A presentation I gave to Music students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham regarding Technology. The slides are primarily pictures and text related to the students need to transfer from being a consumer of technology to a creator.

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

2. Everyone Thinks You
Are An
Idiot
and so do I

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

8. The more they attend
to themselves,

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

10. Fonts of
knowledge
are
everywhere

11. Rising
generation is
camped in
the desert

12. texting

13. tunes

14. social

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

16. Where are professors
when it comes to
technology?

17. Where are professors when it comes to
technology?

18. Where are professors when it comes to
technology?

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

20. Where are professors when it comes to
technology?

21. Where are professors when it comes to
technology?

25. presentation software
is a tool, not a solution.

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

29. in the beginning . . .

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

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

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

36. Attending a lecture

37. Attending a lecture
specific time and place

38. Attending a lecture
specific time and place
mediocre professor

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

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

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

42. students are
fact-checking
professors in class.

43. we aren’t used to the
scrutiny.

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

46. our old models of
learning

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

48. back to you

49. back to you

50. You Don’t Know
Anything About
Technology

51. expert consumers

52. expert consumers
novice creators

53. technology entertains

54. technology entertains
but it doesn’t instruct

55. informs you of events

56. informs you of events
doesn’t keep you organized

57. computer accompanies
you to class

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

59. spend hundreds on
iTunes

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

61. Creativity
Organization
Life long learning

62. Moving from the
Consumer to the
Creator

66. the future belongs to a
very different kind of
person

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

68. inventiveness
empathy
meaning

69. agricultural age
industrial age
information age

70. conceptual age =
creators and
empathizers

72. organization

73. perhaps you are already
organized

74. perhaps you are already
hyper - organized

75. perhaps you are already
hyper - organized

76. Getting Things Done

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

80. mind like water

89. Not every answer to
organization is with
technology

90. Technology tools for
the student

95. collaborating

97. Life Long Learning
LLL

99. always have a book

100. get smarter friends

101. unlearn assumptions

102. listen to smart people

104. tools i use that you
might enjoy

105. mindmapping

107. instapaper

111. evernote

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