Technology Integration with Palm-Sized Computers

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Technology Integration with Palm-Sized Computers

• Theresa Overall and Rhonda Christensen
• University of North Texas
• theresa_at_unt.edu
• February 12, 2003
• With thanks to
• Jennifer Smolka, Cathie Norris, and Elliot Soloway

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What is a handheld?Its a technology that...

• Fits in your hand
• Started as a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) but
  is now so much more
• Provides 11 computing
• Costs much less than other technologies
• Has unique educational functionalities
• Instantaneous (on/ off/ save)
• Portable
• Invisible
• Personal
• Private
• Versatile
• Fun

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• A handheld is not a stepchild to a PC
• and its not
• just a baby PC

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What runs them?Who makes them?

• Palm OS
• Palm (MANY models plus new Zire)
• Sony (Clié)
• Handspring (Visor)
• IBM (WorkPad)

• Windows CE
• Dell (Axim)
• Casio (Cassiopeia)
• Hewlett Packard (iPAQ and Jornada)
• Toshiba

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So, What Learning Impacts Are We Seeing In the
Classroom?
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Learning Impacts with Handhelds

• Write Rewrite

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Learning Impacts with Handhelds

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Learning Impacts with Handhelds

• Write Rewrite
• Revisit

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Learning Impacts with Handhelds

• Write Rewrite
• Revisit
• Immerse

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Learning Impacts with Handhelds

• Write Rewrite
• Revisit
• Immerse
• Collaborate

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Learning Impacts with Handhelds

• Write Rewrite
• Revisit
• Immerse
• Collaborate
• Learn in-context

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Learning Impacts with Handhelds

• Write Rewrite
• Revisit
• Immerse
• Collaborate
• Learn in-context

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Learning Impacts with Handhelds

• Write Rewrite
• Revisit
• Immerse
• Collaborate
• Learn in-context
• Succeed

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Handheld Terms

• Stylus
• Beam
• Synch
• Cradle
• Business Card

• Cards
• Peripherals
• Physical Buttons
• Tap Buttons
• Tapboard
• Graffiti

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HiCE Applications
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• What is it?
• Concept mapping tool

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• Features
• Create individual group maps
• Print maps directly from Palm
• Easily share and revise maps

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• Classroom Applications
• Brainstorming
• Visual outlining
• Organizing
• Assessment

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Lets do

• Make your family tree.

MOM
DAD
SON
DAUGHTER
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HiCE Applications
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• What is it?
• Animation and drawing tool

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• Features
• Create up to 999 frames
• Geometric and freehand shapes
• Easy to share, edit and revise

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• Classroom Applications
• Diagram cell structures
• Animate growth cycles
• Write and share stories

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Lets do

• Draw a face animate blinking eyes
• In small groups
• What can you use animation for?
• Make an animation to share with the group.

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HiCE Applications
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• What is it?
• Communicable disease simulation

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• Features
• Easy teacher tools to manage simulation
• Adjust immunity, initial carriers and incubation
  time
• Students can review list of all meetings
  between Palms

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• Classroom Applications
• HIV/AIDs
• Exponential growth
• Epidemiology

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Lets do

• Lets meet each otherbut be careful! There is a
  terrible virus that can be transmitted through
  casual contact.
• How many will survive??

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HiCE Applications
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• What is it?
• Store web content on Palm

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• Features
• Quickly download and share web materials for
  offline use
• Downloaded text is searchable
• Customized preferences (graphics and link depth)

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• Classroom Applications
• Online research available offline
• Create personal reference library
• Group research projects

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HiCE Applications
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• What is it?
• Tool for taking and annotating pictures

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• Features
• Works with Kodak PalmPix camera
• Easily create, edit and share scrapbooks
• Uploads for printing, website creation

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• Classroom Applications
• Virtual scrapbook of field trips CAMPING!
• Document lab experiments
• Record and review progress over time

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HiCE Applications
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• What is it?
• Timed fill-in-the-blank game for Palm

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• Features
• Students choose correct answer from multiple
  options
• Automatically records student progress
• Students and teachers will soon be able to create
  and share their own data sets

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• Classroom Applications
• Spanish vocabulary
• Math
• Decimals, fractions, inequalities
• Social Studies
• State capitals

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Lets do

• Burst some bubbles!

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HiCE Applications
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• What is it?
• Word processing tool

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• Features
• 109,000 word spell-checker
• Easily edit, share and revise
• Print directly from Palm

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• Classroom Applications
• Create text documents
• Peer editing
• Note taking journaling

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Lets do

• Analogies

dogpuppycatkitten
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dogpuppycatkitten dogcatpuppykitten
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dogcatpuppykitten
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dogxxxpuppykitten
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dogxxxpuppykitten
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dogxxxpuppycubdogbearpuppycubdoglionp
uppycubdogtigerpuppycub
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So lets evaluate

• Did you have fun?
• Were you actively engaged?

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How much of the fun was the novelty of the Palms
and how much was the intellectual engagement of
the activity?
So lets evaluate
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How could I as a teacher have engaged a student
that wasnt participating?
So lets evaluate
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What are the advantages to doing analogies this
way compared to a traditional worksheet?
So lets evaluate
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What are the disadvantages?
So lets evaluate
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What would have been good student objectives for
this activity?
So lets evaluate
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What learning differences could have been
accommodated by practicing analogies in this
manner?
So lets evaluate
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How can you assess your students work when its
done in this fashion?
So lets evaluate
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Whats happening in the classroom?
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FREE Handheld Apps from Hi-CE

• http//hi-ce.org/palm
• http//www.iste.org

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Classroom Activities