Future Tech
The “Next Big Thing” In
Technology For The Classroom.
Handheld Devices For All
Inventor Plans New Computing
Platform for Students
The new PDA will be more of a wireless
communicating device than a computer. It will have
a built-in peer-to-peer network that will not require
the Internet for users to stay connected. However,
it will also have full Internet browsing capabilities.
Mark Menarik, CEO of Chicago-based TanCher,
said the device will focus on maximizing the
wireless capabilities for the educational market.
www.technewsworld.com/story/40471.html
Palm Mobilizes Teaching &
Learning
All Students Become Successful
with Handhelds
http://www.palm.com/us/education/studies/#k12
Sebastian Elementary School
Fourth graders in Preziosi's class have not only taken to the Palm
Tungsten handhelds, they won't let go of them.
When the kids are using the handhelds, I have to pry them out of
their hands," says Preziosi. "They take charge and keep a close
watch over them
They've found many ways to use the handhelds and GoKnow
software in language arts activities. Using Freewrite, students
write reading response journals and compose fractured fairy tales,
typing on wireless keyboards attached to the handhelds. They
beam the tales around the class so that others can add to them.
http://solutions.palm.com/regac/success_stories/education/education_de
tails.jsp?storyId=1296
South Fayette Elementary School
Engaging Digital Kids
His students use a number of software programs to help them
with their writing. They brainstorm with concept mapping tools
like GoKnow's PicoMap. They'll write up a rough draft on their
handheld using the Memo Pad or GoKnow's FreeWrite and
beam it to a fellow student for review. Then they make edits.
"The kids do more revising when they can do it digitally," says
Sundgren. "Plus they're more engaged throughout the writing
process when they use the handhelds."
http://solutions.palm.com/regac/success_stories/education/education_details.jsp?s
toryId=1201
techLEARNING
The Handheld Educator
http://www.techlearning.com/palmonepavilion/index.html
Education World
Laptops, Handhelds, or Tablet
PCs?
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech/tech198.shtmlhttp://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech198.shtml
Tablet PC’s
The Benefits of Tablet PC’s for
Educators
How Tablet Pc’s Are Being Used In Education
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Lecturing
Collaboration
Discipline-specific applications
Note-taking
Grading and reading documents
Creating figures and diagrams
Brainstorming
How Tablet Pc’s Are Being Used In Education
• Many are using tablets with a projector & Journal
or OneNote to replace the traditional
whiteboard/blackboard
• Benefits
– Supports real-time writing; everything does not need to
be done in advance, as in PowerPoint
• Some material difficult to do in PowerPoint (e.g. equations,
Chinese)
• Material can still be prepared in advance
– Can archive lecture content, don’t need tablet PC to view
– Face toward class instead of toward the board
– No messy chalk, markers, or erasers needed
• Can return to material that would be erased on a board
• But do need a projector
Collaboration Possibilities
If all students in the class have Tablet PC’s
then interesting collaboration
opportunities are possible with the
wireless networking
Other Classroom Uses
• Real-Time Grading?
• Brainstorming and Design
• Note Sharing
– Various applications developed
• Instructor feedback?
– Could provide instant feedback to gauge audience’s
comprehension
• Distance Education?
– Possibilities for distance education, can share data
across a network with tools such as Media Encoder or
NetMeeting
Discipline-Specific Applications
• Tablet PC applications for specific
disciplines are just emerging
• Mathematics
– xThink calculator
– Upcoming Math Journal
product
• Physics
– MagicPaper
Art
• Pen is pressure-sensitive on most models
• Alias Sketchbook Pro
Music
• Composition Tool, Brown University
GIS & Mapping
• GIS and Mapping
• Ruggedized Tablet PC for Military uses
Applications for Children
• Lots of child-oriented applications
– Math
– Art, painting
– Learning to write in cursive
Uses Outside the Classroom
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Preparing figures and diagrams
Grading papers
eBooks
Web
– New applications such as TabletBlogger, incorporate
ink with blog
• Instant Messaging
– Communicate with students or colleagues in ink with
MSN Messenger
For More Information
http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~
afkjm/tablet/
Cell Phone
Friend Or Foe
Friend Or Foe
Imagine the following scenario:
You are a 16-year old student, sitting at a bus stop waiting for your
bus to arrive. Trying to prepare for your upcoming Geometry exam
you take out your cellular phone, open the installed mathematics
m-Book and start learning—you review theorems and definitions
while manipulating interactive diagrams, search the web to look
for additional definitions, use geometry applets to explore
concepts and test your understanding by doing some quizzes that
your teacher stored in the class site for you to browse from the
mobile device. You are already on your bus when your friend calls
and asks for help with an exercise. You both then send a message
attaching the module of the exercise each of you reviewed and
compare the solving attempts. Now you feel ready to send the
exercises to your teacher for her or him to check them.
Friend Or Foe
The education community has proved slow to
explore the new reality that this device
introduces. While there is still a lot to learn about
uses of cellular phones for purposes other than
phone calls, it becomes obvious that treating
them only as a distraction to school and to the
proper education is the wrong way to go ( as we
treated computers in school a generation ago).
Mobile phones and mobile learning will allow
students to learn anytime, anywhere and with any
media.
Friend Or Foe
Clearly, the potential for educational applications
is huge: Students use updated educational
applications on their phones, whenever it is
convenient to them. They share their learning
process and outcomes, without being in the same
physical place (thus using emails, blogging, video
streaming and MMS, internet browsing and many
more) and they may get personal tailored exams
and quizzes on their cellular phones.
Friend Or Foe
http://construct.haifa.ac.il/~michalyr/celular%20report.pdf
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/PrenskyWhat_Can_You_Learn_From_a_Cell_Phone-FINAL.pdf
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20%20But%20the%20screen%20is%20too%20small.pdf
The Read/Write Web
The Web Is No Longer
“Read Only”
The Read/Write Web
We really have an opportunity to ask our students to
become more than just receivers of knowledge. They
can become transmitters of that knowledge, teachers of
it in easy, meaningful ways.
http://www.schwoebel.net/wpjoe/category/readwrite-web/
What is the Read/Write Web?
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Blogging
Aggregators http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregators
Wikis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Social Bookmarks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking
• Online Rubric Construction
• Online Graphing Tools
• Online Digital Photo Tools
What Does the Read/Write Web
Hold for Education?
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Every Ready a Writer
Simplification and De-commercialization
Increased Idea Transparency
Heightened Need for Safe Internet
Practices
• Greater Potential for Student-centered
Education
http://www.wtvi.com/TEKS/04_05_articles/read-write-web.html
http://del.icio.us/wfryer/ReadWriteWebTools
All Things Multimedia
Research on Multimedia in
Education
All Things Multimedia
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Still Cameras (cell phones?)
Text Messaging (cell phones?)
Video Cameras (cell phones?)
Scanners (coming soon to cell phone near you)
Video Projectors (I don’t think so…)
DVD Burners and Authoring Tools
All Things Multimedia
And the software and skills to create multimedia
presentations from the output of these multimedia
devices…
Photo Editing
Video Editing
PowerPoint
Flash
Drawing software (Illustrator)
etc…..
All Things Multimedia
• Video Curriculum/Enhancements
– www.unitedstreaming.com
– www.vbrick.com
• Multi-Functional Camera Systems
– http://www.casio.com/products/Projectors/Mult
i-Functional_Camera_System/
Podcasting and Vodcasting
The Read/Write Web Goes
Multimedia
Podcasting
• Method for distributing audio files over the
web for playback on mobile devices and
computers
• Distributed using RSS (Real Simple
Syndication), Atom Syndication, and
others
• Essence is about creating content for an
audience that wants to listen when, where,
and how they want
Vodcasting
• Method for distributing video files over the
web for playback on mobile devices and
computers
• Distributed using RSS (Real Simple
Syndication), Atom Syndication, and
others
• Essence is about creating content for an
audience that wants to watch when,
where, and how they want
Podcasting and Vodcasting
• Content creators need technology to
create and edit audio and/or video files
• Prepared files (called shows) are uploaded
to a web server or streaming server
• Content creators/managers create, edit
and manage an xlm file to which
subscribers subscribe
Podcasting and Vodcasting
• End users need an aggregator to
subscribe to the “feed”
– Juice from iPodder
– iTunes
– Many others
• Aggregators can be configured to
automatically check subscriptions for new
feeds and download them when available
Podcasting and Vodcasting In The
Classroom
• http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/
podcasting/
• http://www.apple.com/education/resources
/podcastingvideos/?cid=CDM2589A-1
(video series on Podcasting in the
Classroom)
• http://www.darcynorman.net/2004/10/30/p
odcasting-for-education
• Educators Give iPod High Marks
Pod-Vodcasting Links
• http://www.technewsworld.com/story/4992
5.html
• http://www.technewsworld.com/story/4951
9.html
• http://www.technewsworld.com/story/4937
6.html
• http://www.makepropaganda.com/
All Things Wireless
Cutting The (Cat5) Cord
All Things Wireless
• http://www.microsoft.com/uk/education/tec
h-solutions/wireless/
• http://www.mobileaccess.com/solution_ed
ucation.cfm
• http://www.peakgroup.net/wte.html
• http://www.buildings.com/Articles/detail.as
p?articleid=1466
All Things Wireless
• http://www.technewsworld.com/story/46131.html
• http://www.technewsworld.com/story/40471.html
• http://www.projectorpeople.com/projectors/searchfeatures-results.asp
• http://www.projectorpeople.com/screens/wijet.asp
• http://www.earthwalk.com/Products/index.html
Interactive Online Presence
Beefing Up The School Website
Interactive Online Presence
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http://www.chalksite.com/
http://moodle.org/
http://online.esc2.net
http://www.schoolcenter.com/
http://www.schoolcruiser.com/welcome.html
Whiteboards
The 21st Century Chalkboard
Whiteboards
• http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/
• http://i.cmpnet.com/techlearning/whitepap
ers/whiteboard_cs0406.pdf
Mass Storage
A Big House For Big Files
OR
Protecting Your Data From Loss
Due to Hardware Failure
A Big House
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http://www.mountainplains.org/articles/20
03/pedagogy/Network%20Attached%20
Storage (serious article)
http://www.gateway.com/work/products/c
p_stg_catalog.shtml?clv=LNav
Making The Move To Open
Source?
Open Source Links
• http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,
45862,00.html
• http://www.gnu.org/
• http://www.freeos.com/
• http://k12linux.org/contents.html
• http://www.k12ltsp.org/
• http://k12os.org/
• http://www.openoffice.org/
Manage and Control
Technology
How To Be The Benevolent
Dictator Of You Computer Domain
(lab)
What Are Your Students Looking At?
• http://www.genevalogic.com/index.php?id=
532
• http://www.lanschooldirect.com/
Thin Client Computing
Dumb Terminals May Not Be So
Dumb After All…
Getting Thin
• http://www.ncte.ie/ICTAdviceSupport/AdviceSheets/Thin
ClientNetworks/
• http://www.amd.com/usen/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/30825A_T
hinClientSchool.pdf
• http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?page=13&res
ID=1567
• http://www.emboot.com/products_simplyRDP.htm
• http://www.national.com/cgibin/DiagramTemplate?DiagramName=ThinClient