ICT Education Transformation and Economic Development: an analysis of the US National Education Technology Plan.

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.