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!