- Multiple media dude & entrepreneur and contributor to NPR
- Title:Classroom for the Future Now
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I am
- Video game nut (young guy)
- Child of teachers
- Seowl Korea is the best place for tech - top down
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Founded urban video academy
- Get kids to create a video game to teach science and math
- Founded http://techtechboom.com
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Where are we today
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Are we giving students oportinitues to solve problems?
- Segway started with a problem
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The classrom of the future
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What is it?
- The classroom is everywhere!
- I think that the classroom might become a state-of-mind
- Webwill need tech savvy people
- Much data on growth of tech jobs
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Who's doing what
- Skype expanding the classroom
- Scratch for programming & content stuff
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GEOCashing
- Doesn't GPS come to mind when you take the kids outside
- School thout redundancy in bus routes had students carry GPS and tracked them
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Games
- Motion capture (gameing without cintrolers)
- SWITCHED is integrating curriculum
- People are experimenting
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Mobile
- Have you forwarded apps to your students?
- We need a national boradband policy
- Too much opportunity that we're ignoring
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What are the challenges
- #1 ppl resistant to change in twitpoll
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We need to be paying attention to techs and teachers.
- Isolation of teachers
- Do externships. Send teachers out to work in real world
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What about me. Practical ideas
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Create content on-demand
- You already have the content
- LiveScribe - writes and listens.
- MIT OpenContent
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Google Forms
- iGoogle for collecting information
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What's coming down the the road
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3D is going insane - it's coming.
- Company in Europe is working on 3d instructional
- Classrom of the future in Baltimore.
- Sign language to speech with a data glove.
- 80/20 Google - mimic that in schools
- Internet in the car