Innovation and Technology: Two Key Ingredients for Improving Preparation and Transition to College

Some Change Attempt Examples

• 1990 World Wide Web…
• DNA forensics
• Broadband
• Video History Archive
• Iowa Electronic University
• Indoor playgrounds
• Government services card

• 1-to-1 computing
• E-medical records
• Health care pooling
• Courseware camps
• Ad supported e-mail
• 100% E by 2003
• IP video and telephony
• GIS/GPS criminal tracking

Dominant Private Practice for Change

• High Value

• Low Value

• High Cost

• Low Cost

• Current Process

• New Process

• Leap and Reap Rapidly

Government Failure to Precipitate

• Creep and Weep Over a Much Longer Time

• High Value

• Low Value

• High Cost

• Low Cost

• Current Process

• New Process

• Current Process

• Keep the Old Process But Do Less of It

• Where we passionately and methodically search for new insight into how the brain functions, how we learn, and the factors and methods of human organization and success...

• Education

SO WE CAN IGNORE IT ALL WHEN IT COMES TO OUR OWN PROGRAMS!

Education and Government: Resistant to Change

• Pushing change in education and government is like trying to run through a wall of spandex…
• …coated with Teflon so nothing sticks…
• And imbued with the universal element “Bureaucratium,” an amazing substance that seems indestructible and repels everything…