From Sputnik to MySpace: The New Education Race, and How to Win IT, with Douglas Rushkoff

Just as the Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite launched America into an education race against its Cold War adversary, the emergence of high-tech superpowers from India to South Korea has forced us to reconsider how we are preparing our youth for the economic and security landscape of the 21st Century. In this talk, Rushkoff demonstrates how it is no longer enough to teach our students how to use off-the-shelf programs, or even to train them to use today's technologies; at last some of them must be capable of designing, programming, and engineering a digital infrastructure beyond most of our imaginations. This lecture will give audiences not only the motivation and reasoning behind upscaling our educational capacity, but the first concrete steps we need to take in order to do so.

Rushkoff’s books will be available for sale and will be signed before and after the event.

Also, visit UT Arlington’s information technology service providers and the UT Arlington Bookstore tables in the Rosebud Foyer in the University Center from 11 a.m. – noon and 1:30-2 p.m.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
12 noon-1:30 pm
Bluebonnet Ballroom
E.H. Hereford University Center
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington TX

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Lunch will be served:
Faculty and Staff RSVP (limited seats still available)
Seating is limited

Featured Speaker

Douglas Rushkoff, a professor of media studies at The New School University and producer and correspondent for the PBS Frontline Digital Nation project, is the author of numerous books, including Cyberia, ScreenAgers, Media Virus, and, most recently, Life Inc., released this month by Random House. He is one of today's most highly regarded media theorists.
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In conjunction with Focus on Technology:

WIIFM - "What's in it for me"
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
11am-noon and 1:30pm-2pm
Bluebonnet Ballroom North
E.H. Hereford University Center

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