly grow an entrepreneurial culture
New School and Community Synergies will likely prove
necessary in order to mitigate the impacts of shrinking budgets
END PPT
Identifying
How Best to Teach Innovation, Imagination, and Expansive Thinking
We
are all challenged with learning to think globally, and as educators committed
to sticking to required standards, we might consider how best to teach the innovation and imagination
process. Teaching literally the
process of expansive thinking, which some call right brain, spatial, or global
thinking, as compared to left brain, linear thinking, is a topic Dan Pink
writes and speaks about as essential for success in the 21st
Century.
Dan
Pink’s Whole New Mind – Of particular interest for Right Brainers
Review: A
Whole New Mind | Daniel Pink
http://www.danpink.com/whole-new-mind
(10 minutes)
View: RSA Animate: DRIVE: What really motivates us. By Dan Pink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc&feature=related
(10 minutes)
View: First in a six part series of short videos on the book “A Whole New Mind” by Dan Pink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFL30u5BdLc (10 minutes)
See also "Mindset" searchable at Amazon.com - in short, there are two
kinds of people, 1. those who wish to impress everyone on how smart
they already are,
and 2. Those who understand learning and growth are ongoing ways of
being, instead of pretending you are a know-it-all. Which are you?
In
reading about the FCC’s Connect to Compete Initiative;
What Alaskan specific
campaign messages would you recommend to the Ad Council for their 3 year, $90
million dollar broadband campaign messaging?
What
made, or still makes, America great? Isn’t it that we can all come together to
do what needs to be done?
Do
we need to restate the real problem, followed by a call to action for all Americans, to actually up and do something?! What could everyone possibly do to see
their tangible contributions toward meaningful progress, in concert with the
actions of many others?
(Hint:
Local wikis, jings, nings, udemy.com, p2pu.org, etc.)
A Campaign
for What Exactly?
What
problem are we trying to solve with broadband? What do we really need or want a
campaign for? Is what matters most - a campaign for broadband and digital
literacy? Or do we need a campaign for supporting our educators, funding for
schools, or for educational reform, or a campaign of caring, or for civic responsibility,
or collaborative engagement for public problem solving at all levels?? A
campaign for more STEM graduates? For more adults involved in getting college
degrees? For more creativity and innovation? What would be at the top of your list!?
Redefining
the local learning society, in a reputation economy, centered on American
values of honor, trust, bravery, innovation, generosity, doing what needs to be
done, sounds good, yes?
It
will be what rural Alaskans and Americans learn to actually DO with broadband
that will determine their level of global competitiveness and benefits. Instead
of talking about the confusing infrastructure term “broadband” perhaps we need
to talk about “connectedness, and to
whom, what, and why?”
How
best can we all learn to retain traditional values and wisdom while adapting to
new digital opportunities for sustainable families, communities, and cultures?
Isn’t
“digital” already a part of Native culture in most Alaskan Native villages?
The
number of new smartphones and Facebook users alone suggests it is!
Can
we leverage this new interest to create a local learning society, as intentionally
innovative communities?
Read "Community
Networking: Leveraging the Public Good Electronically"
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/networking.htm
Read: Creating
People-Centered Community Knowledge Networks
and
take the short Smart Community Quiz
(Don’t send it to your instructor.)
http://lone-eagles.com/smart.htm
Read: Wanted: Broadband and Broader Minds
http://www.dailyyonder.com/wanted-broadband-and-broader-minds
(See the Navajo Youth Chocolate Success Story)
Read The New Gold Rush (Optional)
http://lone-eagles.com/mining.htm
Read: The War Against Ignorance (Optional)
http://lone-eagles.com/hope.htm
(45
minutes)
Redefining Digital Literacy
and Integrating the other 21st Century Literacies
Digital
literacy is not a matter of large corporations putting more training online in
a patronizing top down manner. Digital literacy is about people learning from
each other what they can do for themselves creating effective collaborations
for ongoing sharing of best practices that produce practical benefits.
As
an educator consider integrating the following:
21st Century literacies; info-literacy, media literacy, digital
literacy, financial literacy, entrepreneurial literacy, and integrating the
seven intelligences, and preferred learning styles, while considering learner
trends toward shorter attention spans and multitasking. (Optional: at
google.com select Images and search “seven intelligences” and or “21st
Century Literacies”) Lesson one
has a fascinating list of Howard Rheingold’s extensive work on 21st
Century Literacies.
Pilot
projects are proposed for showcasing what communities can “Do for themselves,
together” both as individual communities in the short term, and as functional
coordinated “communities of communities” sharing innovations, mentors, and
mutual opportunities on an ongoing basis.
With
the New Normal; everything hangs on local engagement, new metrics, and sharing
innovations as they emerge – acknowledging the boom in bottom up innovations. A
challenge competition for effective online peer mentoring and Train-The-Trainer
programs based on authentic measurable skills transfer outcomes would quickly
produce a great deal of innovation and invaluable online instructional content.
There
needs to be something Americans can do together to validate we're still the
best society in the world.
Even more exciting would be to create a genuine global showcase of
Alaskan innovations on what exactly Alaskans have innovatively used broadband
for to demonstrate benefits for sustainable families, communities and cultures.
Articulating the Ultimate
Alaskan Innovations Showcase Pilot Project
The stage is set, the stars have aligned, and you, as an educator,
are at the helm.
What gets measured gets done - and new metrics that build trust
based on the authenticity of "Real Results for Real People" are
needed.
Mining raw human potential is the new gold rush, nations are now
in direct competition for measurable best practices for unlocking the latent
human potential of the masses. How best...the Top Down can meaningfully
partner with the Bottom Up is your opportunity for innovation. The politics
in our age of transparency means that the age of the politics of appearances is
over.
In 1988, the Big Sky Telegraph (BST) started with a simple goal -
to maintain the BEST online training suitable for the MOST people requiring the
LEAST time, effort, cost, and prerequisite literacy. BESTMOSTLEAST solutions
are evolving quickly, and no one should suffer wasted time and effort dealing
with any training other than proven best practices.
When BST first connected educators in 100 one-room rural schools
in the late 1980's, we offered a free online short course on the basics with a
diploma and embroidered three inch patch upon completion, and they were
authorized to then formally teach the same course to others as Big Sky
Telegraphers - forging the online trail that others may follow.
As you know, giving poor folks a grand piano (broadband) doesn't
presume they will make music. There are poverty mindsets that perpetuate
poverty. Growing an entrepreneurial culture starting in primary grades will
prove to be the fastest means to break this cycle of perpetual poverty.
Creating motivated self-directed learners is the only way the promise of
broadband can be fully realized. Teaching the "Love of Learning" is
the top level challenge.
The secret, is what people won't do for themselves, they WILL do
for others if they see that they can truly make a difference mitigating the
dire needs of others. They will discover new sources of self-esteem and
motivation in the process of Learning-to-Learn....which leads to Learning to
Earn.
The 21st Century Imperative is:
Everyone Both Learner and Teacher, Both Consumer and Producer, All
the Time.
So, we need a new form of online Teachers Academy for Everyone;
America as lifelong University - The Learning Society. And the best way to
learn something - is to teach it to others. We need to reframe, and reinvent,
how, and what we learn regarding "What Matters Most."
Rural Innovation Diffusion:
If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It!
Rural innovation diffusion is an interesting area of study. In the past, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, made sense. Today, nearly everything that was working, suddenly isn’t anymore. Our fear of change from the past is prohibiting many of us from embracing the necessary change that will prove to be the only way out of the hole we are currently in. Many of us have retrenched instead of preparing to take action.
Optional Read:
Innovation Diffusion; Looking at the Process of Change
http://lone-eagles.com/innovation.htm
Ten
years ago, many grassroots experiments in community networking socio-economic
capacity building were underway, as were many community technology centers.
