Poor learning experience = Budget Cuts + reduced resources + lesser activities = Unhappy students

Happy Engaged students = Disruptive innovation

THE INSURGENT: A GREAT WHITE IN A BLUE OCEAN

Streamlined body allows it to move with deadly efficiencyCartilaginous skeleton gives it

unmatched flexibility

Heightened senses and receptors allow it to identify and locate even the faintest of opportunities

Powerful muscles combined with rows of razor-sharp teeth mean this insurgent has the resources to turn this Blue Ocean RED

THE INSURGENT: How It Works

Low CostBetter Student ExperienceAbility to track the progress of

students

Numerous students from different parts of the state may be logged in at one time and taught by the same teacher.

Multiple Languages Offered

THE INSURGENT: What Is Required

Network Effects

Students

Internet, Computer, Headset

Qualified Teacher

A bit of good news: There are some barriers to entry that the insurgent must overcome...

Being a public institution funded by taxpayer dollars acts as a safety net, driving parents toward the system for which they already pay while discouraging predators

The natural barriers created by time

Combined with misperceptions of the effectiveness of old technology

Perpetuate the life of a fragile and outdated ecosystem

However, the insurgents will come, and we must ask ourselves:

AS THE INCUMBENT, HOW DO WE SURVIVE?The way defined by the Laws of Nature: ADAPTATION

Unfortunately, years of absence of any real threat has allowed us to become: oversized, slow, set in our ways, and equipped with inefficient appendages.

CA Dept of Education

TRIMMING THE FAT TO BUILD A LEANER DOE

The DOE’s budget issues have caused: mass pink slips, school closures, furlough days, and impacted class sizes. This blood in the water has attracted the sharks

TRIMMING THE FAT TO BUILD A LEANER DOE

Complicating the issue: The power – both economic & emotional – of the Teachers’ Union.How does the DOE meet budget constraints AND avoid a strike... or worse?

HIGH-SPEED EVOLUTION: STEPS TO SURVIVAL1) INTRODUCE THE SOLUTION AND BE UP FRONT WITH THE TRADEOFFS

Today’s technology allows a foreign language lesson to be broadcast into multiple classrooms

The benefits are two-fold: we remain competitive in our language offerings, and we rein in the budget

The reduction in headcount, while unfortunate, prevents the need for across-the-board cuts (which have led to strikes). Also, this reduction will preserve future jobs by effectively addressing the current threat

HIGH-SPEED EVOLUTION: SOLUTION TO SURVIVAL2) GET THE UNION IN ON THE LONG VIEW. THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT THE SQUEEZE THEY FEEL NOW IS BUILDING TOWARD A CRUSH

Parents increasingly spend $$ to address public education gaps

Frustrated, parents look outside the system

The insurgents capitalize, and draw masses of students out of the system

The rise of the for-profit model further drains the public education coffers, and the decline worsens

ABOUT CROWS by John Ciardi

The old crow is getting slow; the young crow is not.

Of what the young crow does not know,the old crow knows a lot.

At knowing things, the old crow is stillthe young crows master.

What does the old crow not know? How to go faster.

The young crow flies above, below, andRings around the slow old crow.

What does the fast young crow not know?WHERE TO GO?

VLE VLE SchoolSchool

The OLD CROWS = California Department of Education needs the help of the YOUNG CROWS = Innovative Technology to improve and sustain the offerings

We want CA Dept of Education We want CA Dept of Education to be the Early adopters so that they can reap maximum to be the Early adopters so that they can reap maximum

benefits gained due to scale and volumebenefits gained due to scale and volume

CLOUD COMPUTING FOR LANGUAGE LEARNINGCLOUD COMPUTING FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING

Combination of Private and Public cloud Combination of Private and Public cloud provides maximum benefitprovides maximum benefit

Web 2.0 provides Virtual Learning EnvironmentWeb 2.0 provides Virtual Learning Environment

Facilities provided by VLEFacilities provided by VLE

Benefits from adopting Innovative Technologies to provide Foreign Language

Learning• School budgets are getting tighter and tighter, more schools are

looking at ways to maximize every dollar.• Foreign language classes, especially at the higher levels, are often

smaller classes filled with only a handful of students. • Many schools are looking at distance learning technologies as a way

to still offer these classes to students, but in a more efficient way.• Foreign language teaching should focus on teaching the mechanics

of the language, but should also include teaching the culture of the country.

• Using technology allows for enrichment in that area, and can even provide the ability for students to connect with native language speakers from that country.

• The technology being used should augment the textbooks that will be used, which can be online or in traditional hardcover form.

THE NEW, LEANER DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

CA Dept of Education

HIGH-SPEED EVOLUTION: STEPS TO SURVIVALSAY FAREWELL TO THE OVERSIZED, SLOW, SET IN ITS WAYS DOE, AND SAY HELLO TO…