1. The Classroom Presenter Project Richard Anderson University of Washington

2. Tablet PCs in the Classroom Instructor Presentation Student Note Taking Classroom Interaction Student engagement Feedback to the instructor Student contribution to discussion

3. Instructor Presentation

4. Student Applications

5. Classroom Interaction

6. Classroom Presenter Distributed, Tablet PC Application Initial development, 2001-2002 at MSR Continuing development at UW Collaboration with Microsoft Built on ConferenceXP Multicast networking Simple application Ink Overlay on images Export PPT to image Real time ink broadcast UI Designed for use during presentation on tablet Presentation features Instructor notes on slides Slide minimization

7. Classroom Pedagogy Active learning Classroom assessment Discussion around student artifacts Learner centric design

8. Classroom Networks Students communicating with instructor device Public display for aggregate results Low-bandwidth devices – e.g. clickers Peer instruction

9. Classroom Networks with Digital Ink Activities on lecture slides Student submit slides to instructor Instructor reviews slides to gauge understanding Slides selected to be shown on public display

10. What is special about Ink? Derivational activities as opposed to selection Unanticipated solutions, misconceptions Flexibility of domains Symbolic domains Diagrams Annotation of existing content Partial results, brainstorming, scratch work Expression of individuality

11. What is special about Digital ink? Logistics Capture and replay Integration with lecture materials Anonymous

12. Classroom Presenter Project Fall 2001, DISC Project, Microsoft Research Spring 2002, UW PMP Class Fall 2002, Presentation Application, UW Summer 2003, Major software development Fall 2003, Classroom Interaction Pilot, USD 2004, Studies of Ink in Presentation Winter, Spring 2005, Classroom Interaction Pilots, UW Summer 2005, Development begins on CP 3.0

13. Classroom Deployments University of Washington courses Computer Science Undergraduate courses Usually 15 to 20 tablet pcs Wireless environment Instructor supplied tablets Software Engineering Digital Design Data Structures Tablet PC Project Course CS Education Seminar Fourth grade math

14. Digital Design / Data structures

15. Fitt’s law / Geometry

16. Software Engineering Elementary school math

17. Preliminary Results Positive Student Responses Digital Design Survey (1-5 scale) Impact on learning 4.4 Value of seeing solutions displayed 4.3 Recommend to other instructors 4.1 High rate of student participation

18. Range of instructional use Student problem solving Interactive lecture

19. Classroom deployments Use of shared tablets 2-3 tablets per students Promote student discussion and group work

20. Impact on instruction Classroom experience is different Less material is covered Radical change in lecture preparation Learning goals first! Developing pedagogy and resources for this style of teaching will take time Mix technology supported instruction with conventional lecture

21. Use of student submissions and student behavior

22. Student examples for discussion

23. Partial results

24. Post lecture analysis

25. Tagging

26. Doodling

27. 4 th Grade

30. CLASSROOM PRESENTER www.cs.washington.edu/education/dl/presenter For more information, contact Richard Anderson anderson@cs.washington.edu