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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
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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