Research, Development, & Evaluation of Technology
But first... Chip Bruce’s responses to some of your questions about the Bruce-Levin taxonomyChip Bruce’s responses Barbara Miller’s transparencies
With technology, change is the only constant Moore’s Law: the number of transistors that can fit on a chip doubles every 18 months Exponential changes: cost of a given computation drops in half every 18 months
Need to predict change
How to predict the future? Extrapolation –The “same” extrapolation: the future will be like the past –Linear extrapolation: the change from last year to this will occur again between this year and next –More complex
The “pipeline” of development
Riding the “trailing edge” Technology in education organizations Technology in education conferences Technology in education journals
Organizations CUE: Computer Using Educators ISTE: International Society for Technology in EducationISTE: International Society for Technology in Education AACE: Association for the Advancement of Computing in EducationAACE: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education AERA: American Education Research AssociationAERA: American Education Research Association
Conferences NECC Ed-Media CUE Conferences
Journals Practitioner –Learning & Leading with Technology –T.H.E. Journal Research –Journal of Educational Computing Research –Journal of Research on Computing in Education See list at list at
“Vision” scenerios The MBARI scenerio Your vision: a day in the life of a learner in 2020
Before next class read “Learning Spaces in the Networld of Tomorrow: Future Learning Spaces: A VIP Experience at MBARI” write up a brief "vision" of how education could/should operate in the year 2020 (as a web file) and submit the URL to TEbaseTEbase
Next class meeting Wednesday, same time, same place Office hour:4-5pm Wednesday
During lab time Respond to at least two progress reports by class members that don't already have two responses, giving constructive criticism.
Break time! Meet back here in 15 minutes: