Educational Technologies from CMU

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Educational Technologies from CMU

• Ananda Gunawardena
• School of Computer Science
• Carnegie Mellon University

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Outline

• Learn a bit about tablet PCs
• Vendors, cost
• Hands on activities
• Tablet as a classroom presentation tool
• Journal, Classroom presenter
• Archiving the notes
• Reading Comprehension
• Adaptive Book
• Tablet Math
• Setup and activities
• Grants
• HP Technology for Teaching
• PA State Grants

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Todays Market New Slates
Motion Computing
LE 1600
LS 800
Sahara i213 12.1, 1.6GHz Centrino
NEC
VersaPro, 10.4, 1.1 GHz
Fujitsu 5000 10.4/12.1, Indoor/Outdoor 1.1 GHz ULV
Tatung TTAB 10.4, 1 GHz ULV
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Todays Market New Convertibles
Averatec C3500 AMD 2200 12.1, DVD
Toshiba
M200, 12.1 SXGA 2 GHz Pentium-M
Electrovaya 1.4 GHz Centrino 12.1,
Biometrics Scribbler SC-2200
Fujitsu
T4000
HP tc4200
IBM ThinkPad x41
ViewSonic
12.1, 1 GHz
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Todays Market New Hybrids Ruggeds
Hybrid
Ruggedized
Itronix 8.4, 933 MHz ULV
HP Compaq TC1100ULV Celeron or Pentium 10.4, 1.1
GHz
Walkabout Hammerhead 10.4, 4.5 lbs 933 MHz P-III
M
Xplore iX104
10.4 1.1 GHz ULV
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A Concept Tablet for Kids

• Low power
• (7W)
• 8.4 display
• Tethered pen
• Rugged

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Todays Market Forecasts

• Mobile Market Projections (IDC)

2004 Market share
2006 Market share
2008 Market share
Consumers, Mobile Professionals CY08 Market
2.5M, CAGR (04-08) 40
0
1
3
Ultra-Mobile 0 to 1 spindle, 5-8 screen, lbs.
Mobile Professionals, Information Workers CY08
Market 28.4M, CAGR (04-08) 51.4,
Ultra-Portable 1 or 2 spindle,10-12 screen, 2-4
lbs.
8
17
31
Information Workers, Consumers CY08 Market 51M,
CAGR (04-08) 22
Thin Light 2 spindle, 14-15 screen, 4-7 lbs.
63
63
56
Information Workers, Consumers CY08 Market 8.9M,
CAGR (04-08) -11
30
19
10
Transportable 2 3 spindle, 14-17 screen, 7-12
lbs.
Data source IDC
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Why Tablet PCs are Cool!!!

• Writing is better than typing when explaining
  ideas.
• Tablets are like Smart Paper
• Sketch your idea. See it come to life
• Tablets allow us to save our handwritten work for
  future access
• for us
• for students

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Tablet PC for instructor

• Windows Journal
• Convert any document to a journal document
• Annotate lot better than powerpoint and smart
  board
• Save annotated notes as a pdf
• Classroom Presenter
• Conduct an interactive classroom
• Receive students handwritten responses
• Critique in real time

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Tablet PC for Students

• Make learning fun
• Tablet Math Whiz System
• A web application where teachers can manage
  classroom
• Set up exercises, goal, math facts
• Automated grading of students handwritten work
• Look the scratch work of the students to see what
  they are not getting
• Reduces/eliminates grading time. Focus on
  teaching

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Tablet Math Whiz

• Smart client web server Model

Correct problems
Set up class
Incorrect problems
Assess student learning
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Measuring Reading Comprehension

• A smart program developed at CMU
• Works with any platform (tablets not necessary)
• All we need is digital content ported into
  Adaptive Book
• See Brochure

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Process

• Teacher creates a reading exercise
• Teacher creates
• an expert markup
• Load into the Markup analysis tool
• Student are assigned the reading exercise
• Students creates a markup of the content
• Markups are saved and submitted to the online
  markup analysis tool
• Students gets a grade and feedback
• Interactively improve the markup

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Benefits

• Finally there is a reading program to measure
  what students read
• System is engaging and interactive
• It is like a game how close can I get to my
  teachers thinking
• Marking up content is not random students
  really have to think about it
• No grading for the teacher students keep
  reading until they can get a satisfactory score

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Grants

• HP Technology for Teaching Grant
• Basic Grants
• Provide upto 5 Tablet PCs and other equipment
• Leadership Grants
• More equipment for students
• http//www.hp.com/hpinfo/grants/us/programs/tech_t
  eaching/k12_main.html

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Conclusion

• CMU is interested in doing pilot projects with
• School Districts
• After School Programs
• Cyber Schools
• Administrators/Teachers
• Goal is to reduce the workload for the teacher
  (grading etc) and increase the technology
  effectiveness
• Contact guna_at_cs.cmu.edu
• [phone]