Increase Your Tech IQ
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This document discusses technology and provides tips to increase one's "tech IQ." It begins by defining key technology terms like "digital natives" and "digital immigrants." It then asks the reader to assess their comfort level with technology on a 1 to 10 scale. The document lists popular tech tools like social media, YouTube, and various Google services. It encourages the reader to explore new technologies and learn from students. Finally, it offers 10 tips to increase one's tech IQ, such as taking one's tech support person to lunch, and provides 3 basic technology principles.
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Increase Your Tech IQ
- 1. WHAT’S YOUR TECH IQ? April 23, 2010 Dr. Leslie Dare Director, Student Affairs Technology Services
- 7. You Know You Are a Geek When…..
- 8. 1992
- 9. WHAT ARE YOU? • Digital Natives (grew up with today’s technology) • Digital Immigrants (all the rest of us!) Prensky, M. (2001) Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the Horizon, (9) 5.
- 10. What Is Your Tech IQ? • How comfortable are you with technology? • How much do you use it in work? • How much do you use it outside work? • Is technology your friend, or foe? • Rating Scale 1 = Please, give me back my typewriter!! 10 = Would you like to see my new iPad??
- 11. Some Geeky Stuff
- 12. Social Media
- 13. YouTube
- 14. iPad
- 15. Flip Video
- 17. Google, Google, Google • Gmail • Docs • Wave • Voice • Maps • Earth • Moon • City Tours • Alerts • Reader • Buzz • News • Analytics • iGoogle • Picnik • YouTube
- 18. Dare to Be Geeky
- 19. Increase Your Tech IQ 1. Pick a new technology to explore. 2. Get a student to friend you Facebook. 3. Oh, sorry, first you have to get a Facebook account! 4. Observe students: Are they “plugged in” or “plugged up” when they use gadgets? 5. Read the “Technology” section of The Chronicle of Higher Education
- 20. Increase Your Tech IQ 6. Right click! Right click! Right click! 7. Go to the Apple Store and play. 8. Take a look at studentaffairs.com. 9. Take your tech support person to lunch and share their excitement about iPads. 10. See how many times you can work the word “blogging” into your next staff meeting.
- 21. Basic Tech Principles 1. Technology should be used as a tool, and not just for the sake of using it. 2. Equitable access to technology resources and training should be provided to all staff. 3. Digital interactions should complement, but not replace, personal interactions with students.
- 22. Thank You!
Editor's Notes
- Dwight from The Office
- Lisa Simpson
- This is now considered a good thing! We love the Geek Squad! “Geeked Out” or “Get Your Geek On”
- Urkel, the ultimate dork.
- You accidentally enter your password on a microwave. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years. You have ever sent E-mail to someone sitting next to you. Your pet has a web page. You own a set of itty bitty screwdrivers and you actually know where they are. You have ever IM’ed with someone while talking to them on the phone. Co-workers have to E-mail you about the fire alarm to get you out of the building. You have more e-mail addresses than you do pairs of shoes. Technology Vocabulary:State-of-the-art - Any computer you can't affordObsolete - Any computer you own.Nano-second - The time it takes for your State-of-the-art-computer to become obsolete.
- PBJ 101