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A National Science Foundation Advanced TechnologicalEducation Resource Center of Excellence focused onInformation and Communications Technologies (ICT)

This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number DUE 0302548.

Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.

HistoryHistory» A division of Springfield Technical

Community College in Springfield, Massachusetts

» Began in 1997 serving New England and New York secondary and post-secondary institutions as Northeast Center for Telecom Tech.

» Focused on areas of computer networking, fiber-optics and wireless communications

History, continuedHistory, continued» Changed from the Northeast Center to the

National Center in 2002• Expanded from “physical layer” content

offerings to encompass emerging technologies and more comprehensive technician education

» Changed to National Center for Information and Communications Technologies (ictcenter.org) in late 2008.

Our Primary GoalOur Primary Goal Create a comprehensive and

sustainable national education system for the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and ICT Enabled industries.

Three ChallengesThree Challenges1. How can ICT pedagogy - both content and

means of delivery - be kept current?

2. How can a group of highest quality subject matter experts be readily engaged?

3. How can the best of this knowledge be shared and disseminated across the nation quickly?

Community of PracticeCommunity of PracticeA new vision for ICT education, partnership and collaborationA new vision for ICT education, partnership and collaboration

» An expanding group of of academic professionals and industry experts who share a common goal of ensuring a quality and industry-relevant education for all ICT students

» Spans Grade 11 through community college and four-year college levels

» Formal partnerships with 14 academic institutions in 10 states

NCTT’s ActionsNCTT’s Actions» Develop a nationally validated set of ICT skill

standards» Quickly disseminate innovative, effective, and

current curriculum models to faculty» Make the knowledge of subject matter experts

readily accessible to industry and academia» Provide information and training for ICT students

and technicians that will match industry needs» Share strategies for inclusion of

underrepresented populations in the ICT field

Connecting Connecting TechnologiesTechnologies

» Second Life (http://slurl.com/secondlife/NCTT/128/128)

» iTunes - » iTunesU - part of the National Science

Digital Library (NSDL) and AMSER

» Web 2.0• Blogging (www.ictcenter.org/blog)• Podcasting (www.ictcenter.org/podcast)• YouTube (www.youtube.com/user/NatCtrTelecomTech)• Moodle (www.ictcenter.org/ocp)• Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/people/Gordon-F-Snyder-Jr/800879375)• Twitter (http://twitter.com/gsnyder)• LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/gordonfsnyder)

Connecting PeopleConnecting People» Thew Center draws on the knowledge of

subject matter experts,

» Listens to the needs identified by industry professionals, and responds to faculty requests.

» People are the source, the tool and beneficiaries of The Center’s inventive program.

» Impact on more than 100,000 students, including incumbent workers and and students in 2 and 4 year institutions

Formal Academic PartnersFormal Academic Partners

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"America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad ass "America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad ass speed.“speed.“

- Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936*- Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936*Or…. Maybe we used to be…..• Since 2001, according to the

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United States has moved from fourth in the world to fifteenth in broadband penetration. Not exactly bragging rights.

• Even though the United States has the largest broadband market, our penetration rate continues to be low with a ranking of 15th in the world.

[Source: http://ictcenter.blogspot.com/2008/11/organisation-for-economic-co-oper.html]

* [fictional, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby]

More Speed: Who Needs It?More Speed: Who Needs It?Peter Schilling, IT Director at Amherst College, has published what he calls his IT index in a blog at Academic Commons. Schilling's post lists 30 indicators of technological change on the Amherst campus. You'll have to take a look at his piece to see the full list - here's my favorites from his list:

• Year that an incoming Amherst College class first created a Facebook group so that they could socialize and otherwise get to know each other prior to arriving on campus: 2006.

• By the end of August 2008 the total number of members and posts at the Amherst College Class of 2012 Facebook group: 432 members and 3,225 posts.

• Students in the class of 2012 who registered computers, IPhones, game consoles, etc. on the campus network by the end of the day on August 24th, the day they moved into their dorm rooms: 370 students registered 443 devices.

• Number of students in the class of 2012 who brought desktop computers to campus: 14 (out of 438).

• Number that brought iPhones/iTouches: 93.• Likelihood that a student with an iPhone/iTouch is in the class of 2012:

approximately 1 in 2.• Total number of students on campus this year that have landline phone service:

5. • Average number of emails received per day: 180,000.• Percentage of email that arrives on campus that is spam: 94%.

[Source: http://ictcenter.blogspot.com/2008/10/amherst-college-in-western-massachus.html]

Some Have No Speed….Some Have No Speed….

Those in the more rural parts of Massachusetts (and many other areas in our country) are not so fortunate when it comes to broadband availability. Today (Sept 26, 2007) , there are 32 towns in rural parts of Massachusetts that have no high-speed Internet, or broadband, access whatsoever. [Update: Dec 2008, there are still 14 towns that have no broadband access] An additional 63 are under-served, with broadband access available in only some areas of the community..

[Source: http://ictcenter.blogspot.com/2007/09/broadband-gaming-in-sticks.html]

More Speed: Social Networking – More Speed: Social Networking – Some Interesting Facebook StatsSome Interesting Facebook Stats

» Facebook keeps track of some interesting information on their statistics page:

• More than 140 million active users• More than half of Facebook users are outside of college• The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older• Average user has 100 friends on the site• 2.6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide)• More than 13 million users update their statuses at least once each day• More than 2.5 million users become fans of Pages each day• More than 700 million photos uploaded to the site each month• More than 4 million videos uploaded each month• More than 15 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each month• More than 2 million events created each month • More than 19 million active user groups exist on the site• More than 35 translations available on the site, with more than 60 in development• More than 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States• More than 660,000 developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries• More than 52,000 applications currently available on Facebook Platform• 140 new applications added per day• More than 95% of Facebook members have used at least one application built on Facebook Platform

(Note: data from 12-18-08)

» At current pace, Facebook is growing at around 600,000 users per day.[Source: http://ictcenter.blogspot.com/2008/12/untitled_18.html]

More Speed: Changing the Way We Work and More Speed: Changing the Way We Work and LearnLearn

IBM General Manager Mike Rhodin says the fast-growing unified communications market will continue to grow and reshape the way businesses and workers communicate and collaborate worldwide:

1. The Virtual Workplace will become the rule. No need to leave the office. Just bring it along. Desk phones and desktop computers will gradually disappear, replaced by mobile devices, including laptops, that take on traditional office capabilities. Social networking tools and virtual world meeting experiences will simulate the feeling on being there in-person. Work models will be changed by expanded globalization and green business initiatives that reduce travel and encourage work at home.

2. Instant Messaging and other real-time collaboration tools will become the norm, bypassing e-mail. Just as e-mail became a business necessity, a new generation of workers has a new expectation for instant messaging (IM) as the preferred method of business interaction. This will fuel more rapid adoption of unified communications as traditional IM becomes the core extension point for multi-modal communications.

3. Beyond Phone Calls to Collaborative Business Processes. Companies will go beyond the initial capabilities of IM, like click-to-call and online presence, to deep integration with business processes and line-of-business applications, where they can realize the greatest benefit.

4. Interoperability and Open Standards will tear down proprietary walls across business and public domains. Corporate demand for interoperability and maturing of industry standards will force unified communications providers to embrace interoperability. Converged, aggregated, and rich presence will allow businesses and individuals to better find and reach the appropriate resources, removing inefficiencies from business processes and daily lives.

5. New meeting models will emerge. Hang up on routine, calendared conference calls. The definition of "meetings" will radically transform and become increasingly adhoc and instantaneous based on context and need. 3-D virtual world and gaming technologies will significantly influence online corporate meeting experiences to deliver more life-like experiences demanded by the next generation workers who will operate more efficiently in this familiar environment.

[Source: http://ictcenter.blogspot.com/2008/04/unified-communications-changing-way-we.html]

Pew Study: The Internet In Pew Study: The Internet In 20202020» A couple of weeks ago the Pew Internet & American Life Project released their third internet

evolution report titled The Future of the Internet III. To prepare the report, Pew surveyed internet leaders, activists and analysts and found most believe portable hand held devices (what we all call "phones" now) will become our primary online devices as voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves.

Here's a list of the key findings from the report:

• The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most people in the world in 2020.

• The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily yield more personal integrity, social tolerance, or forgiveness.

• Voice recognition and touch user-interfaces with the internet will be more prevalent and accepted by 2020.

• Those working to enforce intellectual property law and copyright protection will remain in a continuing arms race, with the crackers who will find ways to copy and share content without payment.

• The divisions between personal time and work time and between physical and virtual reality will be further erased for everyone who is connected, and the results will be mixed in their impact on basic social relations.

• Next-generation engineering of the network to improve the current internet architecture is more likely than an effort to rebuild the architecture from scratch.

[Source: http://ictcenter.blogspot.com/2009/01/pew-study-internet-in-2020.html]

Future: Symantec Web/Web 3.0Future: Symantec Web/Web 3.0» 'the intelligent Web'—such as those using semantic web, microformats, natural

language search, data mining, machine learning, recommendation agents, and artificial intelligence technologies—which emphasize machine-facilitated understanding of information in order to provide a more productive and intuitive user experience.

» We’ll see:• transformation of the Web from a network of separately siloed applications and content

repositories to a more seamless and interoperable whole. • ubiquitous connectivity, broadband adoption, mobile Internet access and mobile devices; • network computing, software-as-a-service business models, Web services interoperability,

distributed computing, grid computing and cloud computing; • open technologies, open APIs and protocols, open data formats, open-source software

platforms and open data (e.g. Creative Commons, Open Data License); • open identity, OpenID, open reputation, roaming portable identity and personal data; • the intelligent web, Semantic Web technologies such as RDF, OWL, SWRL, SPARQL,

GRDDL, semantic application platforms, and statement-based datastores; • distributed databases, the "World Wide Database" (enabled by Semantic Web

technologies); and • intelligent applications, natural language processing.[2], machine learning,

machine reasoning, autonomous agents.[3]

[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_3.0]

2009 Trends2009 Trends1. Smaller Device Adoption Accelerates

Smart Phones, Netbooks

2. Built-in Wireless Broadband Usages Widens

Portable devices (smart phones, computers, etc)

3. Cell Phones Get more Software iPhone, Android, Nokia Ovi, Blackberry, Microsoft

[reference: [reference: http://smallbiztrends.com/2009/01/top-ten-technology-trends-for-small-businesses-2009.html/]

4. Unified Communications Increase Integration of telephone, CRM, chat, address book, calendar Watch Microsoft, Avaya, Cisco

5. Online Apps and Data Backups Proliferate

Cloud computing and backup solutions – iWork, Yahoo, GDrive(?)

6. Social Media Becomes Strategic Enhancing your use of social media  in order to network with associates, find new customers and better communicate with existing customers.

7. Online Video gets Cheaper and More Widespread

YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo and Blip.tv) we can leverage video as a powerful marketing tool. Video can complement a blog, email newsletter or Facebook

8. Video Conference Solutions Expand Better than simply email, telephone or instant messaging. Check out Skype and Sightspeed

9. Hosted Software Applications Go on the Fast Track

Hosted applications, or software as a service (SaaS), removes installed app complications. All you need is a web browser to access the hosted application. The downside? If you lose access to the Internet you lose access to your application.

10.Online Presence Gap Widens Conversation has moved from web sites and email marketing to blogs and social media for business. Those that strategically use online media to communicate and market themselves will have more loyal customers and can better attract prospective customers.

*The biggest danger of *The biggest danger of the internet…. is that we the internet…. is that we

are keeping ourselves are keeping ourselves from taking advantage of from taking advantage of

it.it.* Modified from Dear Students: Don't Let College Unplug Your Future:

http://www.academicevolution.com/2009/01/dear-students.html

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Contact:Contact:Gordon F. Snyder JrExecutive Director, National Center for Information and Communications Technologiesa Division of Springfield Technical Community College1 Armory SquareSpringfield, MA 01105413-755-6550www.ictcenter.org

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“John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to

rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.” Thomas Friedman , NY Times Op-Ed Piece

“If we (you) ain’t first we’re (you’re) last.”[Ricky’s Dad, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby]