Using Handheld Computers in the Computer Science Curriculum

计算机科学(31)这个项目将努力加强学生的学习和协作与手持计算机的新技术相结合。这种结合提高了学生在课堂内外和实验室环境中学习的能力，更好地与其他学生合作，并更容易、更有效地与教师沟通。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新的编程语言和教学战略结合起来之后实施的，因为低成本设备的便携性使其成为可能。该项目原型工具，以改善学习环境，并利用整个计算机科学课程的技术。学生和教职员工配备了手持计算设备，用于增强计算机组织和汇编语言编程课程，作为概念验证，用于其他计算机科学课程。学生的进步是通过调查、访谈和对材料的掌握来评估的。该项目的成果包括支持使用手持计算设备加强学习的大量研究和信息，一套在计算机科学课程中利用这些设备的具体教育工具和课程，以及在计算机组织课程中实施的一个具体例子。正在通过一系列文件以及国家和区域会议的专题介绍来传播这些成果。这些工具、课程和实验练习都可以通过互联网获得。如果这些项目成功地在一门课程中成功实施，将制定一项计划，以便在计算机科学课程的其他课程中使用手持计算设备，以便在其他机构进行测试。

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.