FAST FORWARD JOINT CONVENTION 2011 By John Swanson

 Today we are living in an age of speed and continuous discovery. Change is constant and the speed of change is relentlessly on the increase. Rapid and fundamental change is simultaneously impacting our personal world, our work world, our culture, and our society. Put them all together, and we find that most of us are living a life that is stressful, sometimes out of control, and for many, very exciting. Some wish the world would slow down. Well, get over it! It’s just not going to happen. FROM FAST PACE TO WARP SPEED

 Prepare All Students to Meet the Challenges of an Ever- Changing World  Empowering All Students to Succeed in a Changing World  To Enable All Students to Achieve in an Ever-Changing World MISSION STATEMENTS

GARY MARX

Bea McGarveyChuck Schwahn THE FUTURE IS NOW

An increased awareness of some future trends which have implications for education. OUTCOME

 A line of general direction or movement  A prevailing tendency or inclination TREND

 By 2030, learning a second language will no longer be necessary. By 2030, learning a second language will no longer be necessary. futurepredictions.com PREDICTIONS

 A child born in the United States in 2001 is expected to live about 30 years longer than a child born in (AARP)  The population of the U.S. is expected to grow from 275 million in 2000 to 571 million in Those people 85 and older are expected to increase from 4.3 million in 2000 to 37 million in (U.S. Census Bureau) AGING

 Demographics are real numbers, hard to argue with. The famous Boomer generation is becoming “seniors”… but not the kind of seniors your grandma was. They are healthy, expect to live longer and, for most, believe that anything is still possible. And there are lots of them… who will create new markets, require services, and depend on a shrinking number of wage earners to keep Social Security and Medicare solvent. FROM BOOMERS TO SENIORS

The Future Is Already Here

NEIL HOWE

GENERATIONS Born between The GI Generation Born between The Silent Generation Born between Baby Boomers Born between Generation X Born between The Millennials (Born in 2004 and after)(Generation E)

Seven Core Traits 1.Special 2.Sheltered 3.Confident 4.Team Oriented 5.Conventional 6.Pressured 7.Achieving THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION

SPECIAL

SHELTERED

CONFIDENT

TEAM ORIENTED

CONVENTIONAL

PRESSURED

ACHIEVING

New York Times (2007) THESE KIDS HAVE AMBITION AND ASPIRATION COMING OUT OF THEIR EARS. THEY WANT TO BE LEADERS WHEN THEY GROW UP. THEY WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD.

 Cybrarians  Web Gardeners  Robotic Engineers  Terrorism Analysts  Automotive Fuel Cell Technicians  Programming Artists  Leisure Consultants EMERGING CAREERS

 Today’s anywhere, anytime technology has blurred the lines between being at work and being at home. Your netbook is all you need to transfer your work from the office to your den. So beware, you can easily be putting in 70+ hours per week at the expense of your family time if you are not able to blend your responsibilities. Healthy blenders have identified work that is highly satisfying to them personally and then take the time, at their discretion, to be the parent and partner that they want to be. Timelines may be blurred, but responsibilities are not. WORK-LIFE BALANCE TO WORK-LIFE BLEND

 Lifetime loyalty to a single organization is a thing of the past. Conservative estimates are that 35 million Americans are Free Agents today, selling services, expertise, and advice to multiple clients. They are trading security for freedom and opportunity while transforming job security into “jobless security”. The good news is that Free Agents can set their own schedules… the bad news is that many are working 24/7. FROM EMPLOYMENT TO FREE AGENTS

 Information doubles somewhere between every 6 months and 2 years. It is estimated that when the present first graders are adults, information will double every 30 days. (Schlechty 1990)  Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until (Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, 2010) INFORMATION, INFORMATION, INFORMATION

 Change used to be something we could watch. Montgomery Ward took a couple of decades to be done in by the retail innovations of Sam Walton. Travel agents fought the tide of personal computers and the do-it-yourself movement for years. Today’s disruptive innovations and the “mass customization” movement have taken down Blockbuster and crippled Barnes and Noble in a matter of months. These kind of innovations have placed in jeopardy any business or industry which sits between the creator of products and services and the end users of those products and services. FROM CHANGE TO DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS