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<font face="Calibri">Hi Rob, the Tablet Pc's I spoke about ARE laptops
- which allow you to write directly onto the screen, so you could do
things like provide a diagram of a food web but without the arrows, and
then get kids to draw the arrows in with their tablet stylus on their
own laptop, and explain their reasoning, while others watch on the
digital projector. The amazing thing about using an interactive session
like this was that students would not have to get out of their seats
and go to the front of the room, so those students who are shy or less
confident would suddenly be happy to contribute. In the video I saw the
whole class had their own Tablet PC/laptop and the teacher could switch
between students' or his own laptop screens to display on the
projector, or show a number of screens all at the same time (I think
about 6) for comparison of different student's work. Also the teacher
was not anchored to the front of the room, but was down amongst the
action with the kids, helping them and discussing their work with them.
He could switch screens b y remote control. Amazing technology which is
sure to be mainstream eventually. <br>
<br>
I really believe that given another couple of years most kids will
bypass the school network and be bringing their own netbook and mobile
broadband internet connection - in fact I already have two students who
do this. The only thing they cannot do from their own laptop is print,
but if they have to print they just save to a USB and log onto the a
computer on the school system. Netbooks will soon have interactive
screens also, the touch screen is becoming the standard in the mobile
phone area, and is bound to eventually become standard for laptops very
soon.<br>
<br>
Stuff what dreams are made of!!!!<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Ros<br>
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Costello, Rob R wrote:
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<pre wrap="">agreed...electronic versions of talk and chalk can be better than the analogue version - (although no gaurantees)
but not as empowering as giving kids control which i think is the main attraction of ICT in most cases (allowing more options and choices - thus more personalisation - as well as more creative options for modelling and simulation)
but personally, i'm luke warm about the tactile aspect of the IWB ...can't see compelling reasons yet for it in secondary maths and science
but i'd love a projector in every room and kids with interactive tablets or, even better, laptops
i have no problem with kids running part of the lesson but its no big deal in my eyes whether they come up and touch the screen or use the mouse / keyboard - why should there be any difference? apart from the inital novelty i don't see whats so compelling about touching the screen?
haven't used the bluetooth tablets much and while its probably good still seems a cut below giving kids full ict access
in my view, improving the ratio and access for kids to technology, so pen and paper is not necessarily the default for them (when its not for us anymore) will enable a whole lot of things - ict no longer the addon - teachers and students can in the same medium
i've been working all day - on plane and train - and haven't touched a pen once - kids would go there as well if we let them - and then things can change - won't be anchored to a whole lot of old practice
might not be all good - and the cynics probably have a good set of concerns - but its where the rest of (western) world has already gone - ie workplace etc - and we're hamstringing the ict revolution while its still such a part time proposition (its like the era when people had to walk in front of the first automobiles - which i've heard Julia atkins describe, in other context)
cheers, my 2c
rob
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Sent: Tue 3/10/2009 6:44 PM
To: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Yr7-10it] Missed the boat? (Was: the IWB revolution continues)
I saw a video recently in which one of the leading schools in terms of ICT in England refused whiteboards, claiming their use still revolved around the teacher as the "deliverer" of knowledge and the student and the "recipient" of that knowledge. Instead they opted for something which I used at Lauriston a few years ago - tablet PCs for all students, which could wirelessly hook up to the digital projectors in every room. This way each students PC desktop could be shown on the screen, and each student could contribute to the lesson. The overall cost was apparently cheaper than electronic whiteboards in every room.
I used this system at Lauriston, where the EWB was unused and simply became the projector screen! Although we did need to share the cable around the class to plug students into the projector (this predated bluetooth technologies in the digital projectors) I have never been enthused about EWBs since, believing that a Tablet PC and a digital projector can do anything and more than an EWB.
I have just spent almost an hour searching for the video, need to go now but will get the link back to y'all soon
Cheers
Ros Meadows
Bentleigh SC
Fawcett - Le Rossignol, Jamie E wrote:
Hi all,
Maybe I'm missing the point, but I can not see how IWB really improve
student learning. How does it improve over a projector and a laptop?
Both allow the quick display of information, and the incorporation of
video.
I can see a benefit for the one or two students (tactial learners)
interacting with the IWB, but it's the same experience for all the
others students.
Does anyone have any examples of excellent learning using these devices?
I've talked with experienced teachers about computers in the classroom,
and his opinon was the is does not improve the learning of the student.
I realise that it changes the learning experience, and enables
difference learning styles to access the knowledge. For example, a
speel checker does the thinking for you, and you no longer need to
remember how to spell various word, and you loose the advantage of
language.
Thoughts from secondry perspective,
Jamie Le Rossignol
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