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IT Enrollments II September 20, 2002 IT enrollments are going to continue to decline. Internet-savvy students rely on the Internet to help
them do their schoolwork and for good reason. Students told us they complete
their schoolwork more quickly; they are less likely to get stymied by material
they don't understand; their papers and projects are more likely to draw upon
up-to-date sources and state-of-the-art knowledge; and, they are better at
juggling their school assignments and extracurricular activities when they use
the Internet. In essence, they told us that the Internet helps them navigate
their way through school and spend more time learning in depth about what is
most important to them personally. Many schools and
teachers have not yet recognized much less responded to the new ways students
communicate and access information over the Internet. Students report that
there is a substantial disconnect between how they use the Internet for school
and how they use the Internet during the school day and under teacher
direction. For the most part, students' educational use of the Internet occurs
outside of the school day, outside of the school building, outside the
direction of their teachers. A compelling part of the problem is this just-beginning-to-be-documented dynamic. We've witnessed a generation of students who politely laugh at the degree to which their teachers are out of date in the subjects that they teach. (We're hardly the only ones whose kids have had net-access all the way through their educations.) With 78% of children online, the very nature of education in our society has changed. It's now a self-directed exercise that happens to include time in school. Schools clearly have the lowest confidence of their basic consumers (students) of all time. Grades are easy and learning takes place in spite of the system. Students form complex alternative study groups and understand school as a system that is to be beaten. Meanwhile the droning work of an IT professional is beginning to seem, more and more like the secretarial arts we displaced in the 1980s. Object oriented programming means cut and paste. Older executives have proven universally unable to manage and motivate IT teams. Rather than exciting technical breakthroughs, IT professionals face long high-pressure years during which they are demeaned as 'geeks'. IT enrollments are going to continue to decline.
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