University RMIT Third Melbourne Computing Education Conventicle 2006 unauthorised (religious)...

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

UniversityRMIT Third Melbourne Computing

Education Conventicle 2006

Why is education in/of computing sooo important for us?

Digital divide

UniversityRMIT IT enabled education

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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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?

UniversityRMIT We live in luxury

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

UniversityRMIT Third world problems

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“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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A 2002 study estimated that 549 million women in the world are illiterate.

Impact of education

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2B people are seriously poor

Impact of education

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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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Computing Education is needed

In all three worlds!

Third Melbourne Computing Education Conventicle 2006

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