Training for the future of ICT: Will you survive?
Gil Taran, Chief Executive Officer
iCarnegie, Inc.
www.icarnegie.com
ICT education
Where did we go wrong?
Strategies for success
Architecting the student experience
Powerful economic outcomes
Surviving vs. Thriving
Agenda
“"...[T]he school system has two flaws…The first flaw is that
the curriculum is wrong. They teach subjects that don't
matter. The second flaw is how those subjects are
taught. In the school system, learning is basically done by
students sitting and the teacher talking. Well, 'you sit and
I talk' is not the way people learn."
Roger Schank, President and CEO
Socratic Arts
The Good Old Days.
1906
What’s Wrong With This
Picture?
2007
The Current Approach to Teaching
• Concepts taught without real-world context
• Emphasis on testing
• Non-Sequential curriculum
• Antiquated teaching methods
• Unprepared graduates enter workforce
• Companies struggle, economies suffer
We’re All Losers Here
• Students are disillusioned by irrelevance
• Graduates enter the workforce unable to
perform job duties
• Companies struggle to find qualified new
hires and have to ‘retrain’ their people
• Training delays progress; productivity
lags
How to Compete Globally
Innovation Knowledge
Productivity Economic Growth
*Adapted from ICT, Education Reform,and Economic Growth: A Conceptual Framework by Robert B. Kozma, Ph.D. for Intel
The Knowledge Warrior
To be competitive, today’s technology professionals
need a variety of skills:
Technical
Professional Communication
Interpersonal Business
Needed Approach
Foundational
Knowledge
Soft Skills &
Comm.
Experience
Accelerator
Projects
Problem Solving, Learn by Doing, Outcome Based and Profession Focused
Teaching Excellence
Based on cognitive psychology and
the science of learning
Principles of teaching excellence
leading to
Curriculum and course design
Interactive exercises and class activities
Assessments and evaluations
Student/teacher interactions
A carefully designed apprenticeship-style
learning experience in which the student
encounters a planned sequence of real-
world situations.
Learning happens in the back of the class
Mentors are experts, coaches
Experiential learning
Definition of story-centered learning by Roger Schank, CEO, Socratic Arts
A Story-Centered Approach
Training Knowledge Workers
Designing experiences across the
curriculum
Focused, sequential courses
Soft skills, business threads
Participatory, multimedia learning
Story-based, context-rich lectures
Technology as a tool
Education is a Shared
Responsibility.
Thank You!
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