Vision for Innovation in
Technology
Barry Dahl
Lake Superior College

Lake Superior College
Duluth, 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

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

Google
Generation

Nintendo
Generation

Trophy
Generation

Screenagers

That’s Crazy talk.
Let’s consolidate.

Digital
Net-Gennials

Digital
Net-Gennials

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?
Whose problem
is that?
They have very few technology
skills that we expect them to
use in higher education.

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 Bible
Howe 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, worth
while 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.

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.
http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org CC Photo by Chris Shiflett

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

Is this Innovation or Insanity?
Using WOW to teach a class
Culture, Gender, and Identity – taught with World of Warcraft
CC Flickr photo by
glenn.batuyong

Is this Innovation or Insanity?
Using Guitar Hero to teach a class
History of Rock-n-Roll Music course – taught with Guitar Hero
CC Flickr photo
By 5th Ape

Clickers: cell phone usage

What is the future of students’ uses of
mobile devices in higher education?
Choices:
 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.

Clickers: mobile devices

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

Poll Results with Cell Phones

Clickers: Googled Yourself?

Lingo Lesson:
Cloud Computing
Cloud
Computing
CC Flickr photo by
ewen and donabel

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 Dahl
Lake Superior College
barrydahl.com
desire2blog.blogspot.com
barrydahl@gmail.com