Computers in Education

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Computers in Education

• Module 9

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What is the Perfect Classroom?

• Clean white wall in front of the room
• Show video clips
• Project an computer screen image
• Write with special pens
• Touch sensitive
• Printing abilities
• Networked to each Students PDA
• Voice recognition of teachers commands

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Young Children

• Education needs to be
• visually stimulating
• actively involved
• Education starts very early, age 1-2
• Programs to teach colors, ABC, even foreign
  languages stressing participatory learning

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Young Children

• Learn at their own pace
• Turn abstract into concrete
• money and stocks
• Slightly older children benefit from edutainment
• Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
• Benefit - learning is FUN

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Literacy Requirements for Education

• SOL of public education has a literacy
  requirement for technology that is different for
  each grade level
• Is there a computer literacy requirement at ODU?

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High School and College

• Intelligent tutoring programs
• adapts based upon student responses
• Computer based tutorials
• Immediate feedback
• Computer Simulation
• Frog dissection
• Simulation games
• For competitive learning

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WORKLINK

• Designed for high school students who plan to
  enter the workforce after high school
• Personal records
• transcripts
• ratings of work habits (punctuality, attendance,
  motivation)

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Additional Uses by Students

• Research
• Papers via Internet
• Application software
• Word processing, spreadsheet, presentations
• Storage of information
• Instrument of research
• E-mail
• On-line applications
• On-line homework help

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Distance Learning

• Teletechnet
• Virtual University
• Obtain degree at home or at sea
• Self-study formats
• No attendance required

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Administrative Uses

• Instructors
• Testing
• Maintain grades
• Develop lesson plans
• Create homework assignments
• Research

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Administrative Uses

• Schools
• Maintain student records
• Assign students to classes and rooms
• Pay employees

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Administrative Uses

• Research studies
• Track students to determine graduation rates, job
  offers
• Student performance and attitudes to improve the
  education process
• Provide information for accountability reporting

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Administrative Uses

• Marketing
• Web sites
• CD-ROM tours
• Virtual reality

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Uses by Parents

• Monitor students courses, professors, activities,
  etc.
• Email
• Save phone bills
• Research tool to pick a university
• See it without going there

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Education Outside of the Classroom

• Educational tools disguised as games
• SimCity
• Oceans Below
• Reference material presented in video
• Pictorial atlas
• Body works