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Although women make up half the country’s work force, they comprise less than 25 percent ofSTEM-related jobs, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.esa.doc.gov/Reports/women-stem-gender-gap-innovation\">Department of Commerce report \u003c/a>from last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apart from the overall problem of \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_19187536\">cutting out\u003c/a> hands-on science projects and tinkering in schools, the issue is even more pointed when it comes to girls. A recent study called “\u003ca href=\"http://www.aauw.org/learn/research/upload/whysofew.pdf\">Why So Few\u003c/a>” shows \u003c!--more-->that only 20 percent of bachelors degrees in STEM fields go to girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17917\" class=\"wp-caption left\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/01/steering-girls-to-science-and-tech-careers/ebony/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17917\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17917\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Ebony-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thirteen-year-old Ebony Green has hopes for a career in science.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Techbridge is showing Ebony an alternate future. Once a week, she and 20 other girls voluntarily stay after school from 3 to 5 p.m. to get their hands on soldering irons and protractors to make things like LED-lit sculptures and catapults. Beyond teaching these girls those specific skills, Techbridge is giving them something much more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's interesting to me,” Ebony says. “Because some things that I didn't believe, I believe in now. I never knew about soldering, or I never knew about crystals or anything like that and since I'm interested in that I wanted to get into a program where it's a lot about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #333399\">\u003cstrong>THE IMPORTANCE OF ROLE MODELS\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing research consistently shows is the impact that one-on-one relationships and role models can have in influencing kids. And that’s one of the defined goals of the Techbridge program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Ebony and her peers get to work once a week with Esosa Ozigbo, who comes from a similar background as many of the girls in the program -- single-parent home, struggling financially, parents who never graduated from high school. But Ozigbo, a Stanford graduate with a science degree, is living proof that there’s a way out – and it might just be in a field like science or math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely know that growing up, it would have been great to have someone like that come in and talk to me,” Ozigbo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ozigbo leads Techbridge field trips, taking girls to companies like Google and Yahoo for site visits so they see for themselves the possibility of a life that’s different than what they’ve lived so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff6600\">Read \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/12/oakland-schools-superintendent-a-tough-job-for-a-tough-guy.html\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff6600\">more about Oakland Unified School District's plans\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to address the dropout problem in this interview with Superintendent Tony Smith.\u003c/span>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I took some girls to San Francisco, they had never been on the other side of the bay,” she says. “It's just about seeing what's out there and seeing if it's in your grasp and saying, This is what I have to do, this is what I can do. 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Last month, a group of girls from Montera Middle School in Oakland were brought to Google to learn some important tips in using the site to conduct research – whether it’s simply for curiosity or for a school project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe that access to information is one of the greatest equalizing forces,” Bergson-Michelson said. “Knowing how to find information, evaluate it, and use it appropriately is one of the ways we see a divergence among people who have access to education and those who don’t. “\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bergson-Michelson hopes that her time with the Techbridge girls will show that her route could also be theirs. \"I want them to know that whatever path they choose to take, they have the power to, by experimentation and by engaging with our world and thinking creatively to learn a great deal about these technologies they use every day and become more powerful,\" she says. \"How could you possibly get a job at Google if you didn't start with a dream?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that Ebony shows up to Techbridge week after week on her own volition is an encouraging sign to Ozigbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's coming every week, finding some sort of acceptance or community or fun in here,\" she says. \"Once these girls get that satisfaction from completing that kit, or making that soldering ornament and knowing they can do something that most people aren't given the chance to do, that most adults don't know how to do or don't know about, that knowledge in itself is so empowering and can really take them places.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/topic/american-graduate/\">PBS American Graduate Program\u003c/a>, I produced a segment for the PBS NewsHour on Ebony Green and Techbridge with correspondent Spencer Michels. 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A recent study called “\u003ca href=\"http://www.aauw.org/learn/research/upload/whysofew.pdf\">Why So Few\u003c/a>” shows \u003c!--more-->that only 20 percent of bachelors degrees in STEM fields go to girls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17917\" class=\"wp-caption left\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/01/steering-girls-to-science-and-tech-careers/ebony/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17917\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17917\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Ebony-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thirteen-year-old Ebony Green has hopes for a career in science.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Techbridge is showing Ebony an alternate future. Once a week, she and 20 other girls voluntarily stay after school from 3 to 5 p.m. to get their hands on soldering irons and protractors to make things like LED-lit sculptures and catapults. Beyond teaching these girls those specific skills, Techbridge is giving them something much more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's interesting to me,” Ebony says. “Because some things that I didn't believe, I believe in now. I never knew about soldering, or I never knew about crystals or anything like that and since I'm interested in that I wanted to get into a program where it's a lot about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #333399\">\u003cstrong>THE IMPORTANCE OF ROLE MODELS\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing research consistently shows is the impact that one-on-one relationships and role models can have in influencing kids. And that’s one of the defined goals of the Techbridge program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Ebony and her peers get to work once a week with Esosa Ozigbo, who comes from a similar background as many of the girls in the program -- single-parent home, struggling financially, parents who never graduated from high school. But Ozigbo, a Stanford graduate with a science degree, is living proof that there’s a way out – and it might just be in a field like science or math.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely know that growing up, it would have been great to have someone like that come in and talk to me,” Ozigbo says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ozigbo leads Techbridge field trips, taking girls to companies like Google and Yahoo for site visits so they see for themselves the possibility of a life that’s different than what they’ve lived so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff6600\">Read \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/12/oakland-schools-superintendent-a-tough-job-for-a-tough-guy.html\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff6600\">more about Oakland Unified School District's plans\u003c/span>\u003c/a> to address the dropout problem in this interview with Superintendent Tony Smith.\u003c/span>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I took some girls to San Francisco, they had never been on the other side of the bay,” she says. “It's just about seeing what's out there and seeing if it's in your grasp and saying, This is what I have to do, this is what I can do. I think that makes the world of a difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though they only meet once a week, Ozigbo makes sure to connect personally with the girls. Sometimes she takes Ebony home after, and they have a chance to talk about what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even in that short time, we're going to reach them all, we talk, we laugh, we joke about things like guys and stuff like that,” she says. “We tell them to always stand up for what you believe in, we do shout-outs to the girls who get up so they learn how to be comfortable when speaking in a crowd. It's little but I'm hoping that those little different things will make a big difference in the end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claude Steele thinks it will. Steele is the author of \u003cem>Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us\u003c/em> and the dean for the School of Education at Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What those girls will see from that kind of a program is that women do succeed in these fields, that role model strategy is a really effective one,” Steele says. “It's the existence proof idea, the stereotype may be out there, but look, there's a woman who is succeeding and that means it's possible for me to succeed and, and it starts to reduce the sense that I would worry about being seen stereotypically.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17923\" class=\"wp-caption left\" style=\"max-width: 478px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/01/steering-girls-to-science-and-tech-careers/esosa/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17923\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-17923\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Esosa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Esosa.png 478w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Esosa-400x209.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Esosa-320x167.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Esosa Ozigbo, far left, jokes with students, cheering them on when projects are complete.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tasha Bergson-Michelson, a search expert at Google, is one of the women that Techbridge girls get to meet. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignleft mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/10/whats-behind-the-culture-of-academic-dishonesty/chemistry_homework/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15979\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-15979\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/10/chemistry_homework.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">B. Gilliard\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Technology is often blamed for encouraging bad behavior, particularly when it comes to academic dishonesty. 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And answers with explanations and \"proofs.