Understanding Classroom Interactions Among Diverse, Connected Classroom Technologies

与三个主要的公司合作伙伴，德州仪器，Palm和诺基亚一起，该项目正在调查配备交互式计算媒体的廉价手持设备网络对日常课堂教学的影响。这种大规模的课堂连接的影响是重要的理解，以告知迭代改进i）技术和课堂实践，支持学习和ii）教师发展和支持结构的设计。PI及其同事正在与普通8-12年级教室的教师合作，这些教室配备了学校标准的图形计算器和新设备，这些设备相互无线联网并与教师的工作站相连。三个方面的影响正在探索中：（1）评估：定期，原则性的诊断学生的反应精心设计的探测器和问题提交给教师进行分析和行动。(2)学习：新的学生活动结构，包括（a）师生和学生之间的挑战，以及（B）学生对共享和公开展示的结构的贡献。(3)教学：教师教室管理支持，用于分发和收集学生作业、查看和注释学生屏幕以及管理连接教室中的信息流。

Together with three major corporate partners, Texas Instruments, Palm, and Nokia, this project is investigating the impact on everyday classroom teaching and learning of a network of inexpensive hand-held devices equipped with interactive computational media. The effects of this massive classroom connectivity are important to understand in order to inform iterative improvement of i) technologies and classroom practices that support learning and ii) the design of teacher development and support structures. The PI and colleagues are working with teachers in ordinary grade 8-12 classrooms equipped with school-standard graphing calculators and newer devices wirelessly networked to each other and to a teacher's workstation. Three areas of impact are under exploration: (1) Assessment: regular, principled diagnoses of students' responses to carefully designed probes and problems submitted to the teacher for analysis and action. (2) Learning: new student activity structures involving (a) teacher-student and student-student challenges, and (b) student contributions to shared and publicly displayed constructs. (3) Teaching: teacher classroom management support for distributing and collecting student work, viewing and annotating student screens, and managing the flow of information in the connected classroom.