SC '95 Living Schoolbook The Living Schoolbook and the K-12 Classroom of the Future Kim Mills Northeast Parallel Architectures Center Syracuse University Supercomputing '95 December 3-8 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego CA Outline Project Overview Technologies and Infrastructure Teachers and Schools Living Schoolbook Products Kids and Learning Vision of the Living Schoolbook Project Education a National Challenge Application Common infrastructure for healthcare, environment, manufacturing, education Web technologies + HPCC + future NII EII Services Re-tooling US schools The Living Schoolbook Partners New York State funding (New York State Science & Technology Foundation) Teacher teams (3 Central New York, 3 New York City Schools) Technology developers (NPAC and InfoMall partners) Vendors (Silicon Graphics, Apple, NYNEX) Education researchers (Syracuse University) Content and Media partners (see list) Public access (Onondaga Co. Public Library) Network support (USAF Rome Laboratory) Content and Media Partners Reuters (world news) The Discovery Channel (educational video) CNN (Newsource) Newton's Apple (educational video) NewsBank Inc (newspaper, magazine archive) National Archives (video archive) State of New York (image, video archive) US Dept Education AskERIC (education consortium) Think Media Inc (film and video maker) local public library (historic photos, maps) local Public Televsion (local film makers) Status of Project High risk high gain project Halfway point in three year project State of art infrastructure in place 10 nationally known content/media partners EII Services running in project schools Adding ISDN delivery Public access Large scale integration, complex management, political, business, research, technology issues Realistic prototype NII to K-12 by 2000 Does Advanced Technology Belong in K-12 Education? Industry must build infrastructure entertainment "edutainment" multimedia training Who funds value added for education? exploiting digital video, database, Web, ATM enabling technologies bridging advanced technology to teachers developing education services, products, tools, environments Return on investment, smarter kids, stronger economy K-12 Education Infrastructure Plain Old Telephone Service supports static Web pages (text and images) Full motion video requires 1.5 megabits/second, 0.7 GB storage/hour ISDN still off by a factor of 10 quarter screen, 15 frames per second better compression technologies, but not standard "slow-drip" to education servers Are we waiting ATM deployment? New York State funded innovative ATM based project Key Role of Web Technologies Web an important information resource Integration framework Common envelope and consistent interface to evolving Web servers Database servers Video servers Compute servers Interactive Web technologies Builds on NII Continuous learning, reduced boundaries school, univ, industry, community Scaling the Living Schoolbook Level 1 ISDN to school computer lab small scale experiment single machine, single user, single window Level 10 ATM to computer lab moderate experiment 2-3 machines, multiple users, multiple windows Level 100 ATM to classroom fully configured classroom 10 machines, multiple users, tens of windows * network bandwidth, server architecture, disk space required The Content Issue Ownership and rights Access Infrastructure requirements Parnterships are essential Project created content Living Schoolbook archive 20 hours of video 500 images 5 GB text 100 fold expansion in spring '96 Schools and Teachers Project Schools Mix of urban, suburban, small city schools Diverse student population Kids at risk Middle through high school grades On-going Teacher Workshops Introduce project Web training Explore NII services Develop multimedia projects Curriculum Integration Hardware for teachers to create applications Classroom multimedia projects designed for existing curricula Products: EII Services NII must play central role in education digital video to classroom teacher telecollaboration parents, community linked to schools EII services are resources, tools, environments tailored by teachers and kids for classroom use kids produce as well as consume information adapted and re-used-- learner creates educational applications A Network Exploratorium Kids Web prototype (Internet resources for K-12) Multimedia on-demand resource Internet resources content partners student projects and yes, kids still use books too Database interfaced with Web full text search tools (Oracle) retrieve the "right" video clip, news clip, image, text New York State the Interactive Journey Real-time three-dimensional navigation (VRML) Terrain with landcover data Exploration environment for kids Framework for organizing multimedia databases classroom multimedia projects community Web sites Multimedia Design and Development Video clips with easy to browse descriptive text "stills" of key images sound files links to references, resources Valued added by kids Considering key education research partners to exploit successful base What kind of learning can take place? What does new technology enable? Bypass traditional problems (discipline, knowledge base)? What is a digital story? What is the link between global information and local content? How do kids participate in the creative process? Professional media content a catalyst? Can viewers become users and participants? Teacher Workshop Feedback Interactive applications support ability to experience and explore Currency of information, impact of immediacy, multiple viewpoints Creating information content stimulates involvement, learning Individualized lessons, used independently, customized to individual Structure of learning environment both focused and expansive Summary of Living Schoolbook Real project in classroom today Innovative infrastructure Ten nationally known content providers Re-tooling US schools See I-Way Demo Wed 11-12 GII #52, CRPC booth # R50, Glimpse of the Living Schoolbook on-line Related URLs NPAC http://www.npac.syr.edu Living Schoolbook http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/ltb InfoMall http://www.infomall.org Kids Web http://www.npac.syr.edu/textbook/kidsweb Advanced Web Capabilities for Industry http://www.infomall.org/home/advanced_web.html