the real 21st century literacies at tcea 2011
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Tired to hearing the term 21st Century Skills in discussions about education. It's time to look at the real literacies 21st Century citizens will need to be successful. It's about data visualization, computational thinking, continual learning, and team and global collaboration.TRANSCRIPT
The Real 21st Century Literacies
Raymond Rose Bonnie Bracey Sutton Henry Neeman
Rose & Smith AssociatesAustin, Texas
Power of US, Foundation Director
Washington, DC
University of OklahomaNorman, Oklahoma
21st Century Skills Projecthttp://www.p21.org/documents/P21_Framework.pdf
• Global Awareness• Financial, Economic,
Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy
• Civic Literacy• Health Literacy• Environmental Literacy• Learning and Innovation
Skills– Creativity and Innovation– Critical Thinking and Problem
Solving– Communication and
Collaboration
• Information, Media and Technology Skills
– Information Literacy– Media Literacy– ICT (Information,
Communications and Technology) Literacy
• Life and Career Skills– Flexibility and Adaptability– Initiative and Self-Direction– Social and Cross-Cultural Skills– Productivity and Accountability– Leadership and Responsibility
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National Educational Technology Plan 2010
“Professionals routinely use the web and tools such as wikis, blogs, and digital content for the research, collaboration, and communication demanded in their jobs. They gather data and analyze it using inquiry and visualization tools. They use graphical and 3D modeling tools for design”
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Standard Course Sequence
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To THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EDUCATION:The Committee of Ten appointed at the meeting of the National Educational Association at Saratoga on the 9th of July, 1892, have the honor to present the following report:—
http://tmh.floonet.net/books/commoften/mainrpt.html
Supercomputingin Plain English
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What the Heck is Supercomputing?
• Henry Neeman, Director• OU Supercomputing Center for
Education & Research• University of Oklahoma Information Technology
Supercomputingin Plain English
What the Heck is Supercomputing?
Henry Neeman, DirectorOU Supercomputing Center for
Education & ResearchUniversity of Oklahoma Information Technology
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What is Supercomputing?
Supercomputing is the biggest, fastest computing right this minute.
Likewise, a supercomputer is one of the biggest, fastest computers right this minute.
So, the definition of supercomputing is constantly changing.
What is Supercomputing?
Rule of Thumb: A supercomputer is typically at least 100 times as powerful as a PC.
Jargon: Supercomputing is also known as High Performance Computing (HPC) or High End Computing (HEC) or Cyberinfrastructure (CI).
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Fastest Supercomputer vs. MooreFastest Supercomputer in the World
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What is Supercomputing About?
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What is Supercomputing About?
Size: Many problems that are interesting to scientists and engineers can’t fit on a PC – usually because they need more than a few GB of RAM, or more than a few 100 GB of disk.
What is Supercomputing About?
Speed: Many problems that are interesting to scientists and engineers would take a very very long time to run on a PC: months or even years.
But a problem that would take a month on a PC might take only a few hours on a supercomputer.
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What Is HPC Used For?
• Simulation of physical phenomena, such as– Weather forecasting– Galaxy formation– Oil reservoir management
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What Is HPC Used For?
Data mining: finding needles of information in a haystack of data, such as– Gene sequencing– Signal processing– Detecting storms that
might produce tornados
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Moore, OKTornadicStorm
What Is HPC Used For?
Visualization: turning a vast sea of data into pictures that a scientist can understand
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for more info about data visualization…http://www.ted.com/speakers/david_mccandless.html
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Why Bother with HPC at All?Making effective use of supercomputing takes quite a bit of effort, both learning how and developing software.
That seems like a lot of trouble to go to just to get your code to run faster.
It’s nice to have a code that used to take a day, now run in an hour. But if you can afford to wait a day, what’s the point of supercomputing?
Why go to all that trouble just to get your code to run faster?
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Why HPC is Worth the Bother…
What HPC gives you that you won’t get elsewhere is the ability to do bigger, better, more exciting science.
If your code can run faster, that means that you can tackle much bigger problems in the same amount of time that you used to need for smaller problems.
Why HPC is Worth the Bother
HPC is important not only for its own sake, but also because what happens in HPC today will be on your desktop in about 10 to 15 years: it puts you ahead of the curve.
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The Future is Now
Historically, this has always been true:
Whatever happens in supercomputing today will be on your desktop in 10 – 15 years.
So, if you have experience with supercomputing, you’ll be ahead of the curve when things get to the desktop.
Integration of Current Research
Assets NOAA (and other agencies) bring to K-12 STEM Education
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Working Scientists and Engineers Can ensure accuracy, serve as role models, and share
scientific methods
Content Knowledge Access to cutting edge discoveries
Environments Preserves and laboratories provide a venue for hands-
on, locally relevant science
Tools Data and technology
NETP 2010
“…21st century competencies and expertise such as critical thinking, complex problem solving, collaboration, and multimedia communication should be woven into all content areas.”
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Visualization*: New Literacy
• Understanding visual data• Reading and writing (visualizations)
*aka New Media Literacy
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Visual Thesaurus
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Mercator Projection
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Immappancy Data Visualization
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Visualization Resources
• Wordle• Many Eyes
– PhraseNet
• Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
• TACC Scientific Visualization Gallery
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STEM TE(a)MS
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Programs Worth a Look…
• Globaloria– http://www.worldwideworkshop.org/programs/globaloria
• Analytical Integrated Math (AIM)– http://davinci-minds.com/k12-aim.html
• Scalable Game Design– http://scalablegamedesign.cs.colorado.edu/gamewiki/images
/b/b2/Scalable_Game_Design_summary.pdf– http://www.agentsheets.com/about_us/press-
material/documents/ScalableGameDesign.pdf
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Contact Information
Bonnie Bracey [email protected]
Henry [email protected]
Raymond [email protected]