Future TechFuture Tech

The “Next Big Thing” In Technology For The Classroom.

The “Next Big Thing” In Technology For The Classroom.

Handheld Devices For AllHandheld Devices For All

Inventor Plans New Computing Platform for Students

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

Palm Mobilizes Teaching & Learning

All Students Become Successful with Handhelds

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_details.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?storyId=1201

techLEARNINGtechLEARNING

The Handheld EducatorThe Handheld Educator

http://www.techlearning.com/palmonepavilion/index.html

Education WorldEducation World

Laptops, Handhelds, or Tablet PCs?

Laptops, Handhelds, or Tablet PCs?

http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech/tech198.shtmlhttp://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech/tech198.shtml

Tablet PC’sTablet PC’s

The Benefits of Tablet PC’s for Educators

The Benefits of Tablet PC’s for Educators

How Tablet Pc’s Are Being Used In Education

• 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

• 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 InformationFor More Information

http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~afkjm/tablet/

http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~afkjm/tablet/

Cell PhoneCell Phone

Friend Or FoeFriend 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

Friend Or Foe

http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky-What_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 WebThe Read/Write Web

The Web Is No Longer

“Read Only”

The Web Is No Longer

“Read Only”

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/

The Read/Write Web

What is the Read/Write Web?

• 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?• 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 MultimediaAll Things Multimedia

Research on Multimedia in Education Research on Multimedia in Education

All Things Multimedia

• 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

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

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 VodcastingPodcasting and Vodcasting

The Read/Write Web Goes Multimedia

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/podcasting-for-education

• Educators Give iPod High Marks

Pod-Vodcasting Links

• http://www.technewsworld.com/story/49925.html

• http://www.technewsworld.com/story/49519.html

• http://www.technewsworld.com/story/49376.html

• http://www.makepropaganda.com/

All Things WirelessAll Things Wireless

Cutting The (Cat5) CordCutting The (Cat5) Cord

All Things Wireless

• http://www.microsoft.com/uk/education/tech-solutions/wireless/

• http://www.mobileaccess.com/solution_education.cfm

• http://www.peakgroup.net/wte.html

• http://www.buildings.com/Articles/detail.asp?articleid=1466

All Things Wireless

• http://www.technewsworld.com/story/46131.html• http://www.technewsworld.com/story/40471.html• http://www.projectorpeople.com/projectors/search-feat

ures-results.asp• http://www.projectorpeople.com/screens/wijet.asp• http://www.earthwalk.com/Products/index.html

Interactive Online PresenceInteractive Online Presence

Beefing Up The School WebsiteBeefing Up The School Website

Interactive Online Presence

1. http://www.chalksite.com/

2. http://moodle.org/

3. http://online.esc2.net

4. http://www.schoolcenter.com/

5. http://www.schoolcruiser.com/welcome.html

WhiteboardsWhiteboards

The 21st Century ChalkboardThe 21st Century Chalkboard

Whiteboards

• http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/

• http://i.cmpnet.com/techlearning/whitepapers/whiteboard_cs0406.pdf

Mass StorageMass Storage

A Big House For Big Files

OR

Protecting Your Data From Loss Due to Hardware Failure

A Big House For Big Files

OR

Protecting Your Data From Loss Due to Hardware Failure

A Big House

• http://www.mountainplains.org/articles/2003/pedagogy/Network%20Attached%20Storage (serious article)

• http://www.gateway.com/work/products/cp_stg_catalog.shtml?clv=LNav

Making The Move To Open Source?

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

Manage and Control Technology

How To Be The Benevolent Dictator Of You Computer Domain

(lab)

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 ComputingThin Client Computing

Dumb Terminals May Not Be So Dumb After All…

Dumb Terminals May Not Be So Dumb After All…

Getting Thin

• http://www.ncte.ie/ICTAdviceSupport/AdviceSheets/ThinClientNetworks/

• http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/30825A_ThinClientSchool.pdf

• http://ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?page=13&resID=1567

• http://www.emboot.com/products_simplyRDP.htm • http://www.national.com/cgi-bin/DiagramTemplate?

DiagramName=ThinClient