Education in the Digital Age

What skills are recession-proof? How should you prepare your high school student or an uncertain future?

• Learn why jobs are in decline and what will replace them


• Understand how digital media production will replace some standardized testing


• Gain insight into how digital technology trends such as decentralization and open source could collide to challenge the nation’s largest corporations


• Study the history of economic trends and inquire into whether America is bound for totalitarian corporate rule or a drastic expansion of democratic values


• Explore the research on human bias and discover why anti-bias is crucial for economic growth


• Delve into the limits of artificial intelligence and how a digital native future inverts its role in society


• Question whether surveillance capitalism is something we should worry about

Digital Platforms Are the Most Profitable Companies on the Planet, and Poised to Transform Education…

A former software engineer, Principal Zeimer takes readers through an in-depth evaluation of how digital technology and economics are poised to transform education by examining the concept of academic capital.

A MINDSET SHIFT

FROM: INDUSTRIAL TO: DIGITAL

FROM: Students are consumers of information

TO: Students are producers of academic content (the heart of academic capital)

FROM: More stuff represents prosperity

TO: Human attention (active users) represent prosperity

FROM: Students identify “correct” answer as fast as possible

TO: Students think critically about questions that they design

FROM: Broadcasting

TO: Narrowcasting

FROM: Boss decides what to produce which is pushed to consumers with marketing (“supply side”)

TO: Users decide what to produce and they pull items into existence (“Demand side”)

FROM: It costs money to distribute goods and services leading to economies of scale (monopoly dynamics)

TO: Distribution is free and instant leading to network effects (winner-takes-all dynamics)

FROM: Security means armed guards and guns, stormtroopers

TO: Security means encryption, hackers

FROM: Ownership (owning capital leads to profits / Zero-sum dy...