Hot Tech Trends

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Hot Tech Trends
Hot Technology Trends for K12 Schools
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Agenda

• Introductions
• What are Hot Technologies?
• 5 Areas of Research
• Panel Discussion

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Emerging Technologies Committee

• To accelerate and facilitate the use of emerging
  technologies in K-12 education.
• Identify
• Educate
• Share
• Join the ETC!

www.cosn.org/emerging_technologies
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Karen Greenwood Henke

• Karen Greenwood HenkeNimble Press
• Writing, editing, project leadership
• Chair of CoSN ETC
• Project Manager for Hot Tech Report

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Darrell Walery

• Director of Technology, Consolidated High School
  District 230, Illinois
• ETC Project Manager for Wireless Report, research
  leader for Hot Tech
• Student enrollment 8,500
• 3 high schools outside of Chicago

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Edee Norman Wiziecki

• Coordinator of Education Programs, National
  Center for Supercomputing Applications,
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Former middle school teacher and science
  curriculum director in Champaign IL for district
  of 10,000 students.
• The NCSA Education team develops and implements
  authentic tools and technologies from Research
  to Learning

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Virginia Jewell

• Coordinator of Educational Technology, Clarke
  County School District, GA
• Student enrollment 11,580
• Urban Title 1 district

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Tomorrows Technologies Will Be

• Convenient
• Capable
• Customized and feature rich

• Convergent
• Collaborative
• Creative
• Compliant

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Which Hot Tech Matters?

• Addresses major challenges
• Transformative, a fundamental change
• Feasibleis it cost effective or cost
  prohibitive?
• Emerging technology

Source 3M Corp. cms.3m.com/cms/ES/es/1-2/izrFiFU
/view.jhtml
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Hot Tech Report Research Areas

• Galvanize Instruction
• Improve Assessment and Evaluation
• Build Community
• Improve School Administration
• Address Diverse Learning Styles

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Galvanize Instruction

• Technologies that galvanize the instructional
  process and promote authentic learning
  activities.

• How are digital recording devices changing
  instruction in Clark County School District? GJ
• What are some of the new and emerging tools that
  are promoting authentic instruction and exciting
  teachers in schools working with the NCSA? EW

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NCSA Data Bridge

• Software utility that translates raw datasets
  into several common visualization file formats
• Performs simple scatter-to-uniform conversions to
  aid NCSA Easyviz in visualizing a larger range of
  datasets.

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NCSA Easyviz

• Software that facilitates the display of uniform
  visualization data sets.
• Features one of the most user-friendly interfaces
  among various visualization software packages.
• Developed by students at NCSA.

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NCSA-Moodle

• Course management system that provides an online
  environment for educators
• Custom modules developed at NCSA are created for
  users to provide them with useful tools for
  learning

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PIGS in the Classroom
The Personal Interface to the Access Grid (PIG)
is an ensemble of resources including multimedia
large-format displays, presentation and
interactive environments, and interfaces to Grid
middleware and to visualization environments
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Improve Assessment and Evaluation

• Technologies that facilitate data analysis and
  dissemination to students, teachers, parents,
  administrators and stakeholders.

• How is data mining and visualization going to
  change the way the educators use and understand
  assessment data? EW

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Education 2 Knowledge
Runs on top of NCSA's D2K to aid teachers and
administrators in analyzing test data and
learning more about their students and exam
questions E2K leverages pre-existing technologies
(including current and future D2K visualization
and data import modules) Create colorful charts
to help increase the understanding of your
assessment practices
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Build Community

• Technologies that provide individualized,
  on-demand information to improve interaction

• How are online grading systems used to build
  community at Consolidated High School District
  230?
• How did Clark County School District redesign
  your Web site to improve community engagement?
• What is the Cyberinfrastructure and what does it
  mean to school districts? EW

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Improve Efficiency

• Technologies that improve the efficiency of
  school administration.

• What is RFID Technology and how is it being used
  in schools? DW
• How has staff RFID cards improved operations at
  Clark County School District? GJ
• What is the future of smart cards in educational
  settings? EW

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Smart Classrooms

• Smart RoomSmart Rooms act like invisible
  butlers. They have cameras, microphones, and
  other sensors, and use these inputs to try to
  interpret what people are doing in order to help
  them
• Smart TagsSmart Tags explore the capabilities
  of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
  technology for identifying and tracking people
  and objects in a content of a Smart Space
  Environment

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Diverse Learning Styles

• Technologies developed for students with
  particular needs and have been adapted more
  broadly.

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Hot Tech Report Recommendations

• Technologies will engage, empower, and motivate
  students and teachers
• Think before banning
• Consider educational goals first
• Consider all the factors instructional, legal,
  security, privacy, technical, and financial
• Involve all the stakeholders

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How to Purchase the Report

• Executive Summary online
• Purchase report
• 19.95 members
• 24.95 non-members
• Look for future reports
• Digital Classroom

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Join the ETC!

• henke_at_nimble-press.com