\" But it's not as straightforward a transaction as it looks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the site was originally launched with answers written by math tutors and teachers, the plan going forward is to use the peer-to-peer model -- students helping each other on the site. The most useful answers will be rated with stars to distinguish them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, students have long shared their answers the old fashioned way -- turning to one another for help, sharing their answers and solutions -- whether over the phone or face-to-face, whether transcribed word-for-word from another student's paper or solved thanks to the help and support from a peer. 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And most interestingly, users can also \u003cem>earn\u003c/em> points that can actually be \"cashed out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way to earn points: \u003ca href=\"http://www.slader.com/contribute/\">contributing\u003c/a> one's own homework answers back to the Slader community.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff6600\">Users can earn points that can be \"cashed out\" by contributing one's own homework answers back to the Slader community.\u003c/span>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It's an interesting way to encourage students to help one another and to share their homework solutions: doing so allows them to earn royalties of sorts on the work they do. Slader pays points each time a solution is viewed. So ideally the better the solution, the more views, and the more earnings. Users can actually \"cash out\" too, withdrawing the money they've earned via the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ability for students to earn money from their homework is certainly an interesting twist on \"the work\" they are doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/01/redefining-cheating-with-homework/screen-shot-2011-12-05-at-10-33-47-am/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17897\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Screen-shot-2011-12-05-at-10.33.47-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Screen-shot-2011-12-05-at-10.33.47-AM.png 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Screen-shot-2011-12-05-at-10.33.47-AM-400x303.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Screen-shot-2011-12-05-at-10.33.47-AM-320x243.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to create a platform that can handle math homework (all that mathematical notation and such), the Slader team has created a number of tools, including an equation editor that captures the step-by-step process of moving through a solution. The team has also seeded the site with solutions to the homework problems in most high school level math textbooks. That's no easy task with approximately 100 textbooks in their various versions and editions (so roughly 275 textbooks in all). To create the answers (and it's worth noting too that there are multiple answers to the same question, demonstrating there are multiple ways to solve math problems), Slader enlisted the help of some 2,500 math majors and math teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the startup's demand for answers to every single homework problem in every single math textbook may be an obstacle that Slader will have to cross if it plans to expand. As is, it's incredibly challenging to keep pace with the ever-changing textbook industry. And right now, much of this work on Slader's part is done by hand. This isn't a mechanized system; this is the Slader team verifying correct answers as well as verifying the pages and exercise numbers in textbooks. Things will be further complicated if, as the startup plans, it expands beyond math to other subject areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the startup also faces competition from a variety of other online homework help sites: \u003ca href=\"http://cramster.com\">Cramster\u003c/a>, for example, or Yahoo Answers or \u003ca href=\"http://www.homeworkhelp.com/\">Homeworkhelp.com\u003c/a>. Googling \"I need help with homework\" makes evident that there are a lot of questionable Web sites out there, ones with questionable answers and questionable fees. That will make it challenging for Slader to win an SEO game against some of these sites so that the startup actually shows up in searches. But it's also a challenge on the \"social\" search aspect as well. After all, students want the \"right\" answer, but they also tend to want to hear it from sources they trust -- and oftentimes that's their friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Slader expands, it will have to win over interest (and pocketbooks) of high school students to convince them to move their homework activities to its online community. It will also have to win over teachers and parents (something that the startup already makes a \u003ca href=\"http://www.slader.com/for-parents/\">great effort\u003c/a> to do), to help them understand that this isn't about cheating. Rather it's about students teaching and learning and sharing with one another. It's about recognizing that they've \u003cem>always\u003c/em> done this. And as such, it's about helping students with the tools and a service so that they can benefit in doing so -- benefit intellectually as well as financially.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Users can also purchase more views (in case of math emergency, I suppose).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's worth pointing out here that the site is designed with the recognition that most high school students probably don't have credit cards to pay for these sorts of online transactions. As such, one can pay for points via parents' credit cards, but points can also be gifted to another person or offered as \"bounties\" to answer other questions. And most interestingly, users can also \u003cem>earn\u003c/em> points that can actually be \"cashed out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One way to earn points: \u003ca href=\"http://www.slader.com/contribute/\">contributing\u003c/a> one's own homework answers back to the Slader community.