The Digital Renaissance Age. Bill Hill

Esta una ponencia de Bill Hill en el congreso “School of the future. World summit 2008" trata de cambios que se ciernen sobre el panorama educativo y de como las TIC pueden hacer realidad algunos de sus retos: "Some Education Issues: • Amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years o Projected to double every 72 hours by 2010 o For students starting a two-year course, half of what they learn in their 1st year of study will be outdated the year after they leave • Paper-based technology has no hope of keeping pace o Information must be digital, online, capable of rapid update • Are we: “preparing learners for jobs that don’t exist yet, using technologies that haven’t yet been invented, in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet?” o Pace of change means Continuing Education is critical o Old school/college model is out of date; lifelong learning is the new model o Teach how to learn; why, how and where to keep on learning Digital Dreams: • Education for every child – and the means to use it to make a life o Get a college degree while living in a remote African village • Build an information-based business anywhere o Sell or buy goods and services to and from anywhere in the world, at a fair price • Publish your own words, pictures, or movies o With an independent distribution channel to billions of potential customers" Autor: Bill Hill. Partner Program Manager.Microsoft Corporation