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Distributed
Education (08/18/2010)
10:16 Good morning ladies and gentlemen...Welcome to the Virtual
Global
Conference on Technology for Blended
and Distributed Education.
10:17 We're blogging live from the physical conference venue at
ChristUniversity... And we will, through the next three days, try
to cover as
much as possible..
10:17 The conference has just begun.. An invocation to God
started off the
day... Followed by an introduction by Mr Anil Joseph Pinto from
theMedia Studies Dept. of Christ University...
10:18 Mr John Joseph Kennedy, Associate Dean, Social Sciences
gave thewelcome address
10:20 Fr Thomas C Mathew, Vice Chancellor, Christ University,
inaugurated
the conference... He spoke about the importance of
experimentation in
education... He opined that experimentation is a way to go
forward...
10:21 Now we have the keynote address by Ms Theresa Maves,
Training andSocial Media Manager for K12 Education, Corporate
Affairs Group,Intel Corporation, USA
She is joining us virtual live
10:21 The conference is also being streamed
liveathttp://www.ustream.tv/channel/virtual
-global-conference-on-blended-and-distributed-education
10:23 Ms Maves will tell us about how Intel is investing in
education...
10:25 She has started a presentation titled Empowering Today's
Education to
Inspire Tomorrow's Innovation
10:25 Intel has invested over $1 billion over the past decade
towardsimproving education in over 60 countries
10:26 3 questions she shall share with us today - why is Intel,
a tech company
investing in education? What do they do? And what does it look
like?
10:27 Where will the 21st Century take us? We are preparing
students for jobs
that don't exist... the Top 10 Demand jobs in USA today did not
exist in
2004...
10:30 Students need cross-disciplinary (or even
transdisciplinary) approachesto education
10:31 Some of the best jobs involves working in large
teams...
10:31 She opines that the more people involved in the creation,
the better theproduct
10:33 "The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those that
cannot read and
write - but those who cannot learn, unlearn and re-learn" -
Alvin
Toffler, American Futurist, author of 'Future Shock'
10:33 the average person according to predictions (American?)
will have 14-
25 jobs in their lifetime
10:33 we need to create life long learners
10:34 Knowledge - as a resource that students have / as a
commodity intoday's society
