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Department of Defense, Advanced Distributive Learning Initiative iFest 2017, Alexandria, Virginia 02 August 2017
Education for Leaders in the Digital Age Evolving Requirements and Technology-Enabled Practice
Dr. Cathy Downes
Professor
National Defense University
College of Information and Cyberspace
Washington D.C.
The views and information presented are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the policies of the U.S. Department of Defense, the National Defense University or the College of Information and Cyberspace
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2. Training Education Future and long haul Today or near term Synthesis
Multiple Possible Answers
No Answer
Critical Thinking
WHAT and WHY
Know what you don’t know
Cognitive Capabilities
Create, Synthesize,
Evaluate Cognition
Today or near term
Task Deconstruction
Correct/Incorrect
Answers
Memorization
HOW
Know it all
Skill Competencies
Know, Apply Cognition

3. Observation: Not everything that counts can be counted,
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Observation:
Not everything that counts can be counted,
And not everything that can be counted counts.*
Quantitative data measurement
and analytics designed to test
and improve learning in training
situations should not
be transposed
uncritically to
education situations
* Attributed to Albert Einstein
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Cyber Education
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5. Unbalanced Contemporary Foci
Strong focus on Technical and Tactical - B2 (Bits and Bytes) and C2 (Coding and Computer Networks)
Weaker focus more on “big” Cyberspace, Uses and Power
Strong Focus on economic/ privacy consequences/risks/ impacts
Need to focus on root causes, not just symptom mitigation
Need better, richer and smarter understanding and leveraging of the strategic features of the fifth dimension – others already have!
Cyber Technologies
Cyber Security
Cyber Uses

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“When we compare [the] unique and defining characteristics of cyberspace, it is evident that the major trajectories, dynamics and consistencies of international relations, established particularly through-out most of 20th century cannot be readily or uncritically imported into international relations in and through cyberspace in the 21st century.”
Choucri, Nazli, (2012) Cyberpolitics in International Relations (Cambridge Mass. MIT Press), p. 4
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8. Government Cyber Education
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Government Cyber Education
Who
What
Cyber Security Technicians
Cyber Security Leaders AND……
National Security Policy and Strategy Leaders and Advisers
Not just CIO/CTO /CKO/CISO/J-6/ Sigs/Coms
Dynamics of Cyberspace, Cyber Power and BRIN Technologies (not just cyber security hacks, apps, wares)
Strategies, Policies, Campaigns, Threats and Vectors
Designing, Building, Leading Cyber- enabled Organizations, Countries and Alliances
Social and Behavioral Sciences (International Relations, Sociology, Psychology) as well as STEM
Digital Literacies
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9. Digital Literacies Functional Area Skills E-Safety, Privacy Creativity
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Digital Literacies
Functional Area
Skills
E-Safety, Privacy
Identity
Creativity
Critical Thinking and Evaluation
Effective
Communi-cation
Cultural
and Social Under-
standing
Collaboration
Find,
Select, Verify Information
Digital Ecosystem Evolution
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10. Alvin Toffler
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

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ADULTS
GOOGLE SEARCH
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FACULTY
GOOGLE SEARCH
STUDENTS’
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13. Needs

14. Leveraging Emergent Educational Technologies
NEEDS:
Harness, encourage, facilitate and recognize educational innovators to design, test, and deploy new educational experiences that leverage and adapt emergent technologies for the educational mission
Design and resource professional development programs to assist existing faculty members to develop their own digital literacies, competency and confidence.
Stop satisficing on Content Management Systems designed for institutional administrative needs, at the expense of learning needs.

15. Leveraging Emergent Educational Technologies
NEEDS:
Rethink Lump-Clump-Chunk education/employment approach and integrate personalized learning network concepts for continuous learning.
Develop, appoint, academic institutional leaders who lead, value, champion educational technology innovation and application.
Develop Open, Sharable Learning Objects Repositories (particularly active learning activities, images, videos, data).
Prioritize helping students (and faculty) to develop their digital literacies and digitally-enabled strategies for continuous learning, teaching, mentoring, and leading.

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CONTACT!
Cathy Downes Ph.D Professor College of Information and Cyberspace National Defense University US
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