Imagine the Future

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Imagine the Future
Advanced Network Services Moanalua High School
University of Hawaii An Internet 2 Initiative
Project
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Out of the box . . . And on the edge . . .

• Internet 2
• Virtual Reality
• 3-D Graphics and Animations
• Videoconferencing
• Simulations
• 6. Art, music, drama, astronomy, medicine, and
  more

As far as your mind can see
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http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/universe/
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Online events global virtual
cyberhappenings
http//www.academy.rpi.edu/projects/technophobe/
http//www.nws.org/
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Video-Conference with Dr. Amela Sadagic, Project
Manager Advanced Network Services Dr. Sadagic is
joining us from NY -- 5 hours ahead of HST

• Criteria for Selection of Project Schools
• Issues of Tech vs Vision
• Lessons Learned So Far
• Experiences with VC Tools
• Q A

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Dr. Amela Sadagic Mar 8, 2002
Advanced Network Services
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Goal

• enable an active role of K-12 in exploring and
  designing new learning spaces that are empowered
  by advanced digital technologies and networking
• identify critical conditions, especially
  technological environments and strategic
  relationships, needed to nurture such processes

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Key formula

• kids in the center or the process they are the
  owners of all phases of that process
• teachers with a role of facilitators not
  instructors
• create safe heaven for teachers provide them
  time and space to learn along with students, not
  to be expected to be technology experts
• technology a tool, not the goal

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Project activities

• expert presentations given by leading scientists
  and visionaries,
• field trips visits to universities and
  corporations,
• series of student off-line discussion forums,
• school work sessions,
• videoconferencing sessions,
• active dialog with researchers from Internet2
  community,
• project work in individual student teams,
• project presentations and participation at the
  conferences (CoSN, NECC, Internet2, TQLive)

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Lessons learned so far

• two phases needed a warm up phase and an
  implementation phase
• provide resources with appropriate level video
  clips, images, special project oriented glossary,
  articles
• organize large joint sessions, but also
  facilitate smaller sessions and collaboration
  (on-line and off-line)
• listen and recognize specific needs of each
  school
• great lessons on incorporating videoconferencing
  tools to organize creative activities

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Nice surprises ?

• teachers and students organized 14 hours
  overnight marathon with activities dedicated to
  the project
• schools contribute in events organized by other
  schools
• students took over video-conferencing tools and
  chat sessions
• students designed handouts for project

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Q A
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Your mission

• Access from home
• Time commitment
• Intellectual commitment
• Collaborative commitment

Possible elective credit Selection of participants
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organizing gifted people in ways that allow
them both to achieve great things and to
experience the joy and personal transformation
that such accomplishment brings. Warren Bennis,
Organizing Genius
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The Collaboration Factor Videoconferencing with
remote sites Meeting and working across grade
levels at MOHS
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The aim of our project isto create conditions,
especially technological environments and
strategic relationships, that will nurture the
ability of students and educators to explore how
advanced technologies and networking can be used
in education. ThinkQuest
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Students working in small teams will be imagining
and prototyping their own vision of future
learning systems and applications, giving ideas
on how they would teach subjects of their choice
or new skills that help learning processes.
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Our teams discoverbeyond the tech . . . the
laughter and joy that results when people who
respect and trust each other, venture beyond safe
educational reports and projects into this
uncharted realm that is ThinkQuest . . . Lynne
Sueoka, Internet Challenge 97