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Martin Luther King's Statue is Being Created.
Have We Worked Enough on the Dream?
We Have an Achievement Gap!
Martin Luther King, Dream Realized /
Not!! The Dream? Let's Update the Dream
Reality bytes
Bonnie Bracey Sutton
Digital Equity Chsir
ISTE
Annually, the US spends $9,644 per
student compared to $22,600 per
prison inmate.
By 4th grade, African-American
and Latino students are, on average,
nearly three academic years behind
their white peers.
Only 10% of students at Tier 1
colleges (146 most selective) come from
the bottom half of the income distribution.
Barely half of African-American and
Latino students graduate from high
school, with African American
students graduating at 51%,
Latinos at 55%, and their white
counterparts at 76%.
The average student eligible for
free/reduced lunch is approximately
two years of learning behind the
average ineligible student.
The huge difference in academic
performance between students from
different economic circumstances
and racial/ethnic backgrounds is what
we call the achievement gap.
One key challenge educators face
is the importance of encouraging girls
to excel in math, science and
computer science studies. As technology
continues to drive the world of business,
those challenged or generally
disinterested in science and math
will be left behind. In fact, that's
exactly what's happening.
By Bonnie Bracey Sutton
President Obama and Dr. King's Dream
During the 1963 March on Washington,
the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
said, I have a dream that my four
little children will one day live in
a nation where they will not be judged
by the color of their skin but
by the content of their character.
One year after the inaguration
of Barack Obama— the first African
American of the 44 presidents of the
United States — we are seeing King's
dream at once realized and
deferred.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/
inauguration-central/inauguration
I am old enough to have seen
Martin Luther King in Washington on the
Mall. I am young enough to have
technology as a tool, and the world of
knowledge in science, engineering,
math and technology as work I have
advocated and championed for over 20
years. Some of the years have been
lonely, some of them well supported.
Perhaps the new dream and the new
quest is to create the possibilities
that all of our citizens can have
a hand in creating the future for
America.
King, I Have A Dream Speech
<http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm>
The Future is a Matter of National Importance
Concerns over national productivity,
international competitiveness and
homeland security have focused
attention on the need to increase the
participation of those who have been
excluded. To learn more about this
you can go to the website of
Compete.org
They say: With a billion new workers
competing for the world's jobs,
simply being an American is not an
entitlement to a secure, high-wage
job. High-speed communications and
digitization are commoditizing work
processes; every day it is easier to
ship work around the world. Even
technical work requiring skills that
once commanded a premium is now
often outsourced, off-shored or
automated. Policies aimed solely at
recovering lost jobs or stemming
the tide of globalization are destined
for failure.
American workers must establish
a competitive edge at the intersection
of disciplines – for example,
science and business, math and economics,
cultural anthropology and marketing,
or art and telecommunications.
Educational institutions must
continue to adapt to prepare Americans
with new skills as new industries
and opportunities arise. We must
recognize and embrace the multitude
of opportunities created by the
convergence of manufacturing and
services. We must better link young
job seekers with the needs of
businesses and better understand the
opportunities for high paying
technically skilled jobs that cannot be
easily off-shored.
You can see why they are concerned
about broadening engagement.
Many of our national technology
groups are not tasked with the hard
mission of solving digital equity.
It is not that they are not
interested in digital equity
it is that their main mission is
not necessarily fulfilling the dream.
ISTE leaders nurtured the Digital
Equity Symposium, which then grew
into a SIG.
Norm Augustine is Our Cheerleader!!
Rising Above the Gathering Storm:
Energizing and Employing America for
a Brighter Economic Future urged
the United States to make the
investments needed to compete,
prosper, and be secure in the global
community of the 21st century.
The report recommended 20 specific
implementing actions in four broad
areas:
K-12 Science and Mathematics Education:
Increase America's talent pool
by vastly improving K-12 science and
mathematics education.
Science and Engineering Research:
Sustain and strengthen the nation's
traditional commitment to long-term
basic research that has the
potential to be transformational to
maintain the flow of new ideas that
fuel the economy, provide security,
and enhance the quality of life.
Science and Engineering Higher Education:
Make the United States the
most attractive setting in which to
study and perform research so that
we can develop, recruit, and retain
the best and brightest students,
scientists, and engineers from within
the United States and throughout
the world.
Incentives for Innovation:
Ensure that the United States is the premier
place in the world to innovate; invest
in downstream activities such as
manufacturing and marketing; and
create high-paying jobs based on
innovation by such actions as
modernizing the patent system, realigning
tax policies to encourage innovation,
and ensuring affordable broadband
access.
Convocation on the Gathering Storm
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12537&page=2
What Needs to Happen to Broaden Engagement?
Why should we care?
We must broaden engagement and create
opportunities for our minority
students and girls. It is nice to
have Obama as a president. It would
be also nice to see that we have
created opportunities for all of the
children of this nation in education.
This is going to happen, but how
and when? People seem interested
enough in creating opportunities for
others globally. What's the problem
with serving and caring about the
distant,rural, urban, and
underdeveloped areas of the country?
Many of Martin Luther King's dreams,
and ideas were not shared. Here's
a quote I like. It may fit as we have
Obama for a president. This is
the time to keep on going on!
This is no time to engage in the
luxury of cooling off or to take the
tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
Now is the time to make real the
promises of democracy. Now is the
time to rise from the dark and
desolate valley of segregation to
the sunlit path of racial justice.
Now is the time to open the doors
of opportunity to all of God's
children. Now is the time to lift
our nation from the quicksands of
racial injustice to the solid rock
of brotherhood.
Martin Luther King
There is a digital divide, a content
divide, information divide and a
knowledge divide.
The Gender Divide
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle-
Gender Equity -Women , so What?
Most of our teachers are women and
men are not used to the concept of
othermothering to explain how we
work effectively in places of need.
As a digital equity advocate for
social justice, and a person who is
always pushing gender equity, I had
another heroine. She was working in
Supercomputing. When I first saw
her I did not know what Supercomputing
was, all I knew was that she was an
old lady and that men thought she
was a genius and wonderful and she
was still in the Navy. I happened to
live and teach in Arlington, Virginia,
so I met Grace Hopper.
Grace Who? Grace Hopper
Pioneer Computer Scientist
The new discipline of computing
and the sciences that depend upon it
have led the way in making space
for women's participation on an equal
basis. That was in some ways true
for Grace Murray Hopper, and it is
all the more true for women today
because of Hopper's work.
Perhaps her best-known contribution
to computing was the invention of
the compiler, the intermediate program
that translates English language
instructions into the language of
the target computer. She did this,
she said, because she was lazy and
hoped that the programmer may
return to being a mathematician.
Her work embodied or foreshadowed
enormous numbers of developments
that are now the bones of digital
computing: subroutines, formula
translation, relative addressing,
the linking loader, code optimization,
and even symbolic manipulation of
the kind embodied in Mathematica
and Maple.
Her skills allowed her to be employed
long past the time of usual
retirement.
That is not something that is
happening in education. In education,
once one reaches a certain salary
plateau, it is possible to be an
endangered species. This is something
that is not taught in the schools
of education. These policies should be rethought.
Thinking about STEM .. I like this
quote this from a physics professor.
“The demographic changes to occur
in the U.S. over the next
half century make it vital that we
increase the participation of
women and under-represented
minorities in physics, as
well as all other scientific and
technological fields.
Artie Bienenstock, Stanford
University, APS President
I like this quote because I was
publicly embarassed and challenged by a
EOT officer who spoke to me that maybe
I was not smart enough to do
computational science. Not sure where
that came from and or why!! This
is a woman who is employed to make a
difference with taxpayer money ,
..It is not that I am stupid, or
dense. Supercomputing was not a part
of my college education. I humble
myself to learn so that I can share
and engage others
in STEM and other disciplines.
To her credit, she has worked
diligently with me recently to create
opportunities for teachers and students.
She may have the same concerns that
other researchers have about the
level of teacher knowledge,
What do you think?
How Do We Connect the Dots? Best Practices?
My way of advocating is to share the
opportunities, to create a
workshop in teacher outreach to show
the possibilities and to connect
the dots for educational leaders.
We had a teacher outreach day at the
Teragrid and Supercomputing Conferences.
It was a way for me was a way
to share the knowledge of the groups
to teachers who have the skills to
make a difference , but who may not
have had the time to seize the
opportunity of networking. We created
the opportunity. I learned this
from participating in the SITE
Conference. I learned this from various
venues in ISTE.
We have a wiki, a Facebook presence ,
a listserv etc. What serves you
best for thinking about the digital divide?
Spreading best practices through
workshops makes the environment
better for everyone,not just women.
Patricia Rankin,
University of Colorado
ISTE is supporting the CS community
in an exploratory way.
Let's hope that the school system
administrators see computational
thinking on their horizons.
Here are some Teragrid links.
Smart Start
http://sdsc/teachertech/smartteams
http://cbm.msoe.edu/stupro/smart/index/html
Don't you just love this teacher
outreach!! They did One of our
participants went on the write
grants of over a million dollars to
serve her rural region. We had
384 applications for the few
opportunities to attend the
conference all expenses paid. So we
created this experience.
Teacher Day.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?
aid=172892&id=593996326&l=a016368f54
There are two places to go to find out more
Shodor.org
http://www.shodor.org
Their mission: to improve math and
science education through the
effective use of modeling and
simulation technologies computational
science.
Shodor, a national resource for
computational science education, is
located in Durham, N.C., and serves
students and educators nationwide.
Their online education tools such
as Interactivate and the
Computational Science Education
Reference Desk (CSERD), a Pathway
Portal of the National Science
Digital Library (NSDL), help transform
learning through computational thinking.
In addition to developing and
deploying interactive models,
simulations, and educational tools
freely available on the web,
Concerns over national productivity,
international competitiveness, and
homeland security have finally
focused attention on the need to
increase and broaden engagement
of natives of America, the minorities,
in the US, science, technology ,
engineering, and mathematics workshop.
First, we have to make sure that
they are on the pathways of learning,
that education is valued, that
reading and literacy are skills.
Then?
Career experts say the key to securing
jobs in growing fields will be
coupling an in-demand degree with
emerging trends. Job seekers will
need to branch out and pick up
secondary skills or combine hard science
study with softer skills.
Council on Competitiveness ,
http://www.compete.org/explore/skills-race
Wall Street Journal, Landing a Job
of the Future Takes a Two-Track Mind
HYPERLINK
http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB10001424052748703278604574624392641425278.html
Regarding the technology.
I have a new partner, NCWIT is the National
Center for Women & Information Technology
http://www.ncwit.org
NCWIT is the National Center for
Women & Information Technology. It is
a coalition of nearly 200 prominent
corporations, academic
institutions, government agencies,
and non-profits working to increase
women's participation in information
technology (IT). NCWIT is a
501(c)(3)*, established in 2004 with
startup funding from the National
Science Foundation, Avaya, Microsoft,
Pfizer, Bank of America, Intel,
HP, the Kauffman Foundation, and
Qualcomm.
They Believe
NCWIT believes that inspiring more
women to choose careers in IT isn't
about parity; it's a compelling
issue of innovation, competitiveness,
and workforce sustainability. In a
global economy, gender diversity in
IT means a larger and more
competitive workforce; in a world
dependenton innovation, it means the
ability to design technology that is
as broad and creative as the people
it serves.
Why They Exist
* Girls represented just 17 percent
of Advanced Placement computer
science (CS) exam-takers in 2008;
that's the lowest female
representation of any AP exam.
* In 2008 women earned only 18 percent
of all CS degrees. Back in 1985,
women earned 37 percent of CS degrees.
* Women hold more than half of all
professional occupations in the U.S.
but fewer than 24 percent of all
computing-related occupations.
* Only 16 percent of Fortune 500
technology companies have women
corporate officers.
* A study on U.S. technology
patenting reveals that patents created
by mixed-gender teams are the most
highly cited (an indicator of their
innovation and usefulness); yet
women were involved in only 9 percent
of U.S. tech patents.
You may not have noticed that in the
STEM and Supercomputing worlds
there is limited diversity. You may
have a solution. Mine is to create
the networks, the information, the
partnerships that allow minorities
to broaden engagement. I want to
bring pathways to computing.
Jan Cuny says. Computing is a
creative activity that draws on a wide
variety of fields, such as natural
sciences, mathematics, engineering,
social sciences, business, and the arts.
Abstraction is a central problem-solving
technique in computer science.
Algorithms are the essence of
computational problem solving.
Today, every discipline of science
and engineering is being
revolutionized by the widespread
use of comprehensive
cyberinfrastructure (CI).
Computing power, data volumes, and network
capacities are all on exponential
growth paths, collaborations are
growing dramatically, and all forms
of CI and multiple communities
spanning multiple agencies and
international domains often must be
brought to bear to address a
single complex grand challenge problem,
such as climate change. All of
these developments are part of a
revolutionary new approach to
scientific discovery in which advanced
computational facilities (e.g.,
data systems, computing hardware,
high speed networks) and instruments
(e.g., telescopes, sensor networks,
sequencers) are coupled to the
development of quantifiable models,
algorithms, software and other tools
and services to provide unique
insights into complex problems in
science and engineering.
Why So Few: Women and Girls in Science,
Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics
How do we get more girls and women involved?
