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Lesson Five: Financial, Business, and
Entrepreneurial Literacies
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Checklist for Lesson 5 Review
Lesson Five: Financial, Business, and Entrepreneurial
Literacies at and review the links in the advanced skillbuilders
section at the end, skipping the Jing task. http://lone-eagles.com/academy5.htm
View the video at http://www.challenge.co Then look
at the training modules at http://www.challenge.co/training
View the short video on Twitter in the Pre-Challenge Training, Day Two. ____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;
____Email to
your instructor YOUR
suggestions for what needs to happen with your choice of one or more
vulnerable
populations with whom you are most personally familiar. Spend 30
minutes
searching for training best practices for one or more specific
vulnerable
populations and ___Include
three or more of your best picks in an email to your instructor. Identify what matters most, in
your view, and how you would
propose the ideal best practices be identified, authentically
evaluated, and
disseminated. (30 minutes) ___Send
your instructor, in a separate message, your own
individualized learning plan (ILP) for what your next step
priorities are, now that you’ve completed the eight lessons. State what
assistance you might still require in order to meet your personal
goals.
Include your intentions for using Twitter, Facebook and/or other
specific tools
that might include inviting others in this class to join you in sharing
topical
resources on an ongoing basis. (30 minutes)
Review the
Challengeplusredux.pdf in the Dropbox folder you've been invited to
join. Email your instructor if you have not yet received your dropbox
invitation. Limit yourself to 30 minutes for this task.
The
Obsolete Teacher
If
you are not growing, you are dying. The relentless passing of our
limited time
means there is no such thing as standing still. “Becoming is superior
to
being.”
In
times of change, learners inherit the Earth
Eric
Fromm
Technophobia
and information overload, either separately and/or together, can cause
one to
come close to a standstill in personal openness to assimilation of new
knowledge. Generally, fear causes one to engage in reductionism,
limiting any
threats to the status quo; this is a natural self-preservation
response. Don’t
worry about picking berries if you have just spotted a bear in the
berry patch.
Drop the bucket and run for your life, or hide! When
it comes to learning more about digital technologies,
some of us quickly duck behind the bushes to hide.
Teachers
who naturally excel at curiosity and self-directed learning, are
building their
capacity to absorb more and more, literally exercising their brains and
mental
muscles. Not only do their abilities to learn more increase, but their
self-efficacy, self-satisfaction, and most importantly their ability to
teach
these same self-actualization behaviors continues to grow. Perhaps even
more
importantly, their ability to exercise their imaginations grow as their
level of
fear of new knowledge decreases, and as their self-confidence grows.
Imagination is
more
important than knowledge
Albert Einstein
The Meaning of
Life: Life
is life’s own purpose, to grow to a level of higher organization,
essentially
the same for a blade of grass, or a human being
Technophobia
and the Risks
of Becoming Obsolete
If
professionalism someday requires measurement of this capability,
(“geekatude,”)
then those teachers who can most effectively model this behavior, and
impart it
successfully to students, as well as to other teachers, and parents,
will be
viewed as distinctly superior to those who are at a standstill.
Does
it make any sense for our elected leaders, and particularly school
superintendents and principals to know less about educational
technologies than
the students? Will teachers who
know less than their students become obsolete in the next five years?
Those
teachers and administrators with low abilities to keep digitally
current, will
inevitably become vulnerable populations, and might find themselves
unemployed.
Authenticating
Best
Practices for Vulnerable Populations
The
chairman of the Alaskan Federation of Natives told me they are
wondering how
best to leverage social media for their organization and membership.
What would
you suggest?
The
new Administration for Native Americans, Alaska Technical Assistance
center
director, asked me the same question; “We have a mandate for a virtual
support
center to include distance learning and social media. We are looking at
paying
$3000/year for Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate.) Which
would you
recommend Ning, Google+ or Facebook, and why?”
My
Answer; Your staff might need training to all get on the same page for
professional uses, and all these tools are evolving quickly, and the
tool
providers are copying each others’ features. It may depend more on how
you want
to structure your staff activities than which tool you pick.
Also,
you want as simple a tool as possible for your clients, for whom ideal
self-directed instructional videos and video captures might be
customized.
It
is likely your public outreach would need to embrace Facebook and
Twitter as
the common social media standard.
How
to structure any of these to go viral, and collaborative engage as many
people as
possible in purposeful collaborative learning and peer mentoring, is
certainly
a key opportunity to explore, starting with assessing what’s working
best for
other organizations dealing with these same challenges and
opportunities.
OPTIONAL
Links:
Alaska’s
ANA office doesn’t have a web page yet, a new team has just been
assembled. The
next round of grant submissions are due January 31st.
Learn
more: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ana/
Socio-economic community
projects:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2011-ACF-ANA-NA-0143
$8 million
is available with 37 awards
averaging over $200,000 anticipated.
Full guidelines are at :
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/view/HHS-2011-ACF-ANA-NA-0143/pdf
Redefining
Vulnerable
Populations:
If
you compare the freedom broadband can give those with physical
disabilities
with the limitations the lack of digital literacy puts on those without
physical disabilities - as the new digitally
disabled, it might make people rethink how we define vulnerable
populations, as this would include many of our elected leaders.
Invisible Disabilities – may include our attitudes
toward
self-directed learning and technology, both conscious and unconscious.
Redefining
Digital Literacy
(review teaching L7)
As
an educator, you know, your original college education was to prepare
you with
the “right stuff” for a lifetime of high quality teaching.
We used to define the right stuff as:
basics, breadth, enrichment, ending in producing a well-rounded
motivated
life-long learner.
The
accelerating pace of change however has shortened the shelf life of
useful
knowledge, and dramatically increased the volume of new knowledge that
is
suddenly central to effective education, as evidenced by the sudden
popularity
of Ipads and the booming world of elearning and social media. The list
of new
knowledge topics we need to consider including across our curriculums
goes on
and on as our integration activity in the last lesson hopefully made
clear.
Hopefully
your ability to motivate yourself to engage in regular self-directed
self-teaching, and collaborative activities to keep yourself up to the
same
instant of process has improved dramatically during this class. (Your
geekatude?) Consider revisiting
the info-diet and geekatude survey to assess your personal growth; http://lone-eagles.com/academy-info-diet.htm
The Most Important Vulnerable
Population: Our Elected leaders
Phd’s
and most persons in top leadership positions, who don’t keep digitally
current,
typically still present themselves as experts on most everything. This
relates
to the politics of appearances for people in position who generally ARE
expected to be on top of things in order to lead. The politics of
control
requires them to present a confident image as leaders: that everything
is
indeed under control.
Typically
they have neither the time, nor the mechanisms, to continue their
education
specific to accelerating change inherent with educational technologies,
as the
array of pressures from their other duties, like shrinking budgets
requires
their priority attention.
This
makes them vulnerable, but not necessarily at fault. One solution would
be
non-technical executive overviews focused on priorities for what they
don’t
know that they need to know, such as the socio-economic capacity
building
potential of youth entrepreneurship programs that elevate the community
wide
understanding of the potential for smart utilization of communications
technologies for sustainable families, communities, and cultures.
Think
about what you know now, that you could summarize in non-technical
terms in 5
minute jings for your own superintendent, principal and peers. As well
as for
parents, community members, local businesses and other organizations
who might want
learn they can better support your school financially, once they
understand we
are all in this together.
Now,
think about yourself as an EDTECH consultant, and Elearning
professional,
creating high quality Jings for specific vulnerable populations, along
with
your producing short training modules focused on their creating rich
media
online resources for their peers. Think about how your info-brokering
skills
might help all these vulnerable populations stay current without their
having
to duplicate the overwhelming task of doing this on their own. You are
ready to
change the world.
Who
Makes Your List of
Vulnerable Populations?
Who
would you list as vulnerable populations and how might WE work together
to
identify genuine best practices, make them readily updated and
available, on an
ongoing basis?
Seniors (Elders)
Individuals with Disabilities
HS Drop outs
Single parents
Rural citizens
Native/ethnic citizens
Teachers
Entrepreneurs
Nonprofits
Elected adult leaders
Low income low literacy adults
ADD YOUR ADDITIONS HERE:
America’s
Historic Challenge to Fund Mass Innovation
Throughout this course we have
touched on
“what is broadband and why should you care.” Telecommunications
companies have pushed for “adoption”
which means paid subscriptions to their for-profit services, without
addressing
any responsibility to provide training or to even measure whether
anyone is benefiting
at any level.
Broadband utilization is
becoming an
issue, but without attention to the specifics for what matters most for
specific
individuals, most pointedly those who are considered members of
vulnerable
populations. That these issues have persisted for 20+ years is
testimony to the
lack of digital literacy of our elected leaders at all levels.
Read: America’s
Historic Challenge to Fund Mass Innovation
(without the risks
of
political backlash due to lack of documented results)
http://lone-eagles.com/getitright.htm
Owning
a Grand Piano
Doesn’t Assure Musicianship
Analogy:
Giving everyone broadband is like giving everyone a grand piano and
expecting
Virtuosos. For those inspired and motivated to learn, broadband can be
truly
transformative and open doors for self satisfaction and dramatic
scalable
global impacts, ideally producing more than the actions of a single
individual
exponentially leveraging potential *collaborative impacts - in “concert” with others, world
wide.
This
single fact is perhaps the #1 message of this course, in case I didn’t
hammer
hard enough. To meet the challenges of the dire needs of the modern
day, we all
need to learn specifically how to leverage effective collaboration,
which is
far more than the sum of individual effort. Exponential
means the more participants the greater and
greater the outcomes. Facebook now has 800 million users, ambling
around
playing and learning, but in an evolutionary sense it is inevitable
more and
more examples of smart collaboration will soon evolve to the point
where
virtual nations of purpose will outperform physical nations and more.
The
first video you viewed for this course was the Virtual Choir, remember?
We're limited
only by our imaginations as our one human family learns to join voices,
virtually.
Keeping
everyone to the same instant of progress on emerging better best
practices is
not a warm fuzzy generality, but an
actionable dynamic. And if you are watching the news we are seeing
more and
more dramatic proofs on a regular basis. What’s next? We’re limited
only by our
collective imagination.
Alaska’s
Broadband campaign could be championing themes of the historic first
opportunity for everyone to learn anything, anytime from anywhere, and
to focus
on self-actualization goals, not just for personal self-efficacy and
satisfaction, but in order to do what needs to be done. With POWER
Comes
Responsibility.
When
Chief Sitting Bull was captured, he said “Don’t feed my people, it will
make
them a lazy nation.” And when
Sidney Huntington, a well known elder on the Yukon presented his
wisdom, he
said “Don’t give those kids nothin’; (and with a smile and a wink) Make
them
work for it.” His wisdom shined as
the point was that self-esteem comes from what we learn to create
ourselves,
not from what others give us.
Egov
trends:
Due
to shrinking budgets at all levels, cost savings via Egov are under
review. For
example, Wyoming’s 10,000 public employees are now using Google’s Egov
software
suite. With 50% of Wyoming jobs in the public sector, many in small
towns will
be replaced by services in the “Cloud.”
Brick and Mortar “One-stops” will be replaced by online
services. This
creates a problem for governments at all levels. All vulnerable
populations who
are most in need of govt. services will then HAVE to know how to get
access to
these services.
Three
Levels Comparing Needs
to Abilities:
From each according to their
abilities,
to each according to their needs.
Karl Marx and Dr. Benjamin
Spock
Level
One to call for help as necessary.
Does
this mean they need OnStar in their home, where they can push a button
and ask
for help? If they have fallen and can’t get up, there are lifeline
bracelets
with a button they can push.
Or
do they need home Internet and training in digital literacy? If so, how
much
training? It depends on their abilities, needs, and level of interest.
Level
Two: Self-sufficiency
The
ability to use Internet to search for one’s own health information
needs and to
use the communications tools to overcome social isolation. Skype and
other
communications tools can fight depression caused by social isolation,
and allow
a homebound person to encourage and support other who are in similar
situations. Assessing what abilities for self-sufficiency can minimize
the need
and costs associated with OnStar services.
Level
Three: Motivation and Ability to Assist Others
The
high end potential here has yet to be determined and we’re likely to
discover
we are limited only by our imaginations. I predict most vulnerable
populations
will find the self-satisfaction for being able to provide encouragement
and
meaningful support to others will prove to be a major incentive, and
will
become a national solution to lower costs and improve services at a
time when
no other option exists.
What
IF?
What
if we were able to empower and mobilize the imaginations of everyone
who is a
member of any of these diverse vulnerable populations? What if we were
able to
motivate, train, and hire them all to effectively leverage the
exponential
power of effective collaboration?
Can we invent low cost short term pilot projects to experiment
with demonstrating
“proof of concept” dynamics?
Imagine
a best case Civilian Cyber Corps as THE call to action for all
Americans to
engage personally in building socio-economic capacity locally,
nationally, and
globally.
Read: Mapping the Future: Mapping
Smartest Broadband Utilization
http://lone-eagles.com/larrypage.doc
Specific pilot project recommendations send directly to: Vint Cerf,
father of
the Internet and Google thought leader, Google CEO and founder, Larry
Page, and
Anne Neville, director of the NTIA National Broadband Mapping project.
Case
Study Example: Independent
Living Support by Telecare Innovations
A
senior with dementia might need video telemonitoring, where someone can
look
through passive video cameras regularly to be sure this person is OK.
Another
senior without dementia, but possibly physically disabled, might be
paid as a home-based
telecare paraprofessional to monitor the senior with dementia.
The
potential is lower overall healthcare costs, the advantage of allowing
independent living for the individual with dementia, and a home-based
business
income for the senior with a physical disability. Once congress votes
to allow
Medicare reimbursement for home telecare services, Mom and Pop home
Telecare
businesses will be able to proliferate creating tens of thousands of
new jobs
while lowering national healthcare costs by tens of millions if not
tens of
billions.
But,
since this vote hasn’t happened yet, 20% of patients at the Maui
Community
Hospital remain hospitalized (primarily dementia) instead of enjoying
independent living at home. Larry Carter and his wife have a home
telecare
business, that is severely limited due to policies that prohibit caring
for
those above.
