 At this point, I'd like to introduce Major General James Sears Jr. to open our event. Major General James Sears Jr. is the Deputy Commander Air Education and Training Command, Joint Base San Antonio Randolph, Texas. The command is responsible for the recruiting, training, and education of Air and Space Force personnel and includes Air Force Recruiting Service, 19th Air Force, 2nd Air Force, the 59th Medical Wing, and Air University. ATC operates more than 1,400 trainer, fighter, and mobility aircraft, 24 wings, 11 bases, and five geographically separated groups. It governs approximately 60,000 active duty, reserve, guard, civilian, and contractor personnel to train more than 293,000 students per year. General Sears, thank you so much for being with us today. Sir, the floor is yours. Good morning. Thanks, Dana. Always good to hear you, particularly after you've had your morning coffee. Appreciate you bringing everybody into this with that energy. What a great event this looks to be. I wish that one of the things that I could do is the DECOM is have the time to be able to spend with you because I think that the richness that's going to come from the presenters and the people that you and Dr. Walsh and the team have been able to pull together really, really was great to see as I got to look through, I think starting with Dr. Ford this morning is going to be great as well. I'll have a couple of comments. I'm not going to intro him, but I'll have a couple of comments when I get to the end to talk about some of his history with the Air Force. He may be camouflaged by the Army right now, but we know he's in Irvin at heart. It's really interesting to hear when you think of a learning professionals consortium and what does that mean and what are the words that are in there to mean? I think that's something that we all need to think through and put a little bit of thought to as we go through. The goal for your time together is really to build a community of knowledgeable, incredible and I would also say committed learning professionals to be able to work together to make the entire Department of the Air Force better and to ensure that we're at all levels from BMT through PME to include people's times when they're gaining, not just education and training but the experience that they get as Airmen as they make their journey through the continuum of learning. We need to have people who are dedicated to learning, not just for themselves. Really in AETC we're creating lifelong learners with all the Airmen that we produce, the 293,000 that Dana mentioned in my bio there. But we need to have people across the Air Force who are dedicated to learning as a significant portion of their professional life and how we provide that to Airmen, how we provide that to commanders and what are the things that we can do within our realm as leaders in the learning community to be able to make that better for the entire Air Force. The goal was to build that community, my thought with what we're doing together this week is that we should have a much stronger network of better learning professionals who will create Airmen and prepare Airmen to compete and deter and win if required within the line of the national defense strategy that we're all operating under right now. I've already talked about we all should be lifelong learners and AETC puts a considerable amount of time in the early training of Airmen and young officers to develop those skills and develop that mindset and I think we would all agree that those who go on in their Air Force careers and our lifelong learners make better leaders, they make better followers and they're able to execute and do things better as we move on. So as you think about what it is you're going to do together this week, I want to put it to you in the terms that I do when I get to speak to commanders courses at various levels throughout the Air Force. When I get to talk with squadron commanders or those who are getting ready to be squadron commanders, talk about how at most levels throughout the Air Force up until the point of getting to squadron command with a few career field exceptions, we in the Air Force tend to focus on technical proficiency and we are doers for that portion of our career. There are some who get very deep learning and leadership opportunities at the flight commander level but squadron command is really where the Air Force, that leadership rubber meets the road. So when you become a squadron commander you get to be a leader of doers and that is a certain level of leadership and competency that you need to show as you lead your squadron and do things and there's things to talk about at that but when I get to speak to group and wing commanders, group commanders in particular is where you make this jump from a leader of doers to a leader of leaders and being a leader of leaders is really a very different mindset for how you move forward, how you develop culture, climate and execute the mission. Particularly in an age with a chief of staff of the Air Force who we all know about his action orders and the Air Force A3 if you didn't know is starting to roll out much like the rest of the joint world does. Five paragraph orders and using op-ords and frags and actually using orders to operationally move things forward in the Air Force but that's all under the label and rubric of mission type orders. Being able to delegate and move things down, allow leaders at the appropriate level to make the decisions within their purview and to take risk at their purview and inform upwards as opposed to requesting permission. Those are all things that we could have an argument this week on that alone whether or not we've done a good job of preparing leaders to do that, leaders of leaders and airmen. I would say in ATC we have made a