Darpa's Kids Initiative
Darpa is
https://www.fbo.gov/utils/
view?id=69c81b4b7f892d4e0e0d8a7bec0eba29
soliciting proposals for initiatives
that would attract teens to
careers in science, technology,
engineering and math (STEM), with an
emphasis on computing. According
to the Computer Research Association,
computer science enrollment dropped
43% between 2003 and 2006.
Darpa's worried that America's
ability to compete in the increasingly
internationalized stage will be
hindered without college graduates with
the ability to understand and innovate
cutting edge technologies in the
decades to come.
Though they aren't specifying what
sorts of programs might work that's
for applicants to figure out but these
might include mentorship
programs and career days.
(In related news, Darpa's RFP is
barely written in English, but it
contains some pretty sharp-eyed
critiques of the current system.
Darpa notes that even though there
are plenty of sciency programs out
there such as space camp, geared at
middle-schoolers. But there's not
much else. The challenge is to create
a continuum of activities that engage
students all along the path from
middle-school to college.
We need more than Obama in
leadership. We need the dream for all.
How can you really get kids into
these careers when most of America
views evolution on par with
intelligent design; when so many science
teachers can barely communicate the
lesson, much less the broader value
of the disciplines they're teaching;
and science is still looked as the
providers of grinders and dweebs?
We have been in a culture of men, who
say just teach the kids. Teachers
touch the future and need to have
adequate professional development,
not just the toys of 2.0 and 3.0.
If we are going to get students to
be connected and interested beyond
the participatory culture projects
like this that involve teachers and
kids are necessary.
Places to go!!
To find out what works in Public Education?
The George Lucas Educational Foundation
http://www.edutopia.org/
Darpa Kid Inititiave
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/
design-innovation/darpa-sets-its-
sights-educating-kids
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/
cliff-kuang/design-innovation/
darpa-sets-its-sights-educating-kids
Digital Generation Project
The George Lucas Educational
Foundation has it right when they talk
about the Digital Generation.
Today's kids are born digital born into
a media-rich, networked world of
infinite possibilities. But their
digital lifestyle is about more
than just cool gadgets; it's about
engagement, self-directed learning,
creativity, and empowerment. The
Digital Generation Project tells
their stories so that educators and
parents can understand how kids
learn, communicate, and socialize in
very different ways than any
previous generation.
HYPERLINK
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation
I use these stories of their youth
portraits, but you may have other
favorites.
Luis
HYPERLINK
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-profile-luis
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-profile-luis
tEXtSoftware
The future is in our hands and minds!!
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Generation M2:Media in the
Lives of 8-18 Year Olds...
Report: Generation M2: Media in
the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds
Generation M2: Media in the Lives
of 8- to 18-Year-Olds is the third in
a series of large-scale, nationally
representative surveys by the
Foundation about young people's
media use. The report is based on a
survey conducted between October
2008 and May 2009 among a nationally
representative sample of 2,002
3rd-12th grade students ages 8-18,
including a self-selected subsample
of 702 respondents who completed
seven-day media use diaries, which
were used to calculate multitasking
proportions.
http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/8010.pdf
Here are some indepth youth
portraits that show some of the ways in
which youth are
using digital media.
The Digital Generation Project,
The George Lucas Educational Foundation
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation
Today's kids are born digital --
born into a media-rich, networked
world of infinite possibilities.
But their digital lifestyle is about
more than just cool gadgets; it's
about engagement, self-directed
learning, creativity, and empowerment.
The Digital Generation Project
tells their stories so that educators
and parents can understand how
kids learn, communicate, and socialize
in very different ways than any
previous generation.
There are a variety of youth
portraits that can be used to share the
effects of the use of technology,
personal stories from youth.
This is important as we are educating
for the future, not the past.
Early Learners and Intervention Programs?
For those who are looking for resources
for ELL and early learners..
http://awardinteractive.com/site/about.html
You may remember Sunshine books.
This is now Award... multicultural,
and the results of research are stunning!!!!
We would like to have input on ways to
update the dream. Please send your solutions ,
articles and ideas for publication
in an upcoming newsletter to me.
Bonnie Bracey Sutton
Outreach GLEF.org
http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/bbracey
My communities
http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/summitforchildren
http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/gendergap
CyberEd Resources : ICT's and Education (owner)
Games and Education (owner)
Science without Frontiers STEM Initiatives K-12 (owner)
http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/bbracey
Portal Work
http://edreform.net/
Technology Applications for learning in the portal
applications.edreform.net
Technology Applications for Learning
The Technology Applications for
Learning Network is a catalog of technology
applications for learning.
http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/STEM
.
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