Research Development Evaluation of Technology But first Chip

Research, Development, & Evaluation of Technology

But first. . . • Chip Bruce’s responses to some of your questions about the Bruce-Levin taxonomy • Barbara Miller’s transparencies

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 • NECC • Ed-Media • CUE Conferences

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: //www. ed. uiuc. edu/courses/edpsy 490 i/sp 99/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: //www. iearn. org/webtour/2/intern. html • write up a brief "vision" of how education could/should operate in the year 2020 (as a web file) and submit the URL to TEbase

Next class meeting • Wednesday, same time, same place • Office hour: 4 -5 pm Wednesday

During lab time • Respond to at least two progress reports by class members that don't already have two responses, giving constructive criticism.

Break time! • Meet back here in 15 minutes: