TechTalks Event
Student Technologies: What's Hot?
with guest experts Lonnie Harvel of the Georgia Institute of Technology and William Griswold of the University of California, San Diego�
September 19, 2002
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What are some of the hot technologies that students are using today? How fast is wireless growing? Is there still a role for hard-wired devices? How will very cheap memory and processors affect what students are able to do? Are there disruptive technologies today or in the near future that will affect higher education? Will traditional lectures disappear? What will they be replaced with?
Guest Experts
Lonnie
Harvel is a Senior Research Scientist in the School of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
He is the Director of the Digital Media Lab in ECE, the Associate
Director of the Center for Distributed Engineering Education at
GT, and an affiliate member of the Graphics, Visualization and Usability
Center also at GT. His current research includes the development
of distributed education architectures and applications, mobile
interaction, telepresence, context analysis systems and context
based content filtering. His general areas of research are context-aware
computing, context analysis, and ubiquitous computing. He received
his BFA in Theater and his MS in Computer Science from the University
of Georgia. In conjunction with his ongoing research projects, he
is trying to complete his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech.
William
Griswold is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California,
San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University
of Washington in 1991, and his BA in Mathematics from the University
of Arizona in 1985. He is Program Chair for the SIGSOFT 2002 Symposium
on the Foundations of Software Engineering, General Chair for the
2nd International Conference on Aspect Oriented Software Development,
and an officer of ACM SIGSOFT. He is also the Software and Interfaces
layer leader for the UCSD division of Cal-(IT)2, the California
Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, a joint
UCSD/UCI institute funded by industry and the state of California.
His research interests include ubiquitous computing, software evolution
and design, software tools and visualization, and program analysis.
Co-Hosts
Howard Strauss (above, left), Manager of Technology, Strategy,
and Outreach at Princeton University, is Tech Talk's Technology
Anchor.
Judith Boettcher is CREN's Executive Director.
Together, Judith and Howard will ask the really tough questions—and
relay the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.
Background & Resources
A great place to start on background for new Tech Talks is our archives of years of previous Tech Talks. Our most recent Tech Talk on Wireless Technologies: Where Are We? is closely related to this event. Our guests this week have experience with HP's cooltown, "A vision of mobility, connectivity, community, and transformation based on open standards and user needs." A good place to start in cooltown is by reading this description of its ecology.
One of Bill's projects is Active Campus, which is aimed at the uses of mobile computing for sustaining educational communities.
And here is a major new research report (PDF) from the Pew Center about students' Internet usage and . If you don't want to read the entire report, here's a Chronicle article about it.
One place students will interact with "hot" technology is in the classroom. The latest issue of Syllabus is entirely devoted to teaching and learning technologies, especially "smart classrooms." And it includes an article by our Technology Anchor, Howard Strauss: New Learning Spaces: Smart Learners, Not Smart Classrooms.
This report from EE Times describes some technololgy tools for students with a more technical background and focus.
At what some would consider the opposite end of the spectrum from engineering students, here's what English students at Minnesota State University, Mankato are getting new this year.
This year, one college found it cheaper and easier to give students cell phones than to wire their residence hall for land lines.
Bowling Green State University is making effective use of a digital video streaming service that can be utilized campuswide due to the installation of 320 �set-top boxes� in every classroom - and 4,000 archived videos to draw from!
This excellent article probably belonged on last week's event page, but we just found it. Dartmouth's wireless "network is subtly but profoundly altering teaching techniques, social interaction, study habits, and personal security" of its students.
We've been seeing lots of technology usages like this one, which assists in students electing appropriate rommates.
