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Teaching with Technology
The classroom of the future, and the future of the classroom


A Presentation for the President's Annual Retreat
 September 9, 1995
University of Virginia

Kirk Martini
Assistant Professor of Architecture and Civil Engineering

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Copyright © Kirk Martini, 1995
Note to browsers
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Overview
Images, the web, and the future


Digital Images
New roles for photographs in teaching

The Web
Broadcasting from the desktop

The Future
Reasons to come to class

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Digital Images
Benefits I expected


Archival
Kodak: A slide has an useful life of three to four hours of total projection time

Electronic filing
No more hunting and refiling

Flexible sequencing
Not bound by sequence of a carousel

Annotation
Graphic commentary in image analysis

Integrate images into course content
Turning down the lights means "get to work" not "go to sleep"

Emphasize modelling in technical teaching
Photographs help link analytic methods to the real world

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Digital Images
Benefits I did not expect


Enhancement
The digital darkroom: pulling information from the shadows

Details
The electronic zoom lens: slides within slides

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Enhancement
The digital darkroom


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Details
The digital zoom lens


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Annotation
The digital laser pointer


Pompeii Notes

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The World Wide Web
Publishing and broadcasting from everyone's desktop


Replacing paper and phones
  • Course Administration
  • School Administration
  • Business

    Teaching resources
  • Other Courses
  • On-Line Archives
  • Government Organizations
  • Current Events
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    From Substitution to Innovation
    The marriage of technology with sound teaching technique


    Image viewing
    Preview, interactive discussion, and review

    Group collaboration
    The web as scribe

    Distance learning
    The web as the classroom

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    The Future
    The role of the University and the classroom


    In the near future, hyperlearning will be the core process of nearly all business, work, and home life. . .But education, as an industry and institution, is not just going to fade away or be reformed into the 'classroom of tomorrow.' It's going to collapse suddenly and swiftly. . .like the Soviet Union. . .the World Series and Tom Foley.

    Lewis J. Perelman
    (Seattle Times 11/27/94)

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    The Future
    Guiding principles for higher education


    Teacher interaction
    A person who has access to expert advice and dialog will learn better than someone who doesn't

    Learner interaction
    A person who also has access to interaction and dialog with other motivated learners will learn better still

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    The Future
    Principles for action


    Enrich
    Use technology to collect and distribute rich sources of information.

    Distill
    Use technology to remove routine information transfer and administration from classroom time

    Distinguish
    Cultivate the unique human interaction potential of the classroom as a comparative advantage

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