The Transformation Decade 2010-2020 (Entering the Shift Age, eBook 2) by David Houle

Author:David Houle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2012-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

This is the future of how we interact with our governments. Political parties, outdated government institutions, and bureaucracies will be significantly altered in the Transformation Decade. The future will bring new parties, new memes, and new assertions of the power of individuals rising up together.

HEALTH CARE AND MEDICINE

The Transformation Decade will perhaps be the single most significant decade in the history of health care and medicine. As my co-author Jonathan Fleece and I wrote in The New Health Age: The Future of Health Care in America, we are in a New Health Age of amazing transformation in how we think about, deliver, and pay for health care.

The history of health care is quite recent. The Band-Aid is less than 100 years old, antibiotics are less than seventy-five years old, and modern medicine is only about 150 years old. So we often forget how dynamic change in health care is.

In this decade, we will see medicine transformed by ongoing breakthroughs in genetics, medical devices, stem cell utilization, and neuro-science. Globally, health care will move from the current “pound of cure” model to that of “ounce of prevention.” The phrase “health care” will be replaced by the phrase “health management” as we move to preventative health from treatment of sickness. Legacy thinking about life expectancy will be challenged as we approach living to 100. The current way we speak of and handle death will dramatically change as we move to controlling how and where we die. Economically, health care will move into the rest of the global economy where free-market competition, open competition on pricing, and electronic connectivity will bring us transparency and patient-centric control at a level previously unheard of.

EDUCATION AT ALL LEVELS

As this book is being written, transformation is coursing through education around the world.

K–12 education is undergoing the single greatest transformation since Sputnik triggered the math, science, and engineering educational explosion in 1957 in the United States.

As the Toffler radar-gun metaphor shows, the education system moves at one-tenth the speed of the company. No wonder there is a skills and knowledge gap! Given that this has been going on for decades, educational institutions and processes are so far behind that transformation is the only way they can survive and be relevant around the world.

In Shift Ed: A Call to Action for Transforming Education, a book I co-authored with Jeff Cobb, we made it clear that “reform” is an old word, no longer relevant. Transformation is the only way. The way we think about the school year and the school day, the way students can move as quickly as they want through subject matter, and the connected technology increasingly available to all will largely alter the thinking and therefore the landscape of K–12 education in the United States and around the world.

The Khan Academy and the Gates Foundation, along with hundreds of transformation-oriented school superintendents, principals, and teachers, are blazing new ways of learning, assessment, and curriculum. In 2012, in the United States, we are entering a phase of transition from the legacy failures of the past to the new dynamic successes of the future.

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