From chan at cl.ncu.edu.tw Sat Sep 1 21:48:02 2007 From: chan at cl.ncu.edu.tw (Tak-Wai Chan) Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:48:02 +0800 Subject: Eee PC In-Reply-To: <005201c7cb5a$4158c3e0$1205470a@BobKozma> References: <005201c7cb5a$4158c3e0$1205470a@BobKozma> Message-ID: <004e01c7ec9e$b77f9c50$0101a8c0@Chanx60> Hi, Another manufacturer in Taiwan is releasing Eee PC (very low-price notebooks) in September. The attached file is an email, the news, from my PhD student, Emily Ching. Unfortunately the news is in Chinese. It will be nice if someone can make a short summary from it in English. Tak-Wai -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Emily Ching" Subject: =?big5?B?tdi600VlZSBQQyA5pOutq7jLpFewfSClqqfwQ2xhc3NtYXRlIKVrpbRPTFBD?= Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:58:52 +0800 Size: 14999 URL: From john.brecht at sri.com Wed Sep 5 02:17:15 2007 From: john.brecht at sri.com (John Brecht) Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:17:15 -0700 Subject: Eee PC In-Reply-To: <004e01c7ec9e$b77f9c50$0101a8c0@Chanx60> References: <005201c7cb5a$4158c3e0$1205470a@BobKozma> <004e01c7ec9e$b77f9c50$0101a8c0@Chanx60> Message-ID: <1DB7CDAC-16ED-4A1B-B644-0601A2A49EDB@sri.com> The wikipedia article is fairly informative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC -jb On Sep 1, 2007, at 6:48 AM, Tak-Wai Chan wrote: > Hi, > > Another manufacturer in Taiwan is releasing Eee PC (very low-price > notebooks) in September. > The attached file is an email, the news, from my PhD student, Emily > Ching. > Unfortunately the news is in Chinese. It will be nice if someone > can make a > short > summary from it in English. > > Tak-Wai > > From: "Emily Ching" > Date: August 30, 2007 10:58:52 PM PDT > To: > Subject: ??Eee PC 9????? ??Classmate ??OLPC > > > ??Eee PC 9????? ??Classmate ??OLPC > 2007/08/29 20:00 ??? > ?????????????? 8?29?? ??? > ????????????????? 2357(TW)?? > ???????????Eee PC?9?? ?????? > Intel(US-INTC????)???7??? ?Classmate PC?? > ???10?????OLPC(One Laptop Per Child)????? > ????????Eee PC???????????? > ????OLPC????? ???????? > > ???????MIT?Intel?????????? ? > ?????????????????????? > ? ??????4000??(??????1.32??)? > ?? ?????????????30?????? > ???? 39.73?????????????? > > ???????????????Eee PC???? ? > ??Eee PC??????WiFi????? Skype?? ? > ???30?????????????????? > ? ?NB? > > ?????????Eee PC??????? 199? ? > (??????6588?)???????????? > 245-299????(????8111-9899?)?????? ? > ????NB???????????????? > ?? ???????????????????? > ???? ??? > > ?????????Eee PC??????30??? ? > ??1????????100?????????? > ? ????????????????????? > ??? ??????????? > > ??MIT???2382(TW)?????OLPC???? ??? > ????????????????????? ? > ?????MIT??????????????CPU? > ??????128MB????256MB???????? > ? ???512MB????1GB? > > ????OLPC???????????????? > ??????3?????4??????????? > 100????????170??????OLPC??? > ?? ?NB???100?????????MIT???? > ??? ????????????2009?OLPC??? > ??? 100????? > > ?????????OLPC??????Eee PC?? ? > ????OLPC???????????????? > ? ???OLPC??????? 1??XO?????? > ?? ???????????OLPC??????? > ???? ????????100????????? > 50????? > > ?? Intel?Classmate PC?????????? ??? > ???Classmate PC???5?????199?? ?549? > ???????????????SSD???? Intel > ?????????????????? > > Intel??????????????????? > ? ???????????Intel??????2331 > (TW) ???????????????????? > ???? ??Classmate PC????????????? > > ??Classmate PC?????????????? ?? > ?????????????????????? > ?Classmate PC??????????????? Intel > ??10????????????????? > Classmate PC????MIT?OLPC? > > ????????????????????? > Intel?MIT?????????? Intel???OLPC? > ????????????????????OLPC? > XO ?Classmate PC?Eee PC????????????? > ???????????OLPC?XO???????? > ? ???????????????????? > ???? ??????????????Classmate PC > ?Eee PC ?????????????? > > ?????????????????????? > ??????????????????????? > (end) > > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > Emily Ching > PhD student > Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering > National Central University > > No.300, Jhongda Rd., Jhongli City, > Taoyuan County 32001, Taiwan > Phone: +886-3-4227151 ext. 35406 > Email: emily at CL.ncu.edu.tw > _______________________________________________ > connect with G1:1 community -> discussion at g1to1.org > subscribe/unsubscribe G1:1 discussion mailing list -> http:// > mail.g1to1.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion -- John Brecht Learning Technology Engineer Center for Technology in Learning SRI International john.brecht at sri.com (650)859-2325 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeremy.roschelle at sri.com Sat Sep 8 01:15:44 2007 From: jeremy.roschelle at sri.com (Jeremy Roschelle) Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:15:44 -0700 Subject: new g1on1 publications from SRI Message-ID: <46E18740.70704@sri.com> Dear G1on1 Colleagues, I am please to share six new publications on the topic of 1:1 devices for classroom learning, continuing our center's tradition of contributions to G1on1 studies. You can learn about and download the articles here: http://www.ctl.sri.com/projects/displayProject.jsp?Nick=wild The Advances in Computing article would make a nice reading for a graduate seminar, as it provides a broad context for thinking about 1:1 devices for the classroom. The IEEE Computer article describes GroupScribbles, our recent tool which many people seem to like (see http://groupscribbles.sri.com). You can read about these and the other three articles by following the link above. We also have a new project continuing the GroupScribbles work, with international collaborations with Singapore, Taiwan, and Spain. I think it would be very nice if others would take this opportunity to share recent projects and publications from your labs.... I'd love to hear what's happening out there! -- jeremy Jeremy Roschelle Director, Center for Technology in Learning SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave, BN-376 Menlo Park CA 94025 (650) 859-3049 (phone) (650) 859-4605 (fax) http://www.ctl.sri.com/people/displayPerson.jsp?Nick=jroschelle From Mike.Sharples at nottingham.ac.uk Sat Sep 8 01:23:28 2007 From: Mike.Sharples at nottingham.ac.uk (Sharples Mike) Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 18:23:28 +0100 Subject: new g1on1 publications from SRI In-Reply-To: <46E18740.70704@sri.com> References: <46E18740.70704@sri.com> Message-ID: Dear Jeremy and G1:1 colleagues, Thanks Jeremy for the opportunity to read your new publications. The timing is excellent - for the new semester and graduate teaching. In the same spirit, can I recommend the publications on mobile learning at the TeLearn archive http://telearn.noe-kaleidoscope.org/open-archive/browse?browse=collection/30/publication&index=0&filter=all¶m=30 including a draft overview chapter on mobile learning research by Marcelo Milrad, Immaculada Arnedillo S?nchez Giasemi Vavoula and myself, for a book on research from the Kaleidoscope network. Also - hope you and your students will drop in on the European Mobile Learning SIG website at http://mlearning.noe-kaleidoscope.org/, where you can find news, resources, projects, contacts, and links. Best wishes, Mike -----Original Message----- From: discussion-bounces at g1to1.org [mailto:discussion-bounces at g1to1.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Roschelle Sent: 07 September 2007 18:16 To: discussion at g1to1.org Subject: new g1on1 publications from SRI Dear G1on1 Colleagues, I am please to share six new publications on the topic of 1:1 devices for classroom learning, continuing our center's tradition of contributions to G1on1 studies. You can learn about and download the articles here: http://www.ctl.sri.com/projects/displayProject.jsp?Nick=wild The Advances in Computing article would make a nice reading for a graduate seminar, as it provides a broad context for thinking about 1:1 devices for the classroom. The IEEE Computer article describes GroupScribbles, our recent tool which many people seem to like (see http://groupscribbles.sri.com). You can read about these and the other three articles by following the link above. We also have a new project continuing the GroupScribbles work, with international collaborations with Singapore, Taiwan, and Spain. I think it would be very nice if others would take this opportunity to share recent projects and publications from your labs.... I'd love to hear what's happening out there! -- jeremy Jeremy Roschelle Director, Center for Technology in Learning SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave, BN-376 Menlo Park CA 94025 (650) 859-3049 (phone) (650) 859-4605 (fax) http://www.ctl.sri.com/people/displayPerson.jsp?Nick=jroschelle _______________________________________________ connect with G1:1 community -> discussion at g1to1.org subscribe/unsubscribe G1:1 discussion mailing list -> http://mail.g1to1.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. From gjhwang at mail.nutn.edu.tw Sat Sep 8 18:34:11 2007 From: gjhwang at mail.nutn.edu.tw (=?utf-8?Q?Gwo-Jen_Hwang_=28=E9=BB=83=E5=9C=8B=E7=A6=8E=29?=) Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 18:34:11 +0800 Subject: new g1on1 publications from SRI References: <46E18740.70704@sri.com> Message-ID: <000e01c7f203$cc199200$1b01a8c0@your158524a61c> Thank you. Those articles are very helpful. Sincerely Yours, Gwo-Jen Hwang Department of Information and Learning Technology National University of Tainan 33, Sec. 2, Shulin St.,Tainan city 70005, Taiwan, R.O.C. TEL: 886-915396558 FAX: 886-6-3017001 E-mail: gjhwang at mail.nutn.edu.tw http://web.nutn.edu.tw/el/gjhwang/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharples Mike" To: "Jeremy Roschelle" ; Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 1:23 AM Subject: RE: new g1on1 publications from SRI Dear Jeremy and G1:1 colleagues, Thanks Jeremy for the opportunity to read your new publications. The timing is excellent - for the new semester and graduate teaching. In the same spirit, can I recommend the publications on mobile learning at the TeLearn archive http://telearn.noe-kaleidoscope.org/open-archive/browse?browse=collection/30/publication&index=0&filter=all¶m=30 including a draft overview chapter on mobile learning research by Marcelo Milrad, Immaculada Arnedillo S?nchez Giasemi Vavoula and myself, for a book on research from the Kaleidoscope network. Also - hope you and your students will drop in on the European Mobile Learning SIG website at http://mlearning.noe-kaleidoscope.org/, where you can find news, resources, projects, contacts, and links. Best wishes, Mike -----Original Message----- From: discussion-bounces at g1to1.org [mailto:discussion-bounces at g1to1.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Roschelle Sent: 07 September 2007 18:16 To: discussion at g1to1.org Subject: new g1on1 publications from SRI Dear G1on1 Colleagues, I am please to share six new publications on the topic of 1:1 devices for classroom learning, continuing our center's tradition of contributions to G1on1 studies. You can learn about and download the articles here: http://www.ctl.sri.com/projects/displayProject.jsp?Nick=wild The Advances in Computing article would make a nice reading for a graduate seminar, as it provides a broad context for thinking about 1:1 devices for the classroom. The IEEE Computer article describes GroupScribbles, our recent tool which many people seem to like (see http://groupscribbles.sri.com). You can read about these and the other three articles by following the link above. We also have a new project continuing the GroupScribbles work, with international collaborations with Singapore, Taiwan, and Spain. I think it would be very nice if others would take this opportunity to share recent projects and publications from your labs.... I'd love to hear what's happening out there! -- jeremy Jeremy Roschelle Director, Center for Technology in Learning SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave, BN-376 Menlo Park CA 94025 (650) 859-3049 (phone) (650) 859-4605 (fax) http://www.ctl.sri.com/people/displayPerson.jsp?Nick=jroschelle _______________________________________________ connect with G1:1 community -> discussion at g1to1.org subscribe/unsubscribe G1:1 discussion mailing list -> http://mail.g1to1.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. _______________________________________________ connect with G1:1 community -> discussion at g1to1.org subscribe/unsubscribe G1:1 discussion mailing list -> http://mail.g1to1.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion __________ NOD32 2513 (20070907) ?T?? __________ ?o???T???w?g?q?L?F NOD32 ???r?t????????. http://www.eset.com From ogata at is.tokushima-u.ac.jp Wed Sep 12 13:21:39 2007 From: ogata at is.tokushima-u.ac.jp (Hiroaki Ogata) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:21:39 +0900 Subject: MULE 2007 WS report In-Reply-To: <46E18740.70704@sri.com> References: <46E18740.70704@sri.com> Message-ID: <7.0.0.16.2.20070912132659.08219de0@is.tokushima-u.ac.jp> Dear Colleagues, Here is a brief report of the workshop on MULE in Hong Kong in August, which is one of Asian mobile learning research activities, especially for young researchers. 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Kozma in Commentary : Academia , Use Cases : Education , Implementation : Plan I have been critical of OLPC in this column previously but I want to express now that I support the ultimate goal of the program. And while I do not believe that One Laptop Per Child is appropriate for all countries and I have serious reservations about their implementation model, I would like to provide some recommendations to policy makers, based on research and my own consulting experience around the world, that I believe will help make OLPC a success in those countries that choose to adopt it. First, I believe along with the OLPC program that all students, as well as a nation's society and economy more generally, can benefit from an educational system that prepares students to be problem solvers, knowledge creators, and self-learners. This is a profoundly different educational goal from that of most of the world's education systems that aspire (if that is the appropriate word) to produce students who are proficient at recalling established facts and accurately applying standard procedures. While such a goal may have been sufficient (if that, too, is the appropriate word) for simpler times and for a manufacture-based economy built on standard procedures and unskilled or semi-skilled labor, the world today is a much different place that calls for a fundamental transformation in educational systems. The set of social, economic, and environmental challenges that confront us today are significantly more complex than in previous decades and requires an education system that can develop a nation's citizenry and workforce to its full creative and productive capacity. While I share the goal of the OLPC, it is not at all clear to me that giving each child a computer is the only or even best way of accomplishing this goal. Indeed, there is significant evidence that merely distributing computers in schools will have little effect on education. But if policy makers decide to buy into the OLPC, what can they do to increase the return on the significant investment that their participation requires? I have five recommendations: 1. Align education policy goals and programs with other social and economic policy goals. The OLPC finesses the need to change education policies, programs and structures. The program seeks to transform the education system in a covert way by distributing XO hardware and software that will, presumably, change how it is that students learn and, in turn, change education without directly addressing the policies and structures of the education system. First, there is no evidence that this approach to educational change is effective. Second, there is considerable evidence that educational systems are extremely resilient and if perturbed will merely absorb an intervention into the current system without affecting change or will reject the intervention altogether. On the other hand, there are a number of countries (such as Finland, Chile, Singapore, Ireland, Korea) that have directly addressed educational change as a central vehicle for dramatic social and economic development. These countries have shown that computers can be used to launch, foster, and support significant educational change if they are used as part of a broader vision of social and economic improvement. Consequently, policymakers who are joining OLPC in order to provide students with new skills that are needed to address the challenges of the 21st century should not only introduce computers but look at the broad range of educational policies, programs and structures that must also be changed if the introduction of computers is going to contribute to social and economic development. 2. Revise the curriculum and school pedagogy. One the corollary changes that will be needed to produce students with skills, attitudes, and propensities needed to address 21st century challenges is a revision of the curriculum. Beyond the memorization of established facts and the reproduction of standard procedures, students will need to be able to apply school subject knowledge to solve complex, real world problems. They will need to be able to work in teams on extended projects that cut across subject matter lines. They will need to be able use technology to search for, organize, evaluate and create knowledge. And they will be able to set their own learning goals, evaluate their progress and the quality of their products, and continuously revise and refine what it is that they know. These are the skills that will propel students - along with a nation's social and economic structures - into the 21st century. Contrary to Professor Negroponte's assertion, these skills are extremely complex and - unlike learning one's mother tongue - they do not come automatically through interaction with other students and with powerful machines. These new skills require new curricular goals, new classroom content and activities, and new pedagogical structures. Policy makers should plan for these changes as part of the introduction of XO machines, if this investment is to pay off. 3. Redesign assessments. Whatever changes may be made in the formal curriculum, they will be undone in the classroom if corresponding changes do not occur in assessments. Current assessments have been refined over the decades to measure the individual performance of students on the recall of facts and the application of simple procedures. Educational policy makers who are serious about the introduction of new skills into the curriculum must create assessments that provide students with ongoing opportunities to apply their knowledge in complex, real world settings, to work in teams, and to assess themselves and each other with challenging standards for success. Without these changes, teachers and students who faithfully use XO machines and materials as intended will most certainly generate disappointing results, because traditional assessments are not designed to measure the learning goals of OLPC. More likely, teachers will subvert the goals of OLPC and either squeeze the use of the XO into the standard education model for which the traditional assessments are designed or reject the use of the XO as irrelevant to their educational goals. 4. Provide extensive teacher professional development. The biggest disagreement that I have with the OLPC implementation model is its total disregard for the role that the teacher plays in student classroom success. Evaluation studies (primarily in the U.S.) that show successful implementation of laptop programs demonstrate the important role that teachers play in structuring the students' use of the computer. The training of teachers - and even parents - is an essential component to this success. This professional development includes more than training in equipment operation. New pedagogical models are required, if the laptop programs are going to result in the constuctivist and constructionist learning outcomes envisioned by OLPC. Teachers need training and practice in these pedagogical techniques. Policy makers implementing OLPC are advised to design an extensive program and supportive structure for teacher professional development. This training is often most effectively administered by other teachers who have already implemented and are currently using the techniques in their classes. Consequently, the most effective professional development programs involve communities of teachers who are engaged in collaboration and mutual support. These efforts often involve extensive partnerships between government agencies, professional organizations, and the private sector. 5. Provide technical support. The OLPC program also underestimates the magnitude of effort needed for the large-scale installation and maintenance of hardware, software, and networking equipment. Children and teachers can not maintain the system. An extensive network of skilled technicians must be developed to support schools, teachers, parents, and children. All of this is to say that the job of educational transformation is much harder and more complex than the OLPC programs suggests. But in many cases, the effort is vital to a country's future, nonetheless. The investment in OLPC should involve a thoughtful, multi-year plan which involves building the policies, programs, structures and capacities that are needed to make the investment pay off. I recommend starting with a number of lead schools that represent the broad range of demographic conditions in the country. The initial implementations - pilot projects, if you will - allow the country to build an experiential base for subsequent scaling, create a core of lead principals and teachers who can support this scaling, and provide evidence that can aid in fine-tuning the program and justify its scaling. At the same time, initial implementations provide a phase-in period in which national agencies can revise the curriculum and redesign assessments. While this process will take far longer than that envisioned by OLPC, it is more realistic and the changes are just as dramatic and more likely to occur - that is, if the political will is there. Tags: Constructionist Learning | OLPC Implementation | OLPC Policy | Robert Kozma | School Pedagogy | XO Hardware | ____________________ Robert B. Kozma, Ph.D. Emeritus Director and Principal Scientist Center for Technology in Learning SRI International 2151 Filbert St. San Francisco, CA 94123 USA CTL Website: http://ctl.sri.com Personal Website: http://robertkozma.com Phone +1 415 292 2471 Mobile +1 415 623 4340 Fax: +1 415 651 9954 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Mike.Sharples at nottingham.ac.uk Tue Sep 18 16:18:36 2007 From: Mike.Sharples at nottingham.ac.uk (Sharples Mike) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:18:36 +0100 Subject: FW: University Student Passes for Handheld Learning 2007 Message-ID: A note from Graham Brown-Martin the organiser of the Handheld Learning Conference of discounts for students at the conference. The conference is from 10-12 October and they are expecting over 800 participants. You can see Graham appearing in the excellent Teachers TV documentary on mobile phones in schools (see the link below). Mike ----------------- Hello Just to let you know that we have a limited number of reduced rate passes for students on university undergraduate or postgraduate study for this years Handheld Learning Conference. If you or your students are interested please contact Isabel (isabel at handheldlearning.co.uk) or kabelo (kabelo at handheldlearning.co.uk). Full information about the event maybe found at: hhtp://www.handheldlearning2007.com Recent Teachers TV Mobile Phones in Schools documentary: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1043898959196049305&hl=en Best wishes Graham Brown-Martin ---------------------------------------------------------- Handheld Learning 2007 Conference http://www.handheldlearning2007.com ---------------------------------------------------------- Graham Brown-Martin Founder Handheld Learning Ltd email: graham at handheldlearning.co.uk web: http://www.handheldlearning.co.uk tel: 020 7511 8773 efax: 0870 135 3255 skype: grahambrownmartin aim/ichat: gbmlondon icq: 293669624 ---------------------------------------------------------- This email and any attachments are confidential and may be the subject of legal privilege. Any use, copying or disclosure other than by the intended recipient is unauthorised. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately via +44 020 7511 8773 or by email to admin at handheldlearning.co.uk and delete this message and any copies from your computer and network. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. From hsiuling at cl.ncu.edu.tw Wed Sep 19 16:33:50 2007 From: hsiuling at cl.ncu.edu.tw (HSIULING) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:33:50 +0800 Subject: News on mobile enabled website Message-ID: <20070919083356.DC99F51F00B@mail.lst.ncu.edu.tw> Dear all, The G1to1 website homepage adds a new section, News, and is open up for all of us to post current information or ongoing research. We shall also solicit some keynotes or invited talk presentations related to 1:1 learning and post them on the webpage. Thanks Rory McGreal to provide us a brief of the interactive website compatible with low and high end mobile devices for English learners by Athabasca University. "Athabasca University - Canada's Open University is releasing this mobile enabled website, .(G1:1 )" said Rory. All the best, G1:1 Web Master -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: