New Technologies inthe classroom

[MattCowen]

OK bit of help please.

 

I have to put together a presentation around using new technologies and emerging technologies in the classroom. I have a few ideas but was hoping to pick the brains of our multi talented community.

 

So I open the floor for ideas.

[Jamo]

Augmented Reality

[ricki]

The classroom voting systems

[MattCowen]

We have a number of the Activote systems, maybe I need to suggest ways in which they can be utilised as they tend to spend the majority of time in my office.

[neon]

Voting systems, PDA's (mobile computing), cameras, Tablets, Visualizers, Mulitple input whiteboards, Video recorders such as busbi?

[Jamo]

Flip cams

[plexer]

Spell checkers?

 

Sorry.

 

Ben

[tmcd35]

Spell checkers?

 

Hardly a new or emerging technology! Just nobody can ever be bothered to use 'em (well I can't ).

[plexer]

It was related to the thread title, nothing else.

 

Ben

[CallMeFred]

Wikis - Podcasts - Social networking

 

...and make sure mention Web 2.0 to up your buzzword quota.

[ninjabeaver]

Check Russell Prue out. An ICT Evangalist in Education and I've met him on a couple of occasions. IF you can see him, do it. Amazing presenter.

 

Anderton Tiger Group of Companies - Conference Speaking &  Live School Radio is his website. He's also on Twitter.

 

Russell Prue - ICT Evangelist Anderton Tiger - Inspirational & Motivational Presentations about Learning & Teaching in C21st for a direct link on more about him.

 

His ideas helped me push my schools ICT boundaries further when I saw him the beginning of this year, and I'm seeing him again Friday during a drop in session.

[dhicks]

So I open the floor for ideas.

 

Projected displays on surfaces other than whiteboards - desktops, the floor, whatever. Control could be by pen-based input such as eBeam / Mimio, or by mouse. I have still yet to see a proper, collaberative exercise that makes interesting use of a large front-of-classroom display - something where an individual's work contributes to an combined peice of work or display of data of some kind on the big screen, rather than the large display being used simply to show people's individual work.

 

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David Hicks

[bossman]

@ninjabeaver:

 

Is this the guy who hails from the Holy Island school for girls, who's outward thinking has no boundries for the students and advocates freedom of the internet no matter which sites, by any chance?

[webman]

He uses C21st instead of saying 21st Century. How cool and hip.

[CHR1S]

The integration of portable computing (Phones, Hand held games consoles etc) into T&L, it was banged on about before but im not sure of its uses.

[webman]

Maybe phones etc are good, but kids just can't be trusted to use them responsibly for the intended purposes.

[CAM]

Web-based quiz to encourage the pupils to research some tricky questions. Our LEA have set one up for Christmas and it encourages a lot of kids (and staff!) to think hard and get looking for the answers if they don't know them.

 

Could do it on a smaller scale with the ActiVote systems for a class. Get them to think up a quiz show format and run it during a lesson.

[Face-Man]

The question may be will we need classrooms once the technology is available for any time anywhere learning. Australia has had classes taught by radio to remote locations for ages. So while I think that teachers will always been needed to enhance students learning I suspect at secondary level the theory of crowding loads of kids together for social control is unnecessary for learning. (ok maybe I taken blue skys a little far)

 

As for the near future

 

Microsoft project Netal - gesture based interface [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Natal]Project Natal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

eye tracking for sen students - Tobii Technology | eye tracking and eye control | usability testing, market research and scientific research | AAC communication solutions

ipod touch with a camera -it has to come..come on apple

itablet - see above http://mashable.com/2009/07/27/apple-itablet/

3d displays - Real 3D display // Home // Holografika.com

4g wireless networks -

[Face-Man]

and there are things like

 

Holograms You Can Feel | Singularity Hub

 

and

 

Layar