ICT
Education Transformation and Economic Development: an analysis of the
US National Education
Technology
Plan.
NETP: Education is the key to economic
grouth and prosperity and to our ability to compete in the global
economy and education#
ICT are made about the availability
and acces of al teacher and students to broadband conectivity,
internet devices, software etc...
Five sorts of research and reviewed
in this article:
-Macroeconomic research showing that
over the past several decades the US economies have undergone a
fundamental shift from a manufacturin economy to and information
economy.
-Also research showing that individual
firms are undergoing significant changes in organizational
structure.
-Labor market and workforce studies;
the kind of jobs that our economy needed.
-Studies showing patterns of the
everyday ICT use in American Life.
-Studies showing that Amercian schools
are not using ICT in a significant way.
Macroeconomic Trends
-US economy has undergone profound
changes over the past several decades
-1950 construction and manufacturate of
material foods
-1990 manufactured goods and material
services had dropped to 39% employing only 43%
-2007 material good and services
accounted for only 35% of economic output and 40% of jobs
The same year a wordwide recession
began.
The economy shed 7.2 millions jobs and
the jobless rate reached 10%
-2009-”Big Three” Auto Makers
declared bankruptcy.
-GM and Chrysler are in bankrupty court
and Ford was valued at a meager $43 billion.
-Education reform policy, prepare
Americans to compete in the global economy.
Changes in business organization and practices.
-ICT contributed to economicchange.
-Microeconomic studies confirm the impact of ICT on business practice.
-Connection between ICT use and productivity.
-The success of highy productive, innovative firms is associated with the use of ICT as part of a constellation of mutually reinforcing
organizational structures.
-Productivity increases come by using ICT
-Companies are identifying and solving problems, creating new products and services.
-Education policies and pedagogical practices that emulate and perpetuate the top-down.
Labor Market Trens: need for a differente skill set
-The restructuring, reorganization and uptake of economy, work and ICT have corresponded to a need for increased education and skill on the part of the labor force.
-1973-2000 the percentage of US workers with some post-secondary education increased.
-The new economy requiers and additional set of skills.
-Karmarkar & Apte found that as ICT was taken up by firms.
-Computerization of the workplace has increased demand for problem-solving and comunications skills
-The net effect is that companies in the United States are hiring workers with a higher skill set.
Social trends: everyday ICT Practices.
-The pervasiveness of ICT across the country has had a significant social impact on America.
-The skills is a tremendous human capital resource
The current state of US education
-Education has played a crucial role in US country's economic
-1900 that schooling as we kn ow it today came to be defined and standarized into the "school grammar"
-The more educated workforce the more productive the economy, and as the economy grows more prosperous.
The urgent need for educational change.
-Waves of economic and social change associated with the introduction of transformative technologies
-The new technologies came to be extremely creative forces as well
-The new missions of schools is to prepare students to work at jobs that don't yet exist creating ideas and solutions.
-NETP recomments re-thinking the basic assumptions about school structure.
-Obama declared that education is an economic issue- If not "the" economic issue of our time.
