Future Tech

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Future Tech

• The Next Big Thing In Technology For The
  Classroom.

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Handheld Devices For All

• Inventor Plans New Computing Platform for
  Students

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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
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Palm Mobilizes Teaching Learning

• All Students Become Successful with Handhelds

http//www.palm.com/us/education/studies/k12
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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/ed
ucation/education_details.jsp?storyId1296
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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/ed
ucation/education_details.jsp?storyId1201
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techLEARNING

• The Handheld Educator

http//www.techlearning.com/palmonepavilion/index.
html
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Education World

• Laptops, Handhelds, or Tablet PCs?

http//www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech/tech198
.shtmlhttp//www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech/t
ech198.shtml
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Tablet PCs

• The Benefits of Tablet PCs for Educators

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How Tablet Pcs Are Being Used In Education

• Lecturing
• Collaboration
• Discipline-specific applications
• Note-taking
• Grading and reading documents
• Creating figures and diagrams
• Brainstorming

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How Tablet Pcs 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, dont 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

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Collaboration Possibilities
If all students in the class have Tablet PCs
then interesting collaboration opportunities are
possible with the wireless networking
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Other Classroom Uses

• Real-Time Grading?
• Brainstorming and Design
• Note Sharing
• Various applications developed
• Instructor feedback?
• Could provide instant feedback to gauge
  audiences comprehension
• Distance Education?
• Possibilities for distance education, can share
  data across a network with tools such as Media
  Encoder or NetMeeting

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Discipline-Specific Applications

• Tablet PC applications for specific disciplines
  are just emerging
• Mathematics
• xThink calculator
• Upcoming Math Journal product
• Physics
• MagicPaper

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Art

• Pen is pressure-sensitive on most models
• Alias Sketchbook Pro

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Music

• Composition Tool, Brown University

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GIS Mapping

• GIS and Mapping
• Ruggedized Tablet PC for Military uses

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Applications for Children

• Lots of child-oriented applications
• Math
• Art, painting
• Learning to write in cursive

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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

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For More Information

• http//www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/afkjm/tablet/

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Cell Phone

• Friend Or Foe

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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 learningyou 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.
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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.
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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.
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Friend Or Foe
http//construct.haifa.ac.il/michalyr/celular20r
eport.pdf
http//www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky-What_Ca
n_You_Learn_From_a_Cell_Phone-FINAL.pdf
http//www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky20-20B
ut20the20screen20is20too20small.pdf
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The Read/Write Web

• The Web Is No Longer
• Read Only

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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/
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What is the Read/Write Web?

• Blogging
• Aggregators http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregato
  rs
• Wikis http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Social Bookmarks http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci
  al_bookmarking
• Online Rubric Construction
• Online Graphing Tools
• Online Digital Photo Tools

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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
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All Things Multimedia

• Research on Multimedia in Education

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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 dont think so)
• DVD Burners and Authoring Tools

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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..
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All Things Multimedia

• Video Curriculum/Enhancements
• www.unitedstreaming.com
• www.vbrick.com
• Multi-Functional Camera Systems
• http//www.casio.com/products/Projectors/Multi-Fun
  ctional_Camera_System/

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Podcasting and Vodcasting

• The Read/Write Web Goes Multimedia

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Podcasting and Vodcasting In The Classroom

• http//www.apple.com/education/solutions/podcastin
  g/
• http//www.apple.com/education/resources/podcastin
  gvideos/?cidCDM2589A-1 (video series on
  Podcasting in the Classroom)
• http//www.darcynorman.net/2004/10/30/podcasting-f
  or-education
• Educators Give iPod High Marks

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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/

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All Things Wireless

• Cutting The (Cat5) Cord

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All Things Wireless

• http//www.microsoft.com/uk/education/tech-solutio
  ns/wireless/
• http//www.mobileaccess.com/solution_education.cfm
  
• http//www.peakgroup.net/wte.html
• http//www.buildings.com/Articles/detail.asp?artic
  leid1466

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All Things Wireless

• http//www.technewsworld.com/story/46131.html
• http//www.technewsworld.com/story/40471.html
• http//www.projectorpeople.com/projectors/search-f
  eatures-results.asp
• http//www.projectorpeople.com/screens/wijet.asp
• http//www.earthwalk.com/Products/index.html

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Interactive Online Presence

• Beefing Up The School Website

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Interactive Online Presence

• http//www.chalksite.com/
• http//moodle.org/
• http//online.esc2.net
• http//www.schoolcenter.com/
• http//www.schoolcruiser.com/welcome.html

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Whiteboards

• The 21st Century Chalkboard

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Whiteboards

• http//education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/
• http//i.cmpnet.com/techlearning/whitepapers/white
  board_cs0406.pdf

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Mass Storage

• A Big House For Big Files
• OR
• Protecting Your Data From Loss Due to Hardware
  Failure

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A Big House

• http//www.mountainplains.org/articles/2003/pedago
  gy/Network20Attached20Storage (serious article)
• http//www.gateway.com/work/products/cp_stg_catalo
  g.shtml?clvLNav

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Making The Move To Open Source?
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Open Source Links

• http//www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,45862,00.h
  tml
• http//www.gnu.org/
• http//www.freeos.com/
• http//k12linux.org/contents.html
• http//www.k12ltsp.org/
• http//k12os.org/
• http//www.openoffice.org/

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Manage and Control Technology

• How To Be The Benevolent Dictator Of You Computer
  Domain
• (lab)

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What Are Your Students Looking At?

• http//www.genevalogic.com/index.php?id532
• http//www.lanschooldirect.com/

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Thin Client Computing

• Dumb Terminals May Not Be So Dumb After All

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Getting Thin

• http//www.ncte.ie/ICTAdviceSupport/AdviceSheets/T
  hinClientNetworks/
• http//www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/Downl
  oadableAssets/30825A_ThinClientSchool.pdf
• http//ferl.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?page13resID
  1567
• http//www.emboot.com/products_simplyRDP.htm
• http//www.national.com/cgi-bin/DiagramTemplate?Di
  agramNameThinClient