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff6600\">Users can earn points that can be \"cashed out\" by contributing one's own homework answers back to the Slader community.\u003c/span>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It's an interesting way to encourage students to help one another and to share their homework solutions: doing so allows them to earn royalties of sorts on the work they do. Slader pays points each time a solution is viewed. So ideally the better the solution, the more views, and the more earnings. Users can actually \"cash out\" too, withdrawing the money they've earned via the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ability for students to earn money from their homework is certainly an interesting twist on \"the work\" they are doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/01/redefining-cheating-with-homework/screen-shot-2011-12-05-at-10-33-47-am/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17897\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Screen-shot-2011-12-05-at-10.33.47-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Screen-shot-2011-12-05-at-10.33.47-AM.png 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Screen-shot-2011-12-05-at-10.33.47-AM-400x303.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2012/01/Screen-shot-2011-12-05-at-10.33.47-AM-320x243.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to create a platform that can handle math homework (all that mathematical notation and such), the Slader team has created a number of tools, including an equation editor that captures the step-by-step process of moving through a solution. 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Or spend more time on social and emotional issues, like how to play nice and pay attention?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent research by a \u003ca href=\"http://www.gse.uci.edu/faculty/profilebridge.php?faculty_id=5614\" target=\"_blank\">UC Irvine education professor\u003c/a> shows that math skills among kindergartners turn out to be a key predictor for future academic success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Greg Duncan and his colleagues \u003ca href=\"http://www.gse.uci.edu/research/achieve_attent_behave.php\" target=\"_blank\">analyzed studies\u003c/a> conducted with close to 20,000 kindergartners, assessing their knowledge of math, literacy and other skills, including their ability to stay on task and make friends. 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Reading was next most important, and then attention skills were third most important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social skills, including the ability to self-regulate and control one’s temper, are also important. But Duncan found that they weren’t as closely linked to future academic success as math and reading. Students who exhibit antisocial behavior through elementary and middle school tend to drop out of high school at higher rates, Duncan found, but again, those with persistently low math scores also dropped out at higher rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his research shows that kindergarten teachers ought to devote more time to math instruction. It can be simple things, he said, like learning shapes and numbers and the concept of smaller and bigger numbers along a number line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you show kindergartners a line with zero at one end and 10 at the other, and ask them, ‘Where’s the 8?’, they tend to put the 8 in the middle,” Duncan said. “They don’t know that there’s this cardinal pattern. And unless you show them a number line and they understand where numbers are in relation to each other, it’ll be hard for them to get addition and subtraction later on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some question whether children are ready for certain math concepts in kindergarten. As kindergarten has grown more academically oriented in the past decade, there’s been an increasing emphasis on teaching more advanced material to younger children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kindergartners are learning what used to be learned in the first grade,” said Jill Cannon, a researcher who has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication.asp?i=792\" target=\"_blank\">written about kindergarten\u003c/a> for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/home.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a>. “Some people even argue that preschool is becoming too academic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some childhood advocates warn that instructional time is edging out playtime and putting unnecessary pressure and stress on kids. 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(\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mini-minute/id475250350?mt=8\">iTunes link\u003c/a>). iOS, Free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>EXPLORIMENTS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long known for its Flash-based educational content, \u003ca href=\"http://exploriments.com\">Exploriments\u003c/a> launched 3 science education apps for the iPad this month: Weight, Mass and Force of Gravity (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/exploriments-weight-mass-force/id483875230?mt=8\">iTunes link\u003c/a>), Fluids - Archimedes Principle, Buoyancy and Flotation (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/exploriments-fluids-archimedes/id483896866?mt=8\">iTunes link\u003c/a>), and Electrostatics - Coulomb's Law (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/exploriments-electrostatics/id483991925?mt=8\">iTunes link\u003c/a>). The apps offer simulated experiments with a wide range of variability and interactions. 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"content": "\u003ch5>\u003cem>This week, we feature the most popular posts of the year on MindShift. This one, which seems most apropos to review on the eve of 2012, took the top spot.\u003c/em>\u003c/h5>\n\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignleft mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/booleansplit/3616922753/sizes/m/in/photostream/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17767\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/3616922753_14c7ec393d-300x346.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"346\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Flickr:Robert S. 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The root of curricular change will be the shift in middle schools to a role as foundational content providers and high schools as places for specialized learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>17. PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCE NIGHT\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOngoing parent-teacher relations in virtual reality will make parent-teacher conference nights seem quaint. Over the next ten years, parents and teachers will become closer than ever as a result of virtual communication opportunities. And parents will drive schools to become ever more tech integrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>18. TYPICAL CAFETERIA FOOD\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNutrition information + handhelds + cost comparison = the end of $3.00 bowls of microwaved mac and cheese. At least, I so hope so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>19. OUTSOURCED GRAPHIC DESIGN AND WEB DESIGN\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYou need a website/brochure/promo/etc.? Well, for goodness sake just let your kids do it. By the end of the decade -- in the best of schools -- they will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>20. HIGH SCHOOL ALGEBRA 1\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWithin the decade, it will either become the norm to teach this course in middle school or we'll have finally woken up to the fact that there's no reason to give algebra weight over statistics and I.T. in high school for non-math majors (and they will have all taken it in middle school anyway).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>21. PAPER\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn ten years' time, schools will decrease their paper consumption by no less than 90%. 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In ten years, the teacher who hasn't yet figured out how to use tech to personalize learning will be the teacher out of a job. Differentiation won't make you \u003c!--more-->'distinguished'; it'll just be a natural part of your work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. FEAR OF WIKIPEDIA\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWikipedia is the greatest democratizing force in the world right now. If you are afraid of letting your students peruse it, it's time you get over yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. PAPERBACKS\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBooks were nice. In ten years' time, all reading will be via digital means. And yes, I know, you like the 'feel' of paper. Well, in ten years' time you'll hardly tell the difference as 'paper' itself becomes digitized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9. ATTENDANCE OFFICES\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nBio scans. 'Nuff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10. LOCKERS\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA coat-check, maybe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11. I.T. DEPARTMENTS\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOk, so this is another trick answer. More subtly put: IT Departments as we currently know them. Cloud computing and a decade's worth of increased wifi and satellite access will make some of the traditional roles of IT -- software, security, and connectivity -- a thing of the past. What will IT professionals do with all their free time? Innovate. Look to tech departments to instigate real change in the function of schools over the next twenty years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>12. CENTRALIZED INSTITUTIONS\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSchool buildings are going to become 'homebases' of learning, not the institutions where all learning happens. Buildings will get smaller and greener, student and teacher schedules will change to allow less people on campus at any one time, and more teachers and students will be going out into their communities to engage in experiential learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>13. ORGANIZATION OF EDUCATIONAL SERVICES BY GRADE \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nEducation over the next ten years will become more individualized, leaving the bulk of grade-based learning in the past. Students will form peer groups by interest and these interest groups will petition for specialized learning. The structure of K-12 will be fundamentally altered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>14. EDUCATION SCHOOLS THAT FAIL TO INTEGRATE TECHNOLOGY\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThis is actually one that could occur over the next five years. Education Schools have to realize that if they are to remain relevant, they are going to have to demand that 21st century tech integration be modeled by the very professors who are supposed to be preparing our teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>15. PAID/OUTSOURCED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNo one knows your school as well as you. With the power of a PLN (professional learing networks) in their back pockets, teachers will rise up to replace peripatetic professional development gurus as the source of schoolwide professional development programs. This is already happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>16. CURRENT CURRICULAR NORMS\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere is no reason why every student needs to