You Dont Know Anything About Technology

You Don’t Know Anything About Technology Lessons from a 40-something

Everyone Thinks You Are An Idiot and so do I

Your Mama Doesn’t Like You and Your Daddy Isn’t Your Father And other Uncomfortable Truths

The more they attend to themselves,

The more they attend to themselves, the less they remember the past and envision a future.

Fonts of knowledge are everywhere

Rising generation is camped in the desert

texting

social

“Meanwhile, their intellects refuse the cultural and civic inheritance that has made us what we are up to now.”

Where are professors when it comes to technology?

Where are professors when it comes to technology? powerpoint = technology

Where are professors when it comes to technology?

presentation software is a tool, not a solution.

technology - think of it as a tool, not a solution.

in the beginning . . .

Where are professors when it comes to technology? ﬂashlight approach to teaching

Where are professors when it comes to technology? the sun is already shining

Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach

Attending a lecture

Attending a lecture speciﬁc time and place

Attending a lecture speciﬁc time and place mediocre professor

Attending a lecture speciﬁc time and place mediocre professor in a room

Attending a lecture speciﬁc time and place mediocre professor in a room passive recipients

Attending a lecture speciﬁc time and place mediocre professor in a room passive recipients seems oddly old fashioned

students are fact-checking professors in class.

we aren’t used to the scrutiny.

when it comes to technology, students know more than the professors

our old models of learning

New models of learning • Abandons lecture and passive recipient learning • Embraces technology • Involves students • Inspires creativity

back to you

You Don’t Know Anything About Technology

expert consumers

expert consumers novice creators

technology entertains

technology entertains but it doesn’t instruct

informs you of events

informs you of events doesn’t keep you organized

computer accompanies you to class

computer accompanies you to class but it only distracts you from the professor

spend hundreds on iTunes

spend hundreds on iTunes but not on music you perform in your private lessons

Creativity Organization Life long learning

Moving from the Consumer to the Creator

the future belongs to a very different kind of person

era of left-brain dominance is over and that “right brain” qualities will dominate

inventiveness empathy meaning

agricultural age industrial age information age

conceptual age = creators and empathizers

organization

perhaps you are already organized

perhaps you are already hyper - organized

Getting Things Done

GTD rests on the principle that a person needs to move tasks outside of the mind

mind like water

Not every answer to organization is with technology

Technology tools for the student

collaborating

Life Long Learning LLL

always have a book

get smarter friends

unlearn assumptions

listen to smart people

tools i use that you might enjoy

mindmapping

instapaper

evernote

You Don’t Know Anything About Technology And Neither Do I

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You Dont Know Anything About Technology

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