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Trail Blazing....

In reference to computer technology, it seems to me that those born before 1970 are the tourists and those born after 1970 are the natives in the land of hardware and software applications. Maybe, fo…

Started by Ellen Moore May. 20, 2008.

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Comment by JOSEPH BERNARD GORINI on October 28, 2009 at 7:12am: There is another way to look at the situation. Typically, there is a "cultural lag" after breakthrough tecnological innovation. This is surely the case with regard to continuing technological innovations in information techbnology (data capture, storage, manipulation, and access). Generally, the problem in the field of Education is that cultural lag-time is stratified mostly by age and wealth factors. With regard to age, generally, we have students more IT-competent than teachers, administrators, and policy-makers. With IT-integrated so deeply into our lives that makes school systems look arcaic if not ridiculous. The greater disconnect (Drucker predicted the Age of Discontinuity) is that school systems have not been reengineered aroundf IT to be faster, better, cheaper. This could lead to extinction (ala the dinosaurs) by replacement - just look at the rate of death of colleges.