Clicker slides from my presentation at League for Innovation in Community Colleges - Conference on Information Technology (CIT) - October 2009 in Detroit, Michigan

1. Teaching with Technology
Myths and Realities
Barry Dahl
Lake Superior College

3. ITC eLearning 2010
February 20-23
Fort Worth Omni Hotel
More info at itcnetwork.org

4. Clicker Time
Practice Question
Famous Quotes from Famous People

5. Famous Quotes #1
• P.T. Barnum once said:
• “There’s a sucker born every
minute.”
• (Or did he?)

6. Famous Quotes #2
• Mark Twain once said:
• “The coldest winter I ever spent was
a summer in San Francisco.”
• (Or did he?)

7. Famous Quotes #3
• Sigmund Freud once said:
• “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
• (Or did he?)

12. Myths and Realities of
Teaching with Technology
For each of these, just pick a side.
No middle ground allowed.
Which do you think is most true?

19. Net Generation

20. Next Generation

21. Nexters

22. Texters

23. Generation Y

24. Generation Why

25. Millennials

26. Digital Natives

27. Generation Now

28. iGeneration

29. Echo Boomers

30. Google
Generation

31. Nintendo
Generation

32. Trophy
Generation

33. Screenagers

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

35. Digital
Net-Gennials

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

39. Name this Device

40. 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.

42. Which Digital Divide?

47. Source: Stanford

51. Not this kind of entertainment

52. More like a Tupperware Party

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

56. Which is closer to your position on
students having cell phones in schools?
• Ban them! They are a complete distraction
and detract from learning.
• Use them! They are powerful devices that
can be used for learning.
Choices:

73. Time to learn
new things

74. I Don’t Have the Time
• Since when is it okay for a teacher to stop
learning?
• Are you sure that all the things you do now
are more valuable than learning new things?
• What if the new things make you better, or
more efficient, or more effective?

77. Faculty are embracing the concept of
shareable learning objects.
Reality
M
yth
79%
21%
1.Reality
2.Myth

79. Learning Objects?
• Define SCORM.
• What is a SCO?
• Name 3 different ways that an LOR
can be used effectively.
• Huh? What’s an LOR?

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