DigiAcademy: Fixing 21st century illiteracy via eCROP's digital palette solutions
Abstract: The DigiAcademy model and Web site is a design that solves a series of critical questions. Why should a culture invest in an expansion of digital hardware, software, and networking for all citizens irrespective of their ability to pay? What philosophies and teaching practices create the best value for the rapidly morphing nature of cyberspace? What should be the definition of literacy in our digitally focused 21st century? How does a global educational system emerge that provides rapid effective benefits through digitally supported problem solving at all scales of community? When can school classrooms of all ages and adult organizations both profit and non-profit implement this model? How does an economic system generate rapid yet relevant and focused entrepreneurial growth from this model? The model creates system guidelines for harvesting a global crop of ideas through an electronic community for resolving our problems, eCROP, a global problem processor.
Presider: Wanda Routier, Concordia University Wisconsin