When each project was able to win grants, they preferred to do their own thing.
CTC’s worked on the model of people sitting in front of computers receiving
direction from an onsite educator, often reinventing curriculum other projects
had already created. CTC’s were not teaching online collaboration, or using
Elearning, which was what community networks were all about.
In
a similar manner, many rural communities still believe they are in competition
with each other for limited funding, and tend to not share information or work
together, even on common sense Win-Win efforts like sharing rural innovations
and best practices.
Most
of these past projects touched less than 10% of their often very large
communities, and ownership of a home computer, access and costs to adequate
home internet, and lack of awareness and training were all barriers to the
desired socio-economic capacity building end result. As is still common today,
many older elected officials at all levels did not share the vision for digital
tools building community capacity.
Generally,
people preferred to be solo basement browsers, doing their own thing, and
generally were not aware of, or committed to, the opportunity for exponential
impacts on their community by working collaboratively with others.
In
2011, social media and mobile devices are booming in popularity due to new
advancements with technology at all levels, and in large part due to Facebook
having attracted 800,000,000 users eager to share photos, video, and news with
friends and family. In addition, businesses at all levels are eager to exploit
this new platform through advertising and social strategies promoting their
brand.
The
greatest economic crisis since the great depression has many people talking
about how best to reestablish America as the world’s economic leader, and #1
source of competitive innovations, despite our poor performance in education,
and broadband speed availability and affordability.
November,
2010, I met James Rosenberg, social media director for the World Bank, at an
Ipad and Digital Storytelling Thinktank hosted by the Dallas Morning News. He
told me the resistance to adopting broadband is unique to North America - his
experience everywhere else is that the benefits are obvious.
James
Rosenberg: Social Media Director for the World Bank
Email:
Jerotus@gmail.com @jerotus on twitter
His
Blog is http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech
We
might ask what's working elsewhere that we might bring to Alaskan communities,
or conversely, how America's instructional entrepreneurship innovations might
help the global poor elevate themselves into the middle class.
Think Globally, Act
Locally.
An
invisible transfer is taking place, rural citizens are heading to the big city
to find work, even as many who have learned to telecommute via Internet pass
them on the highway, intending to reclaim the cherished rural lifestyle lost by
others.
Microloans,
cash transfer via text messages from smartphones, and other innovations have
billions excited to now be entering the middle class, even as millions in
America are slipping back into poverty from their previous middle class status.
Thinking Globally:
Gates Foundation's Global Citizen Initiative: http://globalcitizen.org
View the foodfamilies images at http://lone-eagles.com/foodfamilies.jpg
Click on an image
and all images should resize to be viewable. Scroll through the photos and
watch how much money each family spends per week on food.
View: The best Music Rap video on
Microfinance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brXbTahFSaY
(4 minutes)
(The
chorus is “VOTE” as part of a funding competition)
View Grameen Foundation's Micro Loans and ICTs Program
http://www.grameenfoundation.org/ Mohammed Kunus’ new book “building
social business A Video Interview with M. Kumus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPk2gRuIdj0&feature=related
(7 minutes)
Grameen
microloans have come to Queens, NY, America!
http://grameenamerica.org (Optional)
Isn’t a National Broadband
Campaign Everyone’s Responsibility?
Just
whose responsibility is it to rally all Americans around a solution, whether it
is buying home broadband connections, becoming online entrepreneurs or
something else? Who are our experts on how to create millions of
broadband-enabled jobs, and/or globally competitive businesses? Too many of our
educational institutions are still in the last century, as most students will
tell you directly.
Thinking Globally, Acting
Locally
Digital
technologies can empower our local cultures and communities in very significant
ways. As we embrace our own cultures, we must recognize that in a very real
sense, everyone worldwide is becoming part of a global monoculture, as our one
human family begins to recognize our commonalities as well as our rich
diversity. We’re all in the process of becoming global citizens as connectivity
continues to make the world smaller. The recent economic impacts on the U.S.
economy from the European economic crisis underscores our new interdependencies.
Teaching the Love of Learning and Local and Global Citizenship,
in the 21st Century
Since the
Internet became popularized in 1995 with the WWW, comparing geographical
communities and virtual communities has caused people to think hard about just
what constitutes meaningful “community.”
Many will
argue the prime role of schooling is socialization, but in the 21st
Century, exactly what that means is an open question, is it local civic
engagement, is it global citizenship, is it online collaborative skills, or all
these and more? And what do we teach our students about global competitiveness
as related to local economic development awareness and potential future jobs in
our age of accelerating change?
“Thinking Globally....”
Consider Your Role in Creating a Local Community Action Plan...
“Acting Locally.”
Which could
be as simple as a few people working on a wiki collecting the best resources and
innovations from other communities and global sources.
Schools
are the social hub of most rural communities, and also for suburban and urban
neighborhoods. Consider your current community outreach programs, and those
evolving rapidly in your peer communities. Some use Powerschool.com and many
are now using Facebook due to the reality it is already literally in the hands
of most parents, community members, and students (whether their parents know,
or approve, or not.)
If
a primary role of schools is to teach citizenship and socialization, then how
we can teach students to create and maintain a responsible digital identity is suddenly
–“on the table.”
Social
recognition for civic contributions, such as mentoring others, ideally can be
publicly displayed as a general incentive. The Khan Academy video presents one
detailed model rewarding students for successful (stackable) learning
achievements, as well as recognition for their mentoring of peers. While most community volunteers go
uncelebrated, the extra motivation for socially recognized volunteerism may
prove to be very important as “to do more with less” we all need to participate
at a higher level.
It
is being recognized that integrated K12 units that combine service learning,
civic engagement, character development, and social skills along with digital
production skills that demonstrate value-creation at the local community level,
are now a logical next step. Creating value can also be cast as
entrepreneurship, and as helping establish social enterprises.
To
counter funding cuts to schools, alternative sources of revenue are needed. New
partnerships with community businesses, non-profits, community foundations,
along with innovative fund-raising events, and more will be needed. Perhaps
schools could even get into the for-profit e-learning business, providing
communities with the convenience of informal online learning opportunities?
Lesson Feedback:
You're invited
to privately email your instructor:
1. What areas, if any, did you have trouble with during this
lesson?
2. What questions remain now that you've finished this lesson?
3. Approximately how much time did you devote to this lesson?
4. What improvements would you like to suggest?
Optional Resources
Service Learning
Read: How to reduce student dropout rates: link volunteering to studies
Educational service learning not only may engage students in
their community but also help keep them on track for graduation, according to a
Civic Enterprises report. John Bridgeland, the nonprofit's president and CEO,
says 77% of students in service-learning classes reported the experience as
strongly motivating them to work diligently, and 64% credited such classes with
playing a role in keeping them in school. http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2010/0210/How-to-reduce-student-dropout-rates-link-volunteering-to-studies
Review Rural Revitalization
in New Mexico: A Grass Roots Initiative Involving School and Community
www.ruraleducator.net/archive/28-3/28-3_Pitzel.pdf
Explore Working Together:
School-Family-Community Partnerships
A toolkit for New Mexico school communities
http://www.cesdp.nmhu.edu/toolkit/index.asp
Read: U.S. educators seek lessons from Scandinavia High-scoring
nations on an international exam say success stems from autonomy, project-based
learning http://lone-eagles.com/cosnarticle.htm
Community Networking
Read: "Community
Networking: Leveraging the Public Good Electronically"
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/networking.htm
Read: Creating
People-Centered Community Knowledge Networks and take the
short Smart Community Quizhttp://lone-eagles.com/smart.htm
Read "What is Community networking and Why
You Should Care."
Click on
“Community Networking” in the upper left sidebar. This article is from the Community
Technology Review at
http://web.archive.org/web/20110312141144/http://www.comtechreview.org/fall-2005/
A unique publication associated with Americorps and service learning
programs and contains many additional resources hyperlinked in the grey
sidebars in each section. Note particularly the extensive youth digital
storytelling resources.
The Good
Neighbor's Guide to Community Networking
http://lone-eagles.com/cnguide.htm
Chapter Two is highly recommended. Chapter Eleven has many free guides and
community resources!
Read the school and community networking resources page at http://web2fork12classrooms.pbwiki.com See also, digital storytelling at www.storycenter.org
Future-Proofing Communities
http://lone-eagles.com/future-proofing.htm
Civic Engagement
Explore Civic Mind
www.civicmind.org
Civic Education Resource
Community Networking
Resources
http://lone-eagles.com/community.html
Online Giving; Philanthropy and Social Engagement
Jumo.com – Created by cofounder of Facebook, and Obama’s
2008 online campaign manager http://jumo.com
http://blog.jumo.com/post/9037560404/jumo-and-good-combine-forces-to-create-content-and
There are many high end Techie philanthropists already focusing on online
philanthropy, Chris Hughes with jumo.com, as an example. Chris was the facebook
co-founder who ginned up 13,000 local Obama campaign groups, winning $55
million in small contributions in one month.
Kiva.org - Global Giving – Citizen to Citizen
Microloans
http://kiva.org
Citizen
microloans to third world entrepreneurs, and you get your money back with
interests, plus seeing the impact you have made on the lives of those in need.
Shift My Gift
http://www.shiftmygift.com enables anyone, anywhere, to celebrate
any event in their lives by diverting gifts which would have been given to
them, to any charities and nonprofits they care about.
Learn More: http://www.matr.net/article-47442.html
Grantwriting:
You might find
the proposal-writing handouts at http://lone-eagles.com/mira2.htm useful
with your students as a writing/planning/thinking project.
Alaskan Village Grant
templates
http://lone-eagles.com/rural-grant-templates.htm
A lesson on grantwriting for educators:
http://lone-eagles.com/asdnl8.htm
Grantwriting Tips, Guides,
and Funding Sources
http://lone-eagles.com/granthelp.htm
Native Broadband Training
Best Practices
http://lone-eagles.com/best.htm
The FCC Lone Eagle Broadband Training Best Practices Web
Site
U.S. Federal
Communications Commission's Native American Division
has posted broadband training best practices http://lone-eagles.com/best.htm
on their www.fcc.gov/indians
site (listed as Examples of Broadband Training Best Practices) in their
Internet Resources listing: http://www.fcc.gov/indians/internetresources/
The new FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski, has asked those with big ideas to
please speak up. We can expect to see a lot of innovation related to Broadband
and Social Media.
Lone
Eagle Training Guides and Online Courses
http://lone-eagles.com/guides.htm
Extensive online guides for Internet literacy, rural ecommerce and telework,
K12 best uses of Internet for instruction, etc.
Digital literacy Guides
One Economy’s
Digital Literacy Basics
http://thebeehive.org/digitalbasics/
More at http://one-economy.com
PBS “ready to
learn” 11 community pilot sites
Digital
Literacy Corps
http://www.digitalliteracycorps.org/DLC-P2S.html (list of other
sites)
Most of the “other” sites are their own sites, and touting one’s own best
practices and THE best practices, doesn’t mean effort has gone into truly
reviewing the best practices of others.
Netliteracy.org’s
best practices for digital literacy
Digital literacy
resources from federal agencies
http://digitalliteracy.gov
Grassroots
resources are not allowed due to federal policy(?!)
The Americorps
CTC VISTAS program’s Community Technology Review:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110312141144/http://www.comtechreview.org/fall-2005/
Ecommerce and Broadband
Community Toolkits
Connecting Rural
Communities
http://srdc.msstate.edu/ecommerce/curricula/connecting_communities/
A
Beginner’s Guide to Ecommerce
http://srdc.msstate.edu/ecommerce/curricula/beginners_guide
Community
toolkit from the National Ecommerce Initiative.
www.connectingcommunities.info