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UniversityRMIT Third Melbourne Computing
Education Conventicle 2006
unauthorised (religious) meeting
•mobile technologies - mobile phones, podcasts,•tablet pc's applied to education, •innovative ideas in CS&IT education and educational research
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UniversityRMIT Third Melbourne Computing
Education Conventicle 2006
Why is education in/of computing sooo important for us?
Digital divide
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UniversityRMIT IT enabled education
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UniversityRMIT IT enables progress
Computers are everywhere and used in every job.Information and communication technologies are the enablers of progress.
Problems in the first world:•Skill shortage! •Not enough good students. Technical jobs are undervalued in our society.•We need to educate IT teachers better.•We need to teach IT better•We need to teach better (and cheaper)
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UniversityRMIT
Computers will soon be freely available to all (Bill Gates)E-learning, online education, artificially intelligent teachers
“Why listen to a mediocre teacher when a Nobel-laureate is only a flat screen away?” (Friedman)
Experimentation – collaboration
How will teaching change?
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UniversityRMIT We live in luxury
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UniversityRMIT Need to change!
IT (supported) – education
6M prison places needed In the USA 8B cost of petrol in USA
1T military spending/yearWaiting time?
Theft, cost
40M infected3M deaths/year
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UniversityRMIT Third world problems
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UniversityRMIT
“The world is flat” (Friedman)IT – ICT is flattening the world Supply chains run around the world. Low wage workers in the third world can compete with “us”. (outsourcing, rent-a-coder, off-shoring) “The End of Poverty” (2025) (Jeffrey Sachs).
Get (IT)-education into the third world for free!
Digital divide
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UniversityRMIT
A 2002 study estimated that 549 million women in the world are illiterate.
Impact of education
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UniversityRMIT
2B people are seriously poor
Impact of education
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UniversityRMIT
Education of women (and men)
→ women’s emancipation/liberation → better quality of life → better health → better democracy
Better education for all
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UniversityRMIT
Computing Education is needed
In all three worlds!
Third Melbourne Computing Education Conventicle 2006
Don’t keep this “unauthorised meeting”
a secret!
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