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30 th Annual Large Scale Assessment Conference

June 28, 2000

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U.S. Department of Education
Office of the Chief Information Officer
30th Annual Large Scale Assessment Conference
Craig B. Luigart
Chief Information Officer
Craig_Luigart@ed.gov
June 28, 2000

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Title: We Begin Time Line
(A diagram appears with a timeline representing the evolution of the written word.)
Ancient Writing
- 30,000 BC – Cave Painting (A figure of a caveman is displayed)
- 3,000 BC – Hieroglyphics (A figure showing hieroglyphics is displayed)
- 100 AD – Parchment (A figure of parchment paper and a quill pen is displayed)
- 700 AD – Illuminated Manuscript (A figure of illuminated manuscript is displayed)
Printing Press and Beyond
- 1455 – Gutenberg’s Printing Press (A picture of a printing press is displayed)
- 1885 – Small Printing Press
- 1912 – Black and White Photos of Titanic on Front Covers of Newspapers (Black and white
picture of the Titanic is displayed)
- 1935 – Color Book Covers

Slide 3
Title: We Begin Again Time Line
(A continuation of the diagram of a timeline representing the evolution of the written word.)
Last 20 Years
- 1981 – Random House Electronic Thesaurus (A figure of a compact disc is displayed)
- 1991 – Sony’s Kludgy Data Discman
- 1992 – Books on CD-Rom
- 1999 – Rocket eBook and Softbook (A picture of a Rocket ebook is displayed)
Future
- 2000 – Reader on a Laptop
- 2004 – Tablet Personal Computer
- 2005 – eBook Titles and Periodicals Sales Top 1 Billion $
- 2008 – eBook Sales Outperforming Paperback Sales

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Title: Future Trends
Technology Driver - Ubiquitous bandwidth
Trend - anytime, anywhere digital services will be the norm
Technology Driver - Smart environments
Trend - homes, offices and everyday objects will networked and intelligent
Technology Driver - Net-centric computing
Trend - Internet permeates all systems, spawning new products, applications, and services
Technology Driver - Knowledge discovery and exploitation
Trend - corporate knowledge will become a tangible asset; decision making will be faster and
more informed

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Title: Future Trends continued
Technology Driver - High-performance computing
Trend - ultrafast computers will enable us to model reality and question it, to mine a huge
amount of data and prosper from it
Technology Driver - Virtual spaces and simulation
Trend - we will test ideas and experiences virtually (ie., really but not really)
Technology Driver - Human-computer connection
Trend - everyone will communicate more naturally and effortlessly with computers; ultimately,
technology disappears

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Title: Post Gutenberg Age
- E-books
- 20 years – 90% of what we read will be electronic
- Price Differential – Hardcopy of Encyclopedia Britannica for $2000 or the on-line set for
about $100 and $0 in 2001
- Sony’s Playstation II
- 66 m polygons/sec (A picture of Sony’s Playstation II is displayed)
- Experiential Learning
- 20,000 simulated surgeries upon arrival to medical school
- Virtual testing of chemical combinations (A figure of chemicals being combined is
displayed)

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Title: New Government
E-Government
- Acquisitions and E-Grants
- E-Commerce
- E-Rate Program
- Effort to ‘Bridge’ the Digital Divide
- Get Technology Into the Classroom (A figure of students using a computer is displayed)
- Information Technology to Improve Society
- Greater Accessibility to Low Income Communities and the Disabled
- Greater Need for Security
- Virus Attacks – ‘Melissa’ and ‘ILOVEYOU’ (A figure of an e-mail with the ‘ILOVEYOU’
virus attachment is displayed)
- Web Attacks by Hackers
- Legislation
- Clinger-Cohen Act
- Paperwork Reduction Act
Redefines Common Business Procedures

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Title: eGovernment
Key ED Programs
- eGrants
- Integrated Performance Benchmarking System (IPBS)
- eFOIA
- eRate
- Section 508 and Accessibility
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Title: Information Collected From Partners
(A diagram appears showing how Education's existing information collection process is a stove-
pipe process. Four separate boxes of paper [information collected] are directed to four
separate Department offices. A large red 'X' appears over this diagram to reinforce that this is
an inefficient and ineffective process.)
- Types of Data Collection Burdens
- Performance Reports
- Evaluation Studies
- How to Increase Mutual Benefits
- E-data Systems
- Web Forms

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Title: Digital Collaboration
- What is Digital Collaboration?
- Integration vs. Automation
- Tools Available
- Know-how must facilitate ability to make technology work for education enablers
(A diagram of a triangle is displayed. “Technology” is written at the top point of the triangle,
“Educational Structure/Culture” is written at the bottom left point of the triangle, and
“Individual Skills and Practices” is written at the bottom right point of the triangle.)
- Implication for Educators?
- New ways to catch students’ interest to enhance learning
- Connect classrooms
- Teachers CAN ‘compete’ for the attention of Information Age children
- Outcome?
- Better assessment results as technology is used effectively to enhance student learning
(A diagram is displayed with a “Technology” and “Data Collection” pointing to the
“Outcome”

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Title: Technology Opportunities for Student Assessment
- All Students Tested
- Individual Knowledge, Skills
- More Linked Information
- Less Time From Collection to Use
- Communication = Empowerment

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Title: New State of Information Collection IPBS Model
A diagram is shown with “Existing E-Data Systems (States/Universities/Districts) pointing to
“Middleware” which points to the “Education Data Warehouse” which has “Pre-filled Data”
going to “Web Forms” and the “Web Forms” are going back into the “Education Data
Warehouse”.

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Title: Improved Information Collection
Chief Information Officer (CIO) is 'champion' of improved information collections (A knight in
armor holding a sword appears)
- Higher quality (A check mark appears)
- More timely (A figure of a person watching a clock appears)
- Less burdensome (A figure of a person sitting at a desk with 2 tall piles of paper appears)

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Title: The Challenge
A box appears on the left that says “You – subject experts” and another box appears on the
right that says “Us – Information Coordinators and an double headed arrow appears between
them to show they work together.)
- What do you need to know?
- When do you need to know it?
- What are your best sources?
- How can ED CIO assist you?
“If you teach us, we will learn.”