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Revolutionizing Education through Technology

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Economic competition is global, focused, and unrelenting; there is no such thing as a “safe” job. Whatever it was that formed the basis of your state’s economy 50, 25, or even 10 years ago is now at risk; and whatever it is that is coming next is hard to see or define, let alone prepare for.
This came home to me in the late 1990s when the bloom of the dot com bubble was beginning to fade, and the callcenter jobs we all thought were the next phase of industrialism were disappearing almost as fast as they had come. It suddenly hit me that I had no idea what the citizens of my state were going to do for a living 20 (or even 10) years from now. And the events of the past 10 years have only intensified this sense—and my conclusion that the recession we have been in for the past few years is more structural than cyclical.
The fact is that everybody in the world wants our jobs and the standard of living that comes with them, and for the first time ever, they have the means to take them.
So, what do we do? Denial is always an option (probably the most common one at this moment), but that is surely not going to help us adapt to the new reality all around us. As my father used to say, no decision is a decision, and it is usually the wrong one.
Another option is to meet what is fundamentally an economic challenge with economic remedies—tax cuts and incentives; a new round of protectionism; lower interest rates; “streamlining” regulation; scouring public budgets for “fraud, waste, and abuse”; credit enhancements; investment in research and development—in other words, the usual suspects. These may be helpful on the margins, but none individually—or even the whole list—will fundamentally alter the trajectory of 21st-century history, which is inevitably in the direction of intensifying global competition.

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Revolutionizing Education through Technology

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Publisher

United States of America : The Greaves Group,., 2010

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1-134

Language

English

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978-1-56484-322-7

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NONE

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1st Edtion

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Technology

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