Project vs. project report - I want a separate project report
Importance of having NO spelling or grammar errors in educational web pages - proof-read, use spelling and grammar checkers, have others proof read - I will be looking for language errors on the project web site (but not on your project report site)
Also, add a paragraph at the end of your final report relating your results to a broader context, beyond your particular project.
Evaluation: crucial that you have an evaluative element of your project. If you don't have some other way:
get some people to go through your web site
sit quietly and take notes (don't volunteer help)
interview afterwards
What did you like most?
What did you like least?
What changes would you suggest?
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Computer Uses in Education: A look back and a look forward
Technology and the future of education
Implications for today
The importance of early action
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Technology and the future of education
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Main effects and side effects
main effects: intended consequences
side effects: unintended consequences
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Surfing to Serving
accessing vs. publishing
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Wired & Wireless
ubiquitous computing
wearable computing
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The importance of the general over the specific
rapid rate of change
short half-life of specific knowledge
need for general and metaknowledge
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Taxonomies & predictability
Bruce & Levin taxonomy
What are uses of technologies in the language arts?
Why few uses for analysis and construction?
Are there powerful uses waiting to be developed?
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The importance of multiplicity
Novices: one way of thinking about a domain
Experts: many ways of thinking about a domain
Conceptual toolkit: an expert has a toolkit of conceptualizations, knows which are good for which purposes, and knows when to choose one and when to switch to another
(Levin, Stuve & Jacobson paper)
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The importance of early action
Modeling
Modeling amplified by the net
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Milestones for the rest of the semester
Final report: December 16th (oral and written)
10 minutes
What's the most important and/or most interesting thing you learned from your project?
