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Nov 02, 2014
Touch Technology - Challenges and Opportunities
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Touch Technology - Challenges and Opportunities
Touch Technology - Challenges and Opportunities
Touch Technology - Challenges and Opportunities
A touch technology enables an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a
touch within the display area.
Touch Technology - Challenges and Opportunities
The touchscreen enables one to interact directly with what is displayed, rather than indirectly with a pointer
controlled by a mouse or touchpad.
Touch Technology - Challenges and Opportunities
Fairlight - 1985
Touch Technology - Challenges and Opportunities
Touch Technology - Challenges and Opportunities
So, we have all these amazing technologies already available or available
in the near future.
How should we use these technologies ?
Touch Technology - Challenges and Opportunities
Teachers will not be replaced by Technology,
but teachers who don’t use technology will be replaced by those
who do.Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
Touch Technology - Challenges and OpportunitiesTechnological Levels of Use
SAMRRuben R. Puentedura, Ph.D.
Touch Technology - Challenges and OpportunitiesTechnological Levels of Use
REDEFINITION
MODIFICATION
AUGMENTATION
SUBSTITUTION
Tech allows for the creation of new tasks,
previously inconceivable
Tech allows for significant task
redesign
Tech acts as direct tool substitute, with
functional improvement
Tech acts as direct tool substitute, with
no functional change
Cloud
Integrated with email, spreadsheets, graphic
packages etc
cut and paste, spellchecking
Word processor used like a typewriterS
AMR
Touch Technology - Challenges and OpportunitiesTechnological Levels of Use in Classroom
REDEFINITION
MODIFICATION
AUGMENTATION
SUBSTITUTION
Tech allows for the creation of new tasks,
previously inconceivable
Tech allows for significant task
redesign
Tech acts as direct tool substitute, with
functional improvement
Tech acts as direct tool substitute, with
no functional change
Tools for visualization of narrative and structural
aspects of text
Textual, visual, audio tools for construction of
shared knowledge
Study guides, history sites linked to online
text
Shakespeare texts read in online
versionsSAMR
Touch Technology - Challenges and OpportunitiesTechnological Levels of Use in Classroom
Apple’s way
Touch Technology - Challenges and OpportunitiesTechnological Levels of Use in Classroom
Touch Technology - Challenges and OpportunitiesTechnological Levels of Use in Classroom
The Skeptical
Touch Technology - Challenges and OpportunitiesTechnological Levels of Use in Classroom
Touch Technology - Challenges and OpportunitiesTechnological Levels of Use in Classroom
While iBooks are very affordable textbooks, the iPad makes for one insanely expensive backpack.
Touch Technology - Challenges and OpportunitiesTechnological Levels of Use in Classroom
If it's free for you is great! But even with a healthy discount, all those tablets carve a multi-million dollar, taxpayer-funded chunk out of the education budget
Touch Technology - Challenges and OpportunitiesTechnological Levels of Use in Classroom
Standalone? Try writing a 20-page term paper on an iPad.
Touch Technology - Challenges and OpportunitiesTechnological Levels of Use in Classroom
No matter how far Apple has pushed into the cloud, iPads still need laptops to complement them.
Touch Technology - Challenges and OpportunitiesTechnological Levels of Use in Classroom
It's important to remember that "new" and "different" always come at a premium. One that the vast majority of us can't afford.
DISCUSSION POINTS
Substitution VS ModificationStatus Quo GCC
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