Larry D. Carter Ph.D
(808)-281-6080
Manager-Partner
Maui AgeWave LLC
Review: www.mauiagewave.com and view the interactive care demo
Working
with Hawaii’s aging and disability
organization for four months, I wrote a lot on this topic. Since most
seniors
will end up with one or more disabilities, this is a mainstream issue
as the
Silver Tsunami is upon us as a nation.
Review: http://lone-eagles.com/hcil-resources.htm
50
million Americans have a disability, over 100 million have someone with
a
disability in their family. That is one person in three. We referenced
that
physically disabled folks can mentor those with digital disabilities,
online,
too, but if we were to include the count on how many suffer from
digital
disabilities, estimates are 100 million Americans still do not see the
relevance of broadband.
Evaluating
Genuine Best
Practices.
A
number of large digital literacy non-profits do not post any free
resources,
even those from other sources, as they are really commercial
businesses. In my
mind this is contradictory to the public good mission non-profits are
supposedly dedicated to.
Conversely,
Lone Eagle is a social enterprise collecting and disseminating free
resources,
plus decades of sharing my own curriculums, but I’ve been told that
Federal
policy prohibits recognizing and/or sharing my free resources. Federal
Agency
digital literacy resources have been posted at http://digitalliteracy.gov
If
everyone does their own thing promoting their own stuff as "best
practices" WITHOUT bothering to see whether better best practices
exist,
then no one is being really honest and those we're supposedly
benefiting will
not receive what they need.
Read: Best
Practices for Benefiting from Slow and Fast Broadband
http://lone-eagles.com/bestpractices.doc
(10 pages)
Review:
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/
Optional
Reading
Global
Best Practices for ICT Capacity-building Activities for Rural
Communities http://lone-eagles.com/social-engineering.htm
A Lone Eagle Whitepaper
presented to 21
nations at the request of NTIA, for the Asian Pacific Economic
Cooperation
summit in Tokyo, Japan, 2008.
Lone Eagle Online
Curriculums and Guides
http://lone-eagles.com/guides.htm
Essays on Native
innovations;
http://lone-eagles.com/nativehearts.htm
Recommendations for 36
Tribal Colleges
http://lone-eagles.com/aihec.htm
Accelerated
Learning Activity: Quickly Learn Twitter, Facebook and Tweetdeck
Required:
View the videos marked View:
Optional:
Creating a Twitter and Facebook account
Less
is More: Microblogging on Twitter
Twitter is popular as a micro-blogging solution which limits messages to 128 character – forcing brevity and ideally producing palatable wisdom bits when aggregated together, to make best use of our limited time, and some level of condensed useful information.
Optional:
Create a Twitter account,
and post your own theme on your Twitter Homepage. Sign up to follow at
least
three professional persons who are actively using twitter, and for two
weeks
post your own tweets a minimum of once a day. Post your twitter tag
like
@fodasz to the class listserv.
View: the Twitter short video at http://commoncraft.com
View:
Twitter for Beginners http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwn-8mRB_I8
Spend a half hour reviewing
Twitter Basics at https://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics
with more at http://twitter.com
Use one of the url shortening
sites to post at least one
URL.
For example; go to http://bit.ly and
enter a url and it will give you
one back that is shorter. I just did this for lone-eagles.com and in 2
seconds
it gave me; http://bit.ly/u9iDvu
View: Four Twitter
apps for educators
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYWYSI_j-kk
Optional:
Create
a Facebook account, if
you don’t already have one, and build your understanding of what you
can do to
promote a cause, and/or your instructional consulting business, by
learning to
post content using as many Facebook tools as you have time to learn.
Note most
training videos are under 5 minutes, and move quickly, as is generally
accepted
as the required standard.
View: Learning
Facebook’s New Features
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uJNRpYyot8
(7 minutes)
I
found this at youtube simply by searching for learning facebook and
since this
video is from hottipscentral.com I now have that sight for “more like
this.”
Note this is one of a series of videos and the link to the next one is
at the
upper right of this video. In question is are there better sites than
this one;
very likely.
View: Facebook
Top 20 Learning Applications
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRhvnTHAqek
I
hope you are getting the idea how easy this can be, at this link note
the long
list of videos specific to using Facebook in the classroom on the right
sidebar.
Lots
of videos on social media if you search for social media in the
classroom, in
education, etc., but how do you find the best ones? Those would be
promoted by
teachers turned consultants who post the best of the best via their
blogs,
twitter, and other ways of displaying their expertise.
I
searched - learning tweetdeck - and found
View: “Learning
Tweetdeck for Rapid Elearning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo_QvekteJI
Lesson
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You're invited
to privately email your instructor:
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