Transcript PowerPoint Presentation - TEP 231: New Technologies for

Research, Development, &
Prediction of Technology
Happy Bastille Day!
But first…
• File links vs. relative links (for both
hyperlinks and for images)
• For the prompter folks, field names have to
match EXACTLY the names in the
Javascript (copy & paste is good)
With technology,
change is the only constant
• Moore’s Law: the number of transistors that
can fit on a chip doubles every 18 months
• Exponential changes: cost of a given
computation drops in half every 18 months
Need to predict change
How to predict the future?
• Extrapolation
– The “same” extrapolation: the future will be
like the past
– Linear extrapolation: the change from last year
to this will occur again between this year and
next
– More complex
The “pipeline” of development
Riding the “trailing edge”
• Technology in education organizations
• Technology in education conferences
• Technology in education journals
Organizations
• CUE: Computer Using Educators
• ISTE: International Society for Technology
in Education
• AACE: Association for the Advancement of
Computing in Education
• AERA: American Education Research
Association
Conferences
• CUE Conferences
• NECC
• Ed-Media
Journals
• Practitioner
– Learning & Leading with Technology
– T.H.E. Journal
• Research
– Journal of Educational Computing Research
– Journal of Research on Computing in Education
• See list at
http://LRS.ED.UIUC.EDU/tse-portal/publication/dans-journals.html
“Vision” scenerios
• The MBARI scenerio
• Your vision: a day in the life of a learner in
2020
Before next class
• read “Learning Spaces in the Networld of
Tomorrow: Future Learning Spaces: A VIP
Experience at MBARI”
http://gsep.pepperdine.edu/~mriel/office/webtour2/2/index.html
• develop a brief "vision" of how education
could/should operate in the year 2020 and post
it in TAPPED IN
Before (cont.)
• Read the Levin & Miyake paper
• Look through the Memorable
Troubleshooting stories at
http://cternt1.ed.uiuc.edu/troublestories/
and submit at least one memorable
troubleshooting story of your own.
The importance of stories in
education
• Fables, fairy tales, parables, epic poems,
legends, etc.
• Studies at Xerox PARC by Julian Orr and
others: Xerox technician “war stories”
Functions of stories
• Conveyers of obscure but important
information
• A “way in” to becoming a member of a
community
• A way to establish expertise/status in the
community
Memorable story framework
• http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/j-levin/memorable-story.html
• CTER memorable stories:
http://cternt1.ed.uiuc.edu/cterstories/
• Troubleshooting memorable stories:
http://cternt1.ed.uiuc.edu/troublestories
Next class meeting
• Tuesday, same time, same place
Break time!
• Tuesday snacks: Kenia & Becky
• Thanks to Jill & Barbara for today’s snacks