Hot Technologies for Net Learning Advances

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Hot Technologies for Net Learning Advances

• Roy Pea
• SRI International
• Center for Technology in Learning

A TeleLearning-NCE Board of Directors Roundtable
Discussion
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Overview

• Setting the context (CILT, CTL)
• Social networking apps (ICQ)
• Recommender systems (NetPerceptions)
• Educational object economies (EOE, ESCOT) and
  related issues (IMS, XML)
• Learning appliances
• Networked improvement communities

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Concord Consortium
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Center for Innovative Learning Technologies
http//cilt.org
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Social networking apps (ICQ)

• 20 million users as a free web-based technology
• Provides instant messaging and chat between
  online users, and enables URL transfers, file
  exchanges, online gaming
• Sold to AOL for 287 million in June98
• Like HotMail (Microsoft purchase), enables an
  aggregation play

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ICQ is THE most popular download on the Global
Internet!
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Why???
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Social Information Filtering

• Automated word of mouth concept
• 8-10 different companies including
  NetPerceptions GroupLens, Firefly, Alexa
  Internet, LikeMinds
• Example amazon.com book and music recommender
  systems
• Extensions with profiling for educators
• 11 marketing (pros and cons)

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Educational object economies

• Distributed educational component software
  libraries for re-use
• EOE
• ESCOT
• IMS
• XML

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ExampleEducational Object Economy

• Created by Jim Spohrer, et al. (Apple)
• Now a non-profit organization
• Building a sustainable community of small
  developers producing free educational applets
  (over 3000)
• http//www.eoe.org

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ESCOT (Educational SoftwareComponents of
Tomorrow)
A distributed network of teachers, researchers
developers creating link-able representational
tools for real middle school math curricula.
A new NSF grant (Pea, Roschelle, Kaput and
DiGiano)
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Distributed Intelligence Role of components

• Graphs, tables, calculators, geometry,
  simulations, equations, notepads probably 100 or
  so core active representational objects that
  occupy parts of a screen
• Enable mix-and-match, plugplay
• Cognitive research rationale
• Dynamic, linked multiple representations key for
  deeper understanding
• Animated graphics for process history
• Collaboration support
• Assessment support

• Leading to
• Lower cost
• Better quality
• More flexibility

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Geometers Sketchpad
ESCOT

• Goals
• Collect broadly useful, powerful components
• Link to curriculum needs
• Combine in new activities
• ESCOT Teams Integrate Re-usable Components from a
  Shared, Web-Accessible Library into Lessons
• Teacher Pedagogical Design
• Developer Component Design
• Web facilitator Web Design (and teamwork)

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Learning appliances

• Palm Pilot hits the form-function sweet spot
  (63 global market)
• 10,000 developers, serious OS
• Examples Probeware, MathWorlds
• Dubinsky-Hawkins new company Handspring (retail
  consumer market)

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Fastest adopted HH computing device of all time
Over 2 million
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Concord Consortium Sonar Ranger (CCSR) CILT
Project
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SimCalc MathWorlds(Roschelle and Kaput)
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HandSpring (Post-Palm Computing)

• "We believe the handheld computing business will
  be quite a bit bigger in unit volumes than the PC
  market, and looking at
  the possible growth areas, we think one of them
  is consumers -- individual
  purchasers spending their own money," said Ed
  Colligan, vice president of development and
  marketing at Handspring.
  (Nov 5, 1998, WiredNews)

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Networked improvement communities

• Doug Engelbarts work as context
• Example Tapped In
• ESCOT
• CILT
• PALS

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SRIs TAPPED IN Project(http//tappedin.sri.com)

• SRI International -- Center for Technology in
  Learning (Mark Schlager, Patricia Schank, Judith
  Fusco, Richard Goddard)
• Partners are twelve K-12 teacher professional
  development organizations devoted to science
  educational reform
• Goal to develop, operate and study an
  easy-to-learn, multi-user virtual environment for
  ongoing teacher professional development
• In 19 months over 2000 registered users already
• 1996-2000 Funding

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Lawrence Hall of Science GEMS Room
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