big shift over the last year to be able to make that happen and to be able to create airmen who can operate within that environment and move the Air Force forward and prevail in the uncertain extremes quite frankly that will be in the Pacific should we end up there in conflict. So when you take that model of everything I just talked about and you transfer that to a learning professional consortium and learning professionals, if all airmen are lifelong learners or at least the best airmen are and if you think of the instructors, the trainers, all the way from the BMT level to the PME level, those people who are making sure that those airmen not only are lifelong learners but they're being profitable if you will in their lifelong learning. I would hope that the people who are here today are committed to learning and our learning professionals in a way to be the trainers and the educators of those people who are the trainers and educators. Kind of like being leaders of leaders and if you elevate yourself up and you take that view of what we're doing here this week together the experience you're going to be able to gain with the phenomenal guest speakers and folks that we're bringing in to work with us and to make us better learning professionals. I think it puts a good perspective on at least where I'm at with it and I think it will put you in that perspective to not just think about the things that you loved as being an educator of whatever sort that you have been in the Air Force but it will allow you to grow yourself and learn in a way that will help you help those who are just beginning that journey of being educators beyond the informal things that we frequently do as first level supervisors and early supervisors in our careers. AETC is really committed to making sure that as we produce airmen in our various programs that we have from all the AFSCs through professional military education to keep things airman-centric mission focused and competency based to be able to allow learners to learn at the pace and in the means that they do. We focus it on the mission not just what they know now but what they need to know to be successful in the future and then we're measuring the things and teaching the things that are required to be successful in their whatever that next level is for them in the in their Air Force journey so I hope you're able to take your time this week bring all of that together learn how to be professional educators of professional sorry learning professionals of learning professionals so that we can make the entire Department of the Air Force better as we go forward I've seen the data I've seen participants grow quite a bit and chat grow quite a bit it's a little early for questions but does anybody have anything out there for me no sir I'm not seeing anything in chat right now yep it's a it's a bit early for that so I think what I'll conclude within is thanks to everyone who has taken the time to spend with us today and and really learn where your education and training command is trying to take what we're doing not just with the not just with what I talked about being airman-centric mission focused in competency-based but with the technology the learning tools the ability to bring those things in you'll get to see some of our lines of effort you know in in particular how we're pivoting to tech training how we're trying to create what second Air Force calls six generation learning environments of the future and how we're bringing data into some of those things and we're hoping that we can use that bring a broader portion of the Air Force together is learning professionals and before I turn it over to you Dana you know Dr. four hopefully if he's on now so glad to see him come back and keynote this you know he's camouflaged if you will a bit by the Army right now but when I was a group commander in a wing commander he was the executive director at the Air Force personnel center so we worked together on a couple things there and and then when I got to be the director of assignments and deployments at Air Force at the Air Force personnel center he was the AFMC England so we we've worked together before and I appreciate that and we won't tell his Army boss that he's an airman at heart but I think it's going to be great to see him kick this off and look forward to hearing great things about that and with that data I'll turn it back over to you thank you thank you General Sears for being with us today we so appreciate your opening remarks so now I want to introduce Dr. four so like General Sears stated Dr. four did start out his career as an instructor in AETC separate Air Force base he gained expertise in technical training and then moved on to headquarters AETC AETC headquarters Air Force AFMC department of the justice and now he's with the department of the Army he was and still is a learning professional so he's currently the deputy assistant secretary of the Army civilian personnel within the office of the assistant secretary of the Army manpower and reserve affairs and is responsible for the human resource lifecycle affecting over two hundred ninety thousand Army civilians he leads the strategic planning of enterprise talent management and sets the strategic direction develops policy allocates resources and supervises all matters pertaining to civilian personnel policy to sustain and position the Army for the future so Dr. four I'm going to hand it over to you. All right thank you very much Dana good morning everyone Major General Sears good to see you thank you for your comments as well so I am not at home this is not my living room I am actually traveling this weekend we'll get to that in just a moment but let me talk about the purpose and kind of what I want to do with you here for just a couple of minutes this morning my intent is to really kind of spark your thinking as you start into this you know journey that you have the next couple of days about talking about learning and technology and the learning journey in general and then why is this really important this is important to you because you are a professional learner and you have the responsibility of teaching airmen of the future and so it's always amazing to me where out of the blue I'll get an email or out of the blue I will get a text message from someone or a LinkedIn note saying you know hey I don't know if you remember me but back when we were doing whatever you inspired me and today I finished a master's degree in you encouraged me or I'll hear from someone that was a student maybe when I was in I'm sorry an instructor when I was in education training command and they're like you know you taught me and you inspired me to be a good airman and now I just made master sergeant and I remember how important it was that you took a vested interest in me so I just kind of put those things out there to say hey it's important that you think about what you do as a professional in the learning environment and that's why I think that you are participating in part of this event today let me talk a little bit about the route of what I'm going to do here in just a couple of minutes first of all I'm going to talk about never stop learning then I'm going to transition into learning technologies for just a moment and then lastly I'll talk about the personal journey so I kind of centered around learning and so I want you to think about kind of those three areas and what that's going to mean for you over the next couple of hours and then lastly I'm going to open it up to some Q questions so that you have an opportunity to ask me a couple of questions so let me stop start with never stop learning well I'm at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill this week I am actually a student got my little name tagging my lanyard I am actually in a course that's an executive development opportunity to learn about data and data analytics to include artificial intelligence so as a lifelong learner I think that you got to continually grow as an individual think about what it is that you are centered about what you think about what's important to you and what's important to your professional as well as personal life so let me encourage all of you to think about what it means to you to be a lifelong learner now I've kind of tried to find a very quiet place that I can't guarantee that things aren't going to be happening here so please you know this is kind of like how we learn to deal with COVID so there may be people coming in and out but please don't let that distract us too much here so during the course you know it was the traditional read some articles but what we've really done this week in the course that I'm in so far is really take application and put it into realities we go into these breakout rooms and we have an opportunity to talk about it discuss it and bring it back together and so when you think about the learning and the learning process you know is it one way is it two way is it three way so think about the way that you deliver learning opportunities today in the environment where you're working when you think about your personal learning journey think about how you have evolved as a learner and so they didn't have Blackboard or Canvas today I mean like we have today you think about the way that you actually use your phone today I don't know about you but I never got an instruction never attended a class on how to use my phone but I'm actually a pretty good wizard at knowing how to make things happen on my phone so it's kind of the exploration kind of type of learning so think about you and how you inspire others think about how it takes self-motivation to be a learner but also think about how you inspire others to learn also think about maybe some things about learning that are kind of interesting in the fact that not all learning is intended not is not intended for positive outcomes the way we think it is there are bad actors who actually take advantage of learning opportunities to actually plant seeds and make things happen that necessarily aren't positive and how do you deal with those kinds of situations when you identify what those are and how you actually talk about socially those kinds of events that actually occur in the learning environment and then we all grow as learners and so again think about going back to that chalkboard think about going back to that book think about going to you know the homework that you had that you had to turn in maybe a written paper so today the learners whether they're in college university some sort of tech school think about those high school graduates that are now coming into the service and actually coming to your classroom they didn't learn the way that you or I may have traditionally learned they're using high technology they're using delivery of many many different kinds of learning devices so I've got friends that today are attending college that when I talk to them they have a Kindle all of their textbooks are given to them on a Kindle that they actually then use and it is interactive and so the Kindle device itself when they write questions when they highlight all of those kinds of things are sent back and then the instructor then internalizes those and then has a discussion about what the students thought about the reading activity that they completed let me turn to learning technology for just a couple of minutes I'm currently today and have been for a year or two now using chatbot to write for me and so today happens to be my sister's birthday and so I need to send her a message and so yeah I did send her a card because that's just kind of what we traditionally do but I also needed to send her a text message this morning and so I asked the chat box brought a happy birthday message and it said of course here's a happy birthday message you can use happy birthday on this special day I wish you all the happiness enjoying the world may this year be filled with love and laughter and wonderful memories may all your dreams and aspirations come true and may you be blessed with good health success prosperity and a fantastic birthday hope you have a great year ahead so I'm not one you know that's not too personal so I asked the chat box chat bot again brought a happy birthday message to my sister happy birthday to my dear sister on this special day I want to let you know how much you mean to me you have been my best friend and confident for as long as I can remember and I'm grateful for every moment we have shared together you bring so many joy and happiness so much joy and happiness into my life and I am lucky to have you as my sister may your birthday be filled with love laughter and wonderful memories that will last a lifetime may all your dreams and wishes come true and may this new year of your life be filled with happiness success and good health cheers to a wonderful sister and an amazing birthday I'll tell you I'm not going to send exactly that text message text message to her I'm going to edit it at some point but I've been using chat bot in my professional environment in many many areas I will ask it about research I'll ask it to write the message I'll ask it to write me a memory jogger and that way I have technology at my fingertips giving me the latest information that's out there so chat bot is just one way of introducing technology into the classroom and so you can use artificial intelligence to write you can ask artificial intelligence to answer questions for you so you can learn from interacting with just artificial intelligence let me transition to back to your learner and let's meet the learner's expectations I did mention a moment ago that the learners that we have today that are coming into our classroom is a much different type of learner the question for you is have you met that learner's expectation so that when you start in that learning environment that you can capitalize on their background and their learning experience to move forward so that in the continuum of the content that you're delivering you are best meeting their mental cognition and being able to challenge them provoke thought come up with application so think about wounds taxonomy I would hope that most of you are familiar with that here today where are you meeting that learner in wounds taxonomy and so I think you have to be cognizant of that learner in that environment that they have been in and the experience that they have to are you delivering technology and delivering content in the classroom that meets their expectation so I would hope that would be one topic that you would have this this week as you discuss learning in general so let me then transition to my last point with the learning technology that technology itself is an enabler and so you must be able to be familiar with technology to facilitate being that enabler and so let me encourage each and every one of you to make sure that you are on the cutting edge of technology understand what it means for the classroom and for your learner now let me transition to learning as a personal journey so for me I've been learning in my entire life and so the way I've learned has changed I think I mentioned how I learned to use my cell phone the way today I use artificial intelligence to do writing for me and so in many ways and this is what the research tells us learning is individualistic a learner comes to a learning environment with their own biases and own advantages and how they learn so get to understand what that learner has from a basic experience and then be able to capitalize that within your learning environment so again research tells us that the way we learn changes over time you can introduce new learning technology new ways of learning as you transition in the classroom so it may be that you record in some form or fashion the event whether it's training rehearsal practice or a live event and then you use that recording in a way to teach the learner the process or the reaction that they should have at various points in time I remember a number of years ago I was at a course and it was all about communication and intentionally they put us in a studio and they had someone rush in with a microphone and asked us a very important question and the challenge was and they graded us on how well did you answer that question we went into it not understanding that was the task but we came out of it being able to build on our communication skills to be able to then address a question that would come from potential media and so I thought that was a really really informative way of doing it and you just didn't learn from my bad video we got to look at everyone's video that was in the class and we dissected everyone's video so it was really kind of an experience that was very humbling but at the same point in time we got try number two and then we all watched try number two and how much we all improved it being able to be stumped by a media reporter when they run up to you and ask you a question and so let me ask you once again to reflect on your learning preference over time and think about the learning preference that you have in your classroom today with the individuals who are sitting there in your classrooms in your education and training community now how do you as a leader take what you explore this week and turn it into how you relate with cognition so I ask that kind of question rhetorically but I think that that's kind of the point of your meeting this week and the content this week is so that you have an opportunity to grow and expand ask questions hear what other aspects are and then how do you take that whether you responsible for curriculum design and development or you're responsible for supervision of training and education whether you're responsible for developing policy or whether you're responsible for the operation of training itself many many different aspects so think about that learning environment and your role in that learning environment and how you take what you learn in the next couple of days into the learning responsibility that you have within your area of responsibility so I've kind of had a brief opportunity to say hello and give you some of my thoughts this morning and I talked a little bit about that never stop learning then I moved into the learning technology and then kind of concluded with a little bit of the personal learning journey so I would like to stop here and see if Dana can facilitate any questions that we might have out there thank you doctor for yes people have been messaging me for questions for you so so I'm going to read this one slowly it's kind of long what what do you recommend to stay on the cutting edge of technology while not investing too heavily in educational technologies that leave the marketplace as quickly as they emerge so that's a really important question especially in a large environment that you're in and maybe a resource constrained environment so I saw a a simulation earlier this week that was really keep it super simple but it made the point and it wasn't a great investment in dollars to demonstrate it it was computer learning was the example and they took an old Atari game and they had a computer set up and they gave the computer no rules and the computer lost you know 70 percent of the time plus in the first 50 games obviously it lost every time in the first 25 and then as it got smarter and smarter at that 50 percent time it was around that 70 success so they used a real simple example that really really demonstrated the the machine learning and how machine learning now when it got up to playing over 500 games it beat the computer the computer beat the Atari game every single time and so it was really kind of a very simple very cheap solution another thing that I kind of do now is a lot of times before I do anything I run to YouTube and I'm like I look for an instructional YouTube video on how to do blank and so there are tons of things out there today on the internet that you could actually look make sure it fits the application that you're you're looking for and then you can play a real quick YouTube video now something that's even a little bit more kind of interesting is make a little video yourself and then show that video as a means of demonstration and so there are a lots of inexpensive ways to use technology in the classroom I'm sure that you could have a focus group of the number of people that are signed on here today and come up with hundreds of ideas of how to use low-cost technology in the classroom but at the same point in time think about that learner think about what that learners expectations are you know this is the number one air force in the world and you're bringing somebody in and you're giving them a handful of papers and a question and answer book of some sort and they're looking at you going this is the most capable air force in the world and you just given me a handout and so yeah think about the technology think about the application and the lifespan of that technology and is it worth the investment thank you your next question how can we motivate and encourage service members to be self-directed learners to push the importance of professional development so i would actually start with what is the air force mission how does that mission relate to what their occupation is going to be or currently is if they're maybe a five level student coming back and be able to talk about how important it is to be able to do x and so you know whether it is a phlebotomist in the hospital and you taught people how to do that in the organization or whether it is an air traffic controller that is got people's lives in their hand and their responsibility is to line up those airframes at the speed of which they need to fly to actually get to that end of the runway and so be able to tie that mission of their AFSC to where they are and why it's important for them to be the number one person in learning and being able to carry out the job that they've been asked or have volunteered to move into so you know for me i think tying it to me the mission and how important it is for the responsibility that you have and being able to teach airmen and then that airmen be able to go out and perform their responsibilities for the mission all right so this is an interesting question where do you recommend someone start to becoming a lifelong learner and how can they move forward when life and work obstacles interfere with their journey hey we all have a challenge of work life balance and so i kind of think at some point in time you've got to be able to be a goal setter and part of goal setting is identifying those tasks to meet that goal so over the years i have done a great delivery search on goal setting and goal attainment and so in doing so you have to actually know getting right the goals down my goal is to run a marathon in the next three years well what are some of the things that you need to be able to do to achieve that goal well you need to have the right equipment so you're going to have to have some running shoes and probably some running gear it probably would help some motivation if you had a buddy that would kind of you know maybe encourage you to run and you're going to start off maybe running a half mile and then you're going to maybe register and sign up and you and your friend or group of friends that you run with now are going to do a 5k together and so what are some of the tasks that would lead up to goal attainment and so i really believe that there are going to be things that are going to get in the way of potentially learning there may be things in life that you have to take care of from a maslow's hierarchy food safety shelter before you can actually kind of kind of then get to that cognition level but i think having an overall understanding and a goal setting for yourself is critically important and that tasks that you have and they don't have to be in any certain order but there are tasks that you need for goal attainment so what is your goal is it to complete a master's degree is your goal to complete the master's degree is your goal to have to run a marathon is it your goal to be a triathlete is it your goal to read a 500 page book whatever that goal is you know have some small tasks that help you get there read 25 pages a day and after you read 25 pages a day you'll eventually get your 500 page book read so i think understanding and identifying what your work and life balance and life challenges are is really insightful for you to set goals to be able to achieve the desired outcome you're looking for thank you do you find that younger people are more willing to use new technology than older people or do you find that in general most people are overarchingly willing to learn all the new technologies that that they're encountering so i may be kind of biased on this one because i'm old and but i like technology and i've always been kind of stimulated by using technology and so my dad's 93 he has an iphone he can use that iphone in fact we had to be like very cognizant about taking phone numbers out because he would text and or call people just randomly and so you know i don't necessarily know that age is the issue specifically with application or use of technology in life availability may definitely be a key and so if you think about socio-economic availability to technology and using technology but i think it's relative and i think everyone is at their individual comfort level and being able to adapt and grow as technology grows all right people are just posting lots of questions here so how do you encourage service members who want to continue to learn without relying on ai to do everything for them how do you strike a balance there so there are many many different ways that you can continue learning as an airman and so whether it's professional military education going out participating in various events so i know that there are gaming parts of the air force where individuals are part of gaming and we have gaming challenges and so you know one way to be able to encourage airmen in at least the younger individuals who are gamers is to encourage them to join the air force gaming opportunities they see out there and there are also i think other opportunities that you have in the environment to be able to have learning opportunities associated with various technologies and so you know think about being i grew up in aircraft maintenance a vast majority of my time you know you think about encouraging individuals to go get an api license associated with mechanics and mechanical engineering and there are online avenues to do that you can even think about other opportunities that you have across your at least 400 plus afsc's where there are other avenues that individuals can go learn and it is a self-paced rapid advancement to a point where now then you're challenged because this is a new content area and so maybe ask among some of your peers that you are are here with this week to be able to maybe come up with some ideas of their own as far as how would you encourage if where could airmen go to continue their learning whether it may be a lifelong learning in a work-life balance or maybe just content within a specific area they're interested in dr four i've gotten a few questions asking about your personal learning journey how did you get from an instructor to where you are today what what helped you get there what thought processes and so i've had different questions asking about that all right dana i'm going to try to make this short because this is this is about you as an audience but i'll but i'll kind of share my story with you both my parents did not graduate from a college or university my father did not graduate from high school he was born in 1929 his entire childhood was a depression of the 30s he was the oldest son in the family and he went out about every job he could to be able to make every dollar he could help the family put food on the table he's one of the most intelligent people i know still today you can give him any algebra or calculus problem and he can solve that without any formal education because he's all self-taught so it was from day one in my family it was you're going to college every single one of my cousins have graduated from college i don't think i had an aunt and uncle before that that did so it was part of that generation where my parents grew up that they instilled the value of education and so after i finished my bachelor's degree i was fortunate enough to become an intern a palace acquire intern at shepherd air force space in which they offered tuition assistance and i started a master's degree at midwestern state university and so i completed that master's degree the air force paid for the vast majority of that i just had the time commitment to be able to go there and do that and at the end of that program i had a professor and she encouraged me because this is way too easy for you let me encourage you to continue your pursuits of your education so i think i took a month or two to think about that i applied to the university of north texas they had a satellite program at shepherd air force base as well as it was close enough to drive to this is kind of where i got to know dr angie canardom much much better because we had a lot of the same classes we would even commute to class some together so we both completed our phd about the same time there at the university of north texas and in applied technology training and employee development so it was kind of very very related to the field that we were both working at that point in time and so during my air force career i had did have the opportunity to do basic developmental professional military education as well as intermediate i did the basic in resident at squadron officer school then i had an opportunity to compete for attending war college and i did that through the developmental team and i was a vector to attend air war college i was selected and attended air war college and so you know from then i was fortunate enough i had coaching mentors that you know pushed me along the way and gave me encouragement and i had one specific three star that was very very active and encouraging me and you know one day he called me and said hey look we need you to go to the air staff and we need you to represent and carry the torch of air education and train command in the resourcing of programs and dollars so i did that there and you know being able to grow on the experience you know was very very critical and important and being able to kind of be the stepping step stepping step to many many other future opportunities so that you know my philosophy on on that is when a door opens or a window opens and you have the opportunity walk through it and if it's if that doesn't you know end up being the part of the journey that you want to continue create another door to open for you and and transition to another opportunity where you find yourself enriched and challenged i will guarantee i will i will tell you this it's it's been a challenge for work-life balance over years uh you know and sometimes you just have to kind of go all right um i got to get back to my cardio and healthy eating lifestyle i can't you know work from six in the morning till six in the evening and do nothing but eat you know junk food and not have any kind of social life so um let me encourage you to be very thoughtful about that as well thank you sir dr waltz did you have a question thank you so much for your remarks and for being with us today i'm just inspired by you and uh and how you've used technology i loved all the points that you shared with us and i was just in your journeys have you seen some exemplars for actually sharing information we have some great exemplars i mean this gathering is one of how we're coming together to share information uh efforts challenges successes we have i put in the chat some others we have these instructional technology units across our bases that are doing amazing things uh in partnership with our learning professionals but sometimes those exemplars just stay on that base and we're trying to to share that information you also mentioned youtube and we have an airman focused training videos within milk suite again people are not learning about it and so we're not collectively growing some of these assets are figuring out how we can support them or if they're worth supporting or where where you know just where we might apply them and so i wanted to you've been kind of all around now in several services and and seen a lot of things and wondered if you had any advice or uh input on how we could share information efforts more effectively over thank you well i really think the form that you're having here today is one of those avenues where you can do that you know there are other technological ways that you can share information where you actually have you know whether you're posting and adding information and having an open kind of chat environment you can create that and so there are there's specific technologies that you have where you can actually share content and some of it's actually free out there but you may want to do something more internal so that you can take the stuff that's happening in Goodfellow and maybe share it with the stuff that's happening down at Lackland or the stuff that's happening over at Keesler and so you know you might even think about just having a focused event that might be a three hour event where each party gets 45 minutes to you know share two of their applications that they've been working on or two of the real-life situations where they've done something to facilitate the use of technology in the classroom. Excellent thank you very much i think we have a lot of those sort of efforts happening here and there and so again this community is just amazing and how they're working together to try to share those but they're also very stretched very thin so i'll continue to look and ask the question but i really appreciate your answer thank you sir. Thank you doctor for i really appreciate your time and energy today it's really been a delight to hear your unique perspectives and about your experiences thank you for your time today. All right thank you everyone and lastly take advantage of this opportunity that you have in front of you write down at least two goals when you finish the end of this program of things that you are going to do whether it's professionally at work or in your personal life and then a couple of tasks that is going to help you to achieve that goal so that's my call to action for you congratulations and thank you on this opportunity that you've got in front of you and let me thank you for all you do every day to support our airmen and their families around the world. Have a great conference.