Future of Technology in Education

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Future of Technology in Education
Marci Powell Education Advocate, SBC
Communications
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Who Are We Educating?

• What level of education do they already have?
• What technologies are they accustomed to using?

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Current Technology Utilization

• Traditional Classrooms
• Textbooks
• Computers
• Handhelds
• Blended Modalities
• Online
• Videoconferencing
• Streaming
• Satellite
• Handheld Devices

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Where is Education Headed?
K-12

• Dual Credit- Onsite/Virtual
• Early College / Middle College
• Virtual Learning
• Concord Consortium-Virtual High School
• Florida Virtual Schools
• Texas- Numerous HBs to create virtual HS and a
  statewide virtual network
• Internet 2
• Handhelds/ PC Tablets / Blogging

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• Florida Virtual School Overview
• Fiscal Agent Orange County Public Schools
• Full High School Curriculum (Online)
• Includes Services For Students to Transition to
  Post Secondary Education Institution or Workplace
• 9,500 Students Registered from 85 Public School
  Districts and Charter Schools
• Targeting up to 12,500 Students by 2005
• Three Alternative Paces Accelerated, Standard,
  and Extended

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• Florida Virtual School Overview
• Florida Legislature Completely Funds This Program

State Funding Levels for Education
Technology Connectivity for Non-Virtual Schools
with Priority For Low Performing FY 2002
30M FY 2003 10M FY 2004
40M FY 2005 15M FY 2006 28M
Virtual School Funding Levels FY 1999
3.8M FY 2000 6.2M FY 2001
6.4M FY 2002 6.5M FY 2003
6.9M FY 2004 7.2M FY 2005
8.6M FY 2006 9.9M
12,500 Virtual Students
720 per Student per Year
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What is on the Horizon?

• Immediate and Continuing to Develop/Impact
• WiFi
• VRML
• Bandwidth to home- On Demand 6 Billion SBC
• PC tablet or PDA on steroids
• Holographic faculty to home K-20
• Faculty as free agents/ Students access classes
  from multiple institutions
• Stanford University, E-Army University, K-12
  across country and globe

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Device Based Learning
Sonys Portable Playstation How can we imagine
using a hand held "gaming" device that can play
video, audio, interactive modules, stream from a
wireless connection and automatically sense other
units nearby and invite collaboration with them.
Priced at 250 retail. http//www.masie.com/xlear
nlab/
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The Year 2030

• Exercise- 25 years from now- two/three word
  description of what education will look like.
• NO Expounding
• Panel Discussion- Each panelist chooses one
  description to expound upon Then audience asks
  questions.

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Future of Technology in Education
Marci Powell Education Advocate, SBC
Communications 210-633-5602 Marci.powell_at_sbc.com