Vision for Innovation in Technology

Barry DahlLake Superior College

Lake Superior CollegeDuluth, Minnesota

ITC - North Central States

My Websites and blogs

Finding my Stuff

Clickers: Re: Computer Technology

Clickers: iPhones and Web 2.0

How cool is the iPhone?

iPhone Lock Down

Who’s more creative?You, or the average

6-year-old?

Clickers: Schools Suck the Creativity Out

Ken Robinson Book

Is Second Life the coolest thing ever?

Underwater Presentations

Lingo Lesson:

MUVE

Lingo Lesson:

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 Word Cloud

Clickers: Web 2.0 Usage

Web 2.0 Graphic

Frankly my dear, most people just don’t give a damn

Web 2.0 – Billions of non-users

Frankly my dear, most people just don’t give a damn

Millions of users

Billions of non-users

Remind me – how many were born in

1980 or after?

Generations

Net Generation

Next Generation

Nexters

Texters

Generation Y

Generation Why

Millennials

Digital Natives

Generation Now

iGeneration

Echo Boomers

GoogleGeneration

NintendoGeneration

TrophyGeneration

Screenagers

That’s Crazy talk.Let’s consolidate.

DigitalNet-Gennials

DigitalNet-Gennials

Just be really careful

How you say that!

(this is a joke, in case you can’t tell)

Facebook Generation

Tech Skills for Your People

They have very few technology skills that we expect them to use

in higher education.

Whose Problem is That?

They have very few technology skills that we expect them to use

in higher education.

Whose problem is that?

Web 2.0 for the Net Generation?“Millennial users prefer online access

and collaborative web-based environments in addition to physical facilities.”

“This is also critically important for Millennials as they are overwhelmingly embracing these types of Web 2.0 content.” (June 2006)Source: Marketing Library Services to Millennials: A New Paradigm for Library and

Information Service Providers, by Timothy Daniels and Robert H. McDonald (Educause)

Clickers: Web 2.0 & Net Gens

The BibleHowe and Strauss (2000) demonstrate that the children of boomers and of older members of Generation X are actually harder workers and better community builders than any generation since the G.I. Generation (born 1901-1924)

B.S.These guys have no idea what they’re talking about. Most of the book is pure speculation and an effort to find results that match their own predictions in a previous book where they wrote about what they thought this generation would be.

About Those Digital Net-Gens

• Are students of today technologically competent, or just confident?

• Having no fear is not the same as having knowledge or skill.

Source: Oblinger & Hawkins, Educause

The Millennials are Here!

“We need to figure out how they learn and change the education model so that it works for them.”

Anonymous, near-quote

Poppycock!!

• “We get to mold the way they learn to ensure that they have a productive, worthwhile future.

Anonymous, near-quote

We Must Start Using Their Tools

• If all the students use Second Life – we should teach in Second Life.

• If all the students use Facebook – we should figure out how to teach with Facebook.

• If all the students are texting, we should send them text messages.

We Must Start Using Their Tools

• If all the students use Second Life – we should teach in Second Life.

• If all the students use Facebook – we should figure out how to teach with Facebook.

• If all the students are texting, we should send them text messages.

Not so fast Bucko!

WRONG! Avoid the Creepy Treehouse

• n. A place, physical or virtual (e.g. online), built by adults with the intention of luring in kids.

• n. Any institutionally-created, operated, or controlled environment in which participants are lured in either by mimicking pre-existing open or naturally formed environments, or by force, through a system of punishments or rewards.

CC Photo by Chris Shifletthttp://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org

Clickers: Communications Tools

Clickers: Web 2.0 Accounts

Clickers: Social Networking Acocunts

Dogster Social Networking

E-Communications

• Email is for old people.• Various sources

• 95% of e-mail is spam.• Source: Spam Links

E-Communications

• Facebook is for old people..

• Facebook growth market is the 35 and over crowd..

• Source: InsideFacebook

E-Communications

• Twitter is for old people.

• Young adults (18-24) make up 10% of Twitter population.

Source: comScore

Clickers: regarding Twitter

Clickers: regarding Blogging

Blogging: This is not true

Clickers: online behavior

Lingo Lesson:

MMORPG

Using WOW to teach a classIs this Innovation or Insanity?

Culture, Gender, and Identity – taught with World of Warcraft

CC Flickr photo by glenn.batuyong

Using Guitar Hero to teach a classIs this Innovation or Insanity?

History of Rock-n-Roll Music course – taught with Guitar Hero

CC Flickr photoBy 5th Ape

Clickers: cell phone usage

What is the future of students’ uses of mobile devices in higher education?

Big Future! Mobile devices, including cell phones will be used in many ways for learning and building connections with the college.

No future! Mobile devices, including cell phones are totally inadequate for learning and building connections with the college.

Choices:

Clickers: mobile devices

Pull out your cell phones.Send short text message to 99503

POLL EVERYWHERE

Poll Results with Cell Phones

Clickers: Googled Yourself?

Cloud Computing

CC Flickr photo byewen and donabel

Lingo Lesson:

Cloud Computing

Lingo Lesson:Digital Divide

Digital Divide – this one?

Digital Divide – or this one?

Clickers: Google Wave?

Innovation Comes in Waves

Cloud Computing Cloud computing is a style of computing in

which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the "cloud" that supports them.

The term cloud is used as a metaphor for the Internet. (Source: Wikipedia)

Moore’s Law Still in Effect

Higher Ed Moves Slowly

Barry DahlLake Superior College

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