High-tech Learning Environments for Low-tech Classrooms
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EdMedia + Innovate Learning, 1999 in Seattle, WA USA ISBN 978-1-880094-35-8
Abstract
As increasing numbers of classrooms throughout the United States and the world become Internet-ready, educational content providers must be aware of the particular technological issues faced in these classrooms. In many cases, the result of recent upgrades is a well-connected classroom full of low- to mid-range computers. However, many content providers appear to be proceeding under the assumption that with good connectivity comes good client-side technology. In our own work developing Internet-based learning environments, we have come face to face with this conundrum. For example, one urban middle school excitedly approached our project, not long after their Net Day celebration, to announce that they were fully wired, connected, and ready to use our curriculum. Unfortunately, when we arrived to consult them on implementing our approaches, we were greeted by a roomful of computers with insufficient memory to run the latest Internet browsers! In addition, increases in classroom Internet capacity have often been outstripped by even greater increases in Internet demands resulting from modern Web site design. Heavy use of graphics and Java within Web pages can render the Internet capacity of some classrooms obsolete before students even have a chance to go online. This presentation will address five important problems with the assumptions made by educational content providers: the problems of graphics, Java, data processing, bandwidth, and scalability. It will then review our own case history in the Web-based Integrated Science Environment (WISE) Project, reviewing our adopted solutions to these real problems. The presentation will evaluate the effectiveness of our solutions and how we revised them over the course of our first year of development.
Citation
Morrow, J. & Slotta, J.D. (1999). High-tech Learning Environments for Low-tech Classrooms. In B. Collis & R. Oliver (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 1999--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 1832-1833). Seattle, WA USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 6, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/7214.
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