Slide 1: Change in the Wind: Higher Education and Technology
Colleen Carmean February 2007 Arizona State University
Slide 2: The question:
If I said I can give you a tool that will hugely increase your ability to retrieve and to convey complex ideas over space and time, and that would completely change your relationship to exchanging information with others at any distance both forward and backward in time, and if I said, you can have this but the consequences are going to be incredible political instability, the destruction of the self as you know and understand it, the robbing of your memory, not to mention all sorts of other costs, would it now make you think twice about whether or not you would want to embrace this? Would you: 1.Think twice, step back and reflect on the consequences or 2. Plunge Forward and embrace consequences?
Slide 3: “The technology, of course, is writing, and no other subsequent technology we’ve come up with has been as world-shattering and world-transforming as that.”
Richard Powers National Book Award Winner 2006 for “The Time of Our Singing”
Slide 4: most pressing technology issues facing higher education today?
Slide 5: 1.Security
Slide 6: 2.Support
Slide 7: 3.Information literacy and preparedness for the digital age
Slide 8: Security
Slide 9: SANS Institute:(SysAdmin, Audit,
Network, Security) Top Attack Targetsdata, the network, identity
Slide 10: Data Security
Backups Laptop encryption Authentication Virus Protection Software Updates Security Releases and Patches
Slide 11: Network Security
Firewall Configuration Hackers Worms Denial of Service Attacks Intrusions, malicious code, logic bombs, trap doors, buffer overflow, format string attacks, hijacks..
Slide 12: Identity Security
Awareness & Advocacy: Information Availability MySpace & FaceBook FERPA Password Strength Email Hoaxes & Scams Phishing
Slide 13: Support:
Advocacy Training Testing & Implementation Maintenance Development Delivery Applied Research
Slide 14: Support of Technology
In the classroom In public spaces In the offices
Slide 15: Support for Usage
On the phone In person Using IM Via Web documentation In discussion forums As needed, where needed, when needed
Slide 16: Digital Literacy:
Slide 17: Literacy for the Knowledge Age
Find, evaluate, synthesize, and create knowledge and information Incorporate graphical, aural and complex textual media Help learners prepare for the digital age Constantly adapt to new technologies
Slide 18: From push/passive to pull/active
Wikis Blogs Google logic/authority of consensus Collaboration and consensus tools Tag clouds RSS feeds Visual galleries & meta-tagging Social bookmarking IM & text messaging Mobile computing Social spaces…
Slide 19: Learning Environments:
creating the architectural “third space” for education--where we choose to be, on campus and online from classroom to studio from fixed to flexible from static to dynamic from prescribed to desired from the classroom to anywhere/anytime learning
Slide 20: Technology leadership needs in HE include the ability to: Listen Reflect Evaluate Synthesize Research Inspire Collaborate Create consensus Dream Imagine Grow Support
Slide 21: Finally…
A question for us all to ponder: What will it take to change the institutions we built into the institutions the next generation needs?
