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
tunes
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?
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?
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
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
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

You Dont Know Anything About Technology

Editor's Notes

  • #64 We are the creators of the world
  • #72 Find a way to be creative, especially with technology. You likely have that bent anyway . . . use it . . . you’ll find that your creativity will give you energy for new tasks.