Using Handheld Computers in the Computer Science Curriculum

计算机科学（31）这个项目结合了手持计算机新技术来加强学生的学习和合作。这种结合增强了学生在课堂和实验室环境内外的学习能力，更好地与其他学生合作，更容易有效地与教师沟通。该项目是在广泛规划和研究如何将新的手持计算机技术与由于低成本设备的可移植性而成为可能的新的编程语言和教学战略结合起来之后执行的。该项目原型工具，以提高学习环境和利用技术在整个计算机科学课程。学生和教师配备手持计算设备，用于增强计算机组织和汇编语言编程课程，作为在其他计算机科学课程中使用的概念验证。学生的进步是通过调查、访谈和对材料的掌握程度来评估的。该项目的成果包括一系列研究和信息，以支持使用手持计算设备增强学习；一套具体的教育工具和课程，以在计算机科学课程的背景下利用这些设备；以及在计算机组织课程中实施的具体示例。研究结果正通过一系列文件以及国家和区域会议的报告加以传播。这些工具、课程和实验练习都可以在互联网上获得。如果项目成功地在一门课程中实施，将制定一项计划，在其他院校的计算机科学课程中实施手持计算设备的使用。

Computer Science (31)This project combines efforts to enhance student learning and collaboration with the new technology of handheld computers. This combination enhances the student's ability to learn both inside and outside of the classroom and laboratory environments, to better collaborate with other students, and to more easily and effectively communicate with the instructor. The project is being implemented after extensive planning and research into ways to combine the new handheld computer technologies with new programming languages and pedagogical strategies made possible by the portability of the low cost equipment. The project prototypes tools to enhance the learning environment and to leverage technology across the computer science curriculum. Students and faculty are equipped with handheld computing devices used to enhance the computer organization and assembly language programming course as a proof-of-concept for use in other computer science courses. Student progress is being assessed by surveys, interviews, and mastery of the material. Outcomes from the project include a body of research and information to support learning enhancement using handheld computing devices, a set of concrete educational tools and lessons to leverage the use of these devices in the context of computer science curriculum, and a specific example of implementation in the computer organization course. The results are being disseminated through a series of papers and national and regional conference presentations. The tools, lessons, and lab exercises are being made available over the internet. If the projects succeeds with the successful implementation in a single course, a plan will be developed for implementation of the use of handheld computing devices across the other courses in the computer science curriculum to be tested at other institutions.