Reading: Education - Does technology positively impact education?
- Due Feb 2, 2018 by 11pm
- Points None
- Available Jan 21, 2018 at 9am - Feb 5, 2018 at 11pm
Required readings:
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Digital Games Target Social Change, Keri Schreiner, IEEE GC&A, Jan 2008.
- (Many games are targetting education or awareness.)
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One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality – Communication of the ACM, Jun 1 , 2009
Links to an external site. (PDF)
- (What actually happened with OLPC)
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TED - Nicholas Negroponte - One Laptop per Child (20 min)
Links to an external site.
- (What the plan was for OLPC)
Optional Readings:
Research Papers (Education) (Optional) (in past classes I had students presenting these. You don't need to read them unless interested, but thought I'd keep the links here for you):
- Massaro, Bosseler, Light, "Development and Evaluation of a Computer Animated Tutuor for Language and Vocabulary Learning", Int. Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2003 Links to an external site.
- Kumar, Tewari, Shroff, Chittamuru, Kam, Canny, "An Exploratory Study of Unsupervised Mobile Learning in Rural India", CHI 2010. Links to an external site.
- Pawar,U.S., Pal, J., Gupta, R., andToyama, K. (2007). “Multiple Mice for Retention Tasks in Disadvantaged Schools.” Proc. of CHI 2007, ACM Press. Links to an external site. (There have been follow up papers)