Slides from my presentation in Bay Harbor, MI on June 4, 2009. Creative Commons Attribution licensed.

1. Vision for Innovation in
Technology
Barry Dahl
Lake Superior College

2. Lake Superior College
Duluth, Minnesota

3. ITC - North Central States

4. My Websites and blogs
Finding my Stuff

5. Clickers: Re: Computer Technology

6. Clickers: iPhones and Web 2.0

7. How cool is the
iPhone?

8. iPhone Lock Down

9. Who’s more creative?
You, or the average
6-year-old?

10. Clickers: Schools Suck the Creativity
Out

11. Ken Robinson Book

12. Is Second Life the
coolest thing ever?

13. Underwater Presentations

14. Lingo Lesson:
MUVE

15. Lingo Lesson:
Web 2.0

16. Web 2.0 Word Cloud

17. Clickers: Web 2.0 Usage

18. Web 2.0 Graphic
Frankly my dear, most people just don’t give a damn

19. Web 2.0 – Billions of non-users
Frankly my dear, most people just don’t give a damn

20. Remind me – how
many were born in
1980 or after?

21. Generations

22. Net Generation

23. Next Generation

24. Nexters

25. Texters

26. Generation Y

27. Generation Why

28. Millennials

29. Digital Natives

30. Generation Now

31. iGeneration

32. Echo Boomers

33. Google
Generation

34. Nintendo
Generation

35. Trophy
Generation

36. Screenagers

37. That’s Crazy talk.
Let’s consolidate.

38. Digital
Net-Gennials

39. Digital
Net-Gennials

40. Facebook Generation

41. Tech Skills for Your People
They have very few technology
skills that we expect them to
use in higher education.

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

43. 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)

44. Clickers: Web 2.0 & Net Gens

45. 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)

46. 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.

47. 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

48. 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

49. Poppycock!!
• “We get to mold
the way they learn
to ensure that they
have a
productive, worth
while future.
Anonymous, near-quote

50. 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.

51. 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.

52. 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

53. Clickers: Communications Tools

54. Clickers: Web 2.0 Accounts

55. Clickers: Social Networking Acocunts

56. Dogster Social Networking

57. E-Communications
• Email is for old people.
• Various sources
• 95% of e-mail is spam.
• Source: Spam Links

58. E-Communications
• Facebook is for old people..
• Facebook growth market is
the 35 and over crowd..
• Source: InsideFacebook

59. E-Communications
• Twitter is for old people.
• Young adults (18-24) make up
10% of Twitter population.
Source: comScore

60. Clickers: regarding Twitter

61. Clickers: regarding Blogging

62. Blogging: This is not true

63. Clickers: online behavior

64. Lingo Lesson:
MMORPG

65. 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

66. 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

67. Clickers: cell phone usage

68. 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.

69. Clickers: mobile devices

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

71. Poll Results with Cell Phones

72. Clickers: Googled Yourself?

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

74. Lingo Lesson:
Digital Divide

75. Digital Divide – this one?

76. Digital Divide – or this one?

77. Clickers: Google Wave?

78. Innovation Comes in Waves

79. 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 quot;cloudquot; that
supports them.
 The term cloud is used as a metaphor for the
Internet. (Source: Wikipedia)

80. Moore’s Law Still in Effect

81. Higher Ed Moves Slowly

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