Future Classroom: a Research Issue or an Innovation?

1. Future Classroom: a Research Issue or an Innovation? Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology, National Central University, Taiwan Hsue-Yie Wang, Sams

2. Research & Innovation • Research is the transformation of money into knowledge • Innovation is the transformation of knowledge into money ~ Geoff Nicholson, Inventor of the Post-It Note

3. Outline • The evolution of technology in the classroom • Future Classroom research & development • Future Classroom in the near future • Conclusion

4. Outline • The evolution of technology in the classroom • Future Classroom research & development • Future Classroom in the near future • Conclusion

5. Classroom changes

6. Classroom changes

7. Classroom changes

8. Classroom changes

9. Classroom changes

10. Classroom technology evolution timeline overhead projector 1900 1700 1800 2000 computer filmstrip projector radio Interactive whiteboard chalkboard educational television

11. How long does the FUTURE mean?

12. Outline • The evolution of technology in the classroom • Future Classroom research & development • Future Classroom in the near future • Conclusion

13. ACOT • Apple Classrooms Of Tomorrow • initiated in 1985 and sustained through 1995 • to study how the routine use of technology by teachers and students might change teaching and learning • to identify effective models for teaching and learning with technology, developing the professional lives of teachers, and diffusing innovation

14. OLPC • 2005.1: Professor Nicholas Negroponte from MIT announced OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) projectin the World Economic Forum

15. Introductory Introductory Group discussion & Group discussion & 1 2 1 2 discussion discussion information gathering information gathering Access Point G1 G1 G1 G1 G4 G4 G4 G4 G3 G3 G3 G3 3 Co - constructing 3 Co - constructing G2 G2 G2 G2 Interactive Instruction Center group product group product Discussion and Conclusion and Group Group 6 6 conclusion conclusion Group Group Interactive Classroom Server Interactive Learning Center 5 Peer evaluations 4 Presentations 5 Peer evaluations 4 Presentations among groups among groups Resource & Class Management Server Future classroom research from NCU • 2002.5: NCU research team announced one-to-one educational computing and the experimental results Interactive Classroom Server Synchronous Activity Control Block Daemon Block Broadcast Control Module Interactive Instruction Center Daemon Response Control Module Message Delivery Module Highly Interactive Protocols Protocol Parsing Module Interactive Learning Center Connection Management Block Authentication Module Connection Management Module

16. video presentation e-book report WWW group teacher group discussion individual student voting Learning Flow Learning Episode 1 Learning Episode 2 Learning Episode #n … Learning Function a Learning Function b Learning Function c Learning Function d Learning Function x … content participant action

17. Label of learning flow Label of learning episode A learning episode composed by a set of learning functions A learning flow consists a sequence of learning episodes Learning functions Learning flow editing tool

18. Pedagogical model of NCU’s future classroom research

19. System log analysis • the logs show that the time teacher used in interaction is more than lecturing • the results indicate that this system enables students working in groups and learning from doing

20. Statistical result of the questionnaire

21. Outline • The evolution of technology in the classroom • Future Classroom research & development • Future Classroom in the near future • Conclusion

22. Market status of IWB

23. Learning devices

24. Market status of IRS Futuresource Consulting, 2008

25. One of the models for the near future classroom

26. e-Teaching

27. e-Assessing Instant evaluationson students’ understanding

28. e-Diagnosing

29. e-Remediation

30. Outline • The evolution of technology in the classroom • Future Classroom research & development • Future Classroom in the near future • Conclusion

31. Doing innovation • "In my view, the word innovation has become overused, cliched, and meaningless….. because they are so much easier to talk about than to do.“ ~ Andy Grove, former chairman of Intel Corp.

32. Conclusions • FUTURE CLASSROOM should not be a research issue only • Start up from a simple, implementable, but effective model

33. Thank you! Eee Learning – Engage, Enrich, Enhance Iii Teaching – Interact, Innovate, Improve hsuyie@CL.ncu.edu.tw