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Project Overview
Technologies and Infrastructure
Teachers and Schools
Living Schoolbook Products
Kids and Learning

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1 The Living Schoolbook and the K-12 Classroom of the Future
2 Outline
3 Vision of the Living Schoolbook Project
4 The Living Schoolbook Partners
5 Content and Media Partners
6 Status of Project
7 Does Advanced Technology Belong in K-12 Education?
8 K-12 Education Infrastructure
9 Key Role of Web Technologies
10 Scaling the Living Schoolbook
11 The Content Issue
12 Schools and Teachers
13 Products: EII Services
14 A Network Exploratorium
15 New York State the Interactive Journey
16 Multimedia Design and Development
17 What kind of learning can take place?
18 Teacher Workshop Feedback
19 Summary of Living Schoolbook
20 Related URLs

This table of Contents Abstract

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Foil 1 The Living Schoolbook and the K-12 Classroom of the Future

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Kim Mills
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
Syracuse University
Supercomputing '95
December 3-8
San Diego Convention Center, San Diego CA
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Foil 2 Outline

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Project Overview
Technologies and Infrastructure
Teachers and Schools
Living Schoolbook Products
Kids and Learning
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Foil 3 Vision of the Living Schoolbook Project

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Education a National Challenge Application
Common infrastructure for healthcare, environment, manufacturing, education
Web technologies + HPCC + future NII
EII Services
Re-tooling US schools
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Foil 4 The Living Schoolbook Partners

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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)
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Foil 5 Content and Media Partners

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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)
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Foil 6 Status of Project

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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
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Foil 7 Does Advanced Technology Belong in K-12 Education?

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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
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Foil 8 K-12 Education Infrastructure

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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
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Foil 9 Key Role of Web Technologies

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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
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Foil 10 Scaling the Living Schoolbook

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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
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Foil 11 The Content Issue

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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
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Foil 12 Schools and Teachers

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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
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Foil 13 Products: EII Services

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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
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Foil 14 A Network Exploratorium

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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
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Foil 15 New York State the Interactive Journey

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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
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Foil 16 Multimedia Design and Development

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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
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Foil 17 What kind of learning can take place?

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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?
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Foil 18 Teacher Workshop Feedback

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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
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Foil 19 Summary of Living Schoolbook

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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
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Foil 20 Related URLs

From The Living Schoolbook and the K-12 Classroom of the Future SC95 San Diego -- December 3-8. * See also color IMAGE
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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
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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