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2lSTCENTURY
STUDENTS
I HARDWARE
& PERIPHERALS
By CarolDaunt
LearnTel
Normalitytakes a turn
towardstechnologyin
life and schools.
6am:Monday 15November2010
Nova wakes early to the sound of her
handheldalarm remindinqher that today is
the day for her live video link with students in
J a p a n ,R u s s i aa n d C a n a d a H
. erteam hasbeen
w o r k i n g c o l l a b o r a t i v e l yo n a c u l t u r a l e x c h a n g e
and today they debate the issues.
She sends an SMS from her handheld to
her team and their teacherto remind them to
check their wiki before they meet later today.
T h e y u s e t h e w i k i t o c o l l a b o r a t eo n t h e p a p e r
they will post to the school'swebsite about
their cultural exchangeprogram.
8am:Trovel
During her bus journey to school Nova listens
to the two podcasts her RSS feed picked
up overnight and downloaded to her MP3
player.She also catches up on reading the
e-book that is a set text for ancient history.
She loves the way the e-book has animated
r e c r e a t i o n so f a n c i e n t c i v i l i s a t i o n se m b e d d e d
into it
She dictates notes into her handheld and
t h e v o i c e - r e c o g n i t i o ns o f t w a r e t r a n s l a t e st h i s
into text so she can post both the audio and
the text to her blog once she gets to the next
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10am:ProblemSolving Class
Nova never misses her problem solving class
- s h e l o v e s t o h e a r h o w h e r c l a s s m a t e si n
lpm:Team meeting
A f t e r a o u i c k l u n c h N o v a ' st e a m m e e t s i n t h e
s c h o o lc a n t e e n w h e r e t h e y c a n u s e t h e w i r e l e s s
network to access their wiki. The team has
b e e n u s i n g a w i k i t o w o r k c o l l a b o r a t i v e l yo n
t h i s p r o j e c t f o r t w o m o n t h s .T h e w i k i e n a b l e s
them to make changes to their presentation
f r o m w h e r e v e r t h e y a r e .T h i s i s t h e f i n a l f a c e -
to-facemeeting beforethe link.
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T H EE D U C A T T O NC H N O L O G
GYU r D E
HARDWARE
& PERIPHERALS
I 2lSTCENTURY
STUDENTS