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Computers in Education

Computers in Education. Week 8. 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 Student’s PDA. Young Children. Education needs to be

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Computers in Education

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  1. Computers in Education Week 8

  2. 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 Student’s PDA

  3. Young Children • Education needs to be • visually stimulating • actively involved • Education starts at a very early age - 1 year • Programs to teach colors, ABC, even foreign languages stressing participatory learning

  4. Young Children • Learn at their own pace • Turn abstract into concrete • money and stocks • Slightly older children benefit from edutainment • Benefit - learning is FUN

  5. 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?

  6. High School and Beyond • Intelligent tutoring programs • adapts based upon student responses • Computer based tutorial • Computer Simulation • Simulation games

  7. High School and College • Research • Web searching • Distance Learning • Two way - IRI at ODU • Teletechnet • Virtual University

  8. Administrative Uses • Instructors • testing • maintain grades • develop lesson plans • create homework assignments • research

  9. Administrative Uses • Schools • maintain student records • assign students to classes and rooms • pay employees

  10. 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

  11. Administrative Uses • Marketing • Web sites • CD-ROM tours • Virtual reality

  12. Additional Uses by Students • Application software • Storage of information • Instrument of research • E-mail • On-line applications • Homework help • Plagiarism???

  13. Uses by Parents • Monitor students courses, professors, activities, etc. • Email • Research tool to pick a university

  14. Education Outside of the Classroom • Educational tools disguised as games • SimCity • Oceans Below • Reference material presented in video • pictorial atlas • body works

  15. Advantages of Computers in Education • Accelerated learning due to tools and improved interest • High quality documents • Research facilitated • Improved monitoring of students • Remote education

  16. Disadvantages • Inability of schools to keep pace with technology • Instructor/student involvement diminished • Haves and Have nots • Maintenance of machines • Promotes laziness

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