What's more exciting for learning   automation or innovation?

Automation

Innovation

 We can use technology to make 

 We can use technology to completely

our current teaching and school

change the way we interact with 

operations more efficient. 

students, teachers and parents and

re invent the learning experience. 

Note: Since 1984, BellSouth 

While the findings from individual programs were striking

has repeatedly had to reinvent

enough, taken as a whole the lessons from BellSouth

itself in the midst of dramatically

changing environments. The break

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are ground shaking. Simply put, students'

up of the Bell system, deregulation

demands, interests and tools of choice for learning,

of the telecommunications

industry and the lightning fast

as well as the  real world  environment outside

pace of technological innovation

have forced our company to learn

schools, have created an opportunity for schools to 

about organizational transforma 

fundamentally shift their use of technology away

tion first hand and to continually

build on that knowledge. We

from simple automation toward leading edge 

recently asked officers in our 

innovation. Schools can use technology to create 

company to share their reflections

about managing the ongoing

entirely new and exciting ways to teach the tech savvy

transformation. We found their

experiences and the current 

student of today and tomorrow, and transform themselves

experiences of schools to be

into powerful centers for learning. The questions for 

remarkably similar. The BellSouth

Foundation would like to thank

each school or school system are: 

At what point will 

these officers for sharing their

our transformation begin? How will we go about it? 

reflections about organizational

change in this report. To learn

Who will lead us through the process?

more about these leaders, visit 

http://bellsouthcorp.com/team/.

This report shares the overall learnings from the BellSouth edu.pwr

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initiative

and puts forward some of the many questions that remain. For more infor 

mation about the BellSouth edu.pwr

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initiative or the findings presented in

this report, please contact Kim Mulkey, Director   Technology, BellSouth

Foundation at kim.mulkey@bellsouth.com.

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