“Geography Bees” were common in schools along with bees in other disciplines.  Geography Bees began with local, regional, and world physical geography ranging from low order cognitive factual information recall to higher order cognitive integration and synthesis.  Bee questions extended to cultural, economic, and social dimensions using similar cognitive low to high processes.  Today’s competitive application of technology among developed nations requires a more competitive bee based on awareness about “Career Development e-Paradigms for Digital Dividends.” 

Citizenship, learning, and work have been the purposes of education in the U.S. for decades and phases of Career Development have been classified as awareness, exploration, and specialization.  Awareness should include an introduction to technologies that are impacting all aspects of life.  Biometric, card, voice, and wireless technology Web sites to browse and then mine are on page 3.  Exploration should provide an opportunity to children and youth for analyzing emerging roles.  Corporate Web sites are provided with vision statements, products/services, job descriptions, etc.  Specialization focuses on KNOWLEDGE about global ECONOMIES that must be considered in preparing individuals in emerging roles by EDUCATION and be synchronized to regional needs. 

A sample of questions to prepare for the digital dividends geography bee are on attached pages.  Many of the answers are contained in “Career Development e-Paradigms for Digital Dividends.”  Some of the answers can be found by browsing original source Web sites mentioned in the paper.

Critical thinking competencies and problem solving skills are essential in analyzing information available only in electronic formats in databases in other countries in variable network standards.  A few of the answers in the Specialization level will require that you access Blackboard.com and browse archived newsletters or bulletin board pages by following the directions below. 

Access       http://www.blackboard.com/courses/webcom/   and enter as a guest.  Click on “Announcements” and then on “Course Documents.” and click on “Warren Groff’s Newsletters.”   Bulletin board Web pages can be accessed by clicking on “External Links” and “The Friendly Forum” and browse “The Friendly Forum: Class Discussion.”  Browse Asia Society, Globalization and the Family of IT Careers, Taiwan, Korea, etc. 

                           The end of all our exploring will be to return to the place 
                               from which we started and know it for the first time.
                                                           T. S. Eliot
 

   1.  List things Ananova and do now and the list things she will be able to do in the future.
Things Ananova can do now _____________    _____________
Things Ananovs will be able to do in the future _____________    _____________

   2.  List the three modes of transportation included in distribution logistics that must be coordinated in international commerce.
_______________    _______________    _______________

   3.  What city is a major agricultural export center for the midwest? _______________

   4.  List two of five companies forming a medical marketplace. 
____________    ____________

   5.  Chicagoland hopes to become a global leadership in what technology? 
_______________

   6.  What region was designated as the best place to do business by The Industry Standard?  _____________. 

List three reasons why. _____________    _____________    ______________

   7.  Boeing’s CEO Phil Condit spoke on what topic for the Australian Information Strategic Alliances Summit. 
__________ __________ __________: __________ ___ _______.

   8.  List four of eight countries for which bulletin board pages were developed by K. Green for career planning information that could be used by enrollees or individuals from foreign countries.
_____________    _____________    _____________    _____________

   9.  List four of 12 categories of country information that is provided and for which Web site links are available to other sources.  (Do not include Date/Time and Map)
______________    _____________    ______________    ______________
 

   1.  A CyberStart program is enhanced by one of the USDE approved reform models, Lightspan.  Describe program support services available worldwide from Lightspan.  (Note.  Contestants from participating countries will use their primary language and voice activated system to respond to the question and the voice recognition software will translate the response into English, the dominant language of commerce and diplomacy, and voice verification software will analyze key words against criteria established by the international panel of judges to arrive at the student winner.

   2.  Career opportunities are increasing for individuals with international competencies and skills.  Identify one Web site that provides information about international opportunities and discuss it.

   3.  Inchon National University of Education conducted a session on what four basic technologies for faculty and graduate students majoring computer science in education in May, 1999?
_____________    _____________    _____________   _____________.

   4.  National Taiwan Normal University created a strategic plan for a program to produce teachers and technicians in a critical industry essential to effective communication.  Name the program _____________ and discuss the importance of the industry and program.

   5.  The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) implemented an initiative in e-commerce.  Discuss the significance of the initiative for 5 of 6 billion people not connected to the Internet.  This is Part A of a two part question.  Part B should be answered after questions 6 and 7.

   6.  Boeing is a member of a strategic alliance.  Discuss how an alliance for elementary education between 11 universities in South Korea and the U.S. could contribute to reunification.  Then, also discuss how a strategic alliance on a specific technology, like voice technology, and a product, like EV2, could yield digital dividends and improved QOL for Asia Pacific countries and the U.S.

   7.  An Asia-Pacific Regional Operations Center (APROC) has a focus on Taiwan in the
21st-century with a sound and vigorous economy, stable society, and highly educated workforce.  APROC concentrates on six centers (a) Manufacturing Center, (b) Sea Transportation Center, (c) Air Transportation Center, (d) Financial Center, (e) Telecommunications Center, and (f) Media Center.  Discuss the significance of APROC to Taiwan, highlighting two of the six centers.  Discuss the potential for a strategic alliance between Taiwan and the U.S., especially for career development in emerging roles. 

Follow direction about how to access Blackboard.com and how to access “Taiwan.”  Analyze the Web sites for MOEA and MOE along with some of the other leads provided on that bulletin board.  Link to several of the sites, including National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT). 

   5B.  ITU created a Fellowship Programme for youth at ITU Telecom Africa in Johannesburg in November 2001.  The Fellowship Programme funded one individual of college age from each member state in Africa.  The Youth Forum provides opportunity for participants to analyze 
(a) policy, regulation, and market structure in African countries and elsewhere; 
(b) the fundamentals of building a dynamic communications environment;
(c) how business is related to the world of communications; and 
(d) applications and business concepts entering and evolving in Africa.
Discuss the preparation you would make as a Youth Forum participant in ITU Telecom Americas 2002 or in ITU Telecom Asia 2002.  Also, discuss follow through activities for CD e-paradigms.

   8.  Church affiliated private education is contributing significantly to improved Quality Of Life worldwide.  Describe how character development (ethical, moral, or spiritual) can be integrated with content areas related to globalization, including CD for emerging career, and delivered online. 

   9.  Complete your “Personal Vision Quest Scenario and Action Plan” and then discuss it in terms of the technology your will analyze, the sector of society for which you will critique applications of convergence and integration, and the area of the world for which you will become more aware.  Second, convert that information into KNOWLEDGE about competencies and skills that will be needed by 2020 and relate them to Career Specialization with Concentration(s).  Third, discuss the nature of the contribution yo can make to planning as it related to STRATEGIC THINKING.  Third, describe a domestic CD community service project to help reduce the digital divide.  Fourth, describe an intercultural international service project to help reduce the digital divide.