Today, as I watch new teachers manage their classrooms or communicate with parents, I think back to my first years of teaching and realize that somewhere along the way things got a little easier. This leads me to the question: In my more than 30 years in education, what have I learned?
However, as we continually reintroduce this initiative or that teaching strategy, there is one variable that always changes: the people. With fresh energy, enthusiasm, and passion, new educators can help shape old practices into innovative work that inspires us all.
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Today, a quick glance around any classroom in my school provides a picture of 21st century learning: students emailing work and sharing documents on their devices and teachers providing interactive instruction using websites, virtual learning games, and videoconferencing. Hour long lectures and desks in rows have been replaced with student collaboration and teacher facilitation.
A few years later, as my community started to become more diverse, stereotypes went out the window when people who were different from me became people I knew, and children who struggled to learn English were masters at being patient and kind to the teacher who struggled to find the best ways to teach them.
My career has brought me a long way from the segregated classrooms of my childhood. I have known and loved teaching children of all different cultures, races, and backgrounds. Time and experience have helped me discover strategies for teaching all students. I have learned lessons of acceptance and understanding in that magical place called a classroom, where my students know we are a family and where I work tirelessly to help them feel safe.
Not long ago, as I sat thinking about my looming retirement from the profession I love, I sent a message out over social media: As I look back over the past 30-plus years as an educator, I realize that maybe I was the one who learned the most.
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A brief historical overview: The printing press was the big innovation in communications until the telegraph was developed. Printing remained the key format for mass messages for years afterward, but the telegraph allowed instant communication over vast distances for the first time in human history. Telegraph usage faded as radio became easy to use and popularized; as radio was being developed, the telephone quickly became the fastest way to communicate person-to-person; after television was perfected and content for it was well developed, it became the dominant form of mass-communication technology; the internet came next, and newspapers, radio, telephones, and television are being rolled into this far-reaching information medium.
As with many innovations, the idea for the telephone came along far sooner than it was brought to reality. While Italian innovator Antonio Meucci (pictured at left) is credited with inventing the first basic phone in 1849, and Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a phone in 1854, Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. patent for the device in 1876. Bell began his research in 1874 and had financial backers who gave him the best business plan for bringing it to market.
In 1877-78, the first telephone line was constructed, the first switchboard was created and the first telephone exchange was in operation. Three years later, almost 49,000 telephones were in use. In 1880, Bell (in the photo below) merged this company with others to form the American Bell Telephone Company and in 1885 American Telegraph and Telephone Company (AT&T) was formed; it dominated telephone communications for the next century. At one point in time, Bell System employees purposely denigrated the U.S. telephone system to drive down stock prices of all phone companies and thus make it easier for Bell to acquire smaller competitors.
By 1948, the 30 millionth phone was connected in the United States; by the 1960s, there were more than 80 million phone hookups in the U.S. and 160 million in the world; by 1980, there were more than 175 million telephone subscriber lines in the U.S. In 1993, the first digital cellular network went online in Orlando, Florida; by 1995 there were 25 million cellular phone subscribers, and that number exploded at the turn of the century, with digital cellular phone service expected to replace land-line phones for most U.S. customers by as early as 2010.
For example, people said the telephone would: help further democracy; be a tool for grassroots organizers; lead to additional advances in networked communications; allow social decentralization, resulting in a movement out of cities and more flexible work arrangements; change marketing and politics; alter the ways in which wars are fought; cause the postal service to lose business; open up new job opportunities; allow more public feedback; make the world smaller, increasing contact between peoples of all nations and thus fostering world peace; increase crime and aid criminals; be an aid for physicians, police, fire, and emergency workers; be a valuable tool for journalists; bring people closer together, decreasing loneliness and building new communities; inspire a decline in the art of writing; have an impact on language patterns and introduce new words; and someday lead to an advanced form of the transmission of intelligence.
Bell offered to sell his telephone patent to Western Union for $100,000 in 1876, when he was struggling with the business. An account that is believed by some to be apocryphal, but still recounted in many telephone histories states that the committee appointed to investigate the offer filed the following report:
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Ten years ago, in 2011, I gave my second TEDTalk, "Medicine's Future? There's an app for that"... in which I covered the convergence of accelerating technologies (faster, smaller, cheaper, better), and examples of the cutting edge and possibilities for the not so distant future of health and biomedicine. Much of what I described has begun to integrate into clinical use or advanced significantly in the subsequent decade, and in many cases has only been accelerated further by the pandemic (as summarized in my 2021 TEDTalk, "How Covid-19 transformed the future of medicine").
As a bit of an 'accidental futurist', now looking to the decade ahead, I rewatched my 2011 TEDTalk for the first time in years. It stimulated some thinking on where we were, where we are ten years later, and some prognostication on where health, medicine, and technology could take us by 2031. As healthcare makes the leap from the 3rd into the 4th industrial age, the next ten years will make the last ten look slow.
Of course, I'll be wildly off on some predictions (but I sure hope we are well into the everyday use of blockchain for privacy/security and still aren't stuck with antiquated HIPAA laws and FAX machines as the predominant 'tech' to transmit health data in 2031!).
I summarized some of the current challenges, opportunities, and emerging solutions in the cover story I wrote in 2019 for National Geographic's 'Future of Medicine' issue "Connected & High Tech: Your Medical Future'.
We still have a long way to go to effectively use many of these exciting and often exponential technologies and platforms. Technology alone isn't enough, it has to be aligned with incentives, payment models, local culture, workflow, social determinants, regulatory and ethics, and integration into medical education. The effective leveraging of these solutions of today and tomorrow has the potential to truly democratize healthcare, bring quality care at lower costs, and meaningfully improve access to impactful prevention, care, health equity, public and global health across the planet.
I began my 2011 TEDTalk by sharing the story of how I'd met a 'distant cousin' via our shared haplotype. In 2011 you could get a 23andMe SNP profile as consumer genomics emerged. The past decade has seen millions gain access to their own personal code, from discovering unknown siblings to exploring genealogy and taking proactive action based on their genetic risks, to biohackers leveraging crowd-sourced genetic insights.
Today a full genome exome sequence costs tenfold less than in 2011, down to $1000 (at a cost that has dropped at twice the rate of Moore's law). Clinical utility is catching up, with polygenic risk scores and population genetics furthering the need for services that will help interpret results. By 2031 expect genome sequence prices of $100 or less, including those done with 3rd Generation/ Long-Read Sequencing.
Beyond the genome, now your Microbiome (from gut to oral biome), proteome and now your 'Metabolome' (via disposable Continuous Glucose Monitors CGMs) can be obtained. And of course, one's 'Digitome' from a wide array of wearables and soon a more contextual 'Sociome' will be available. 152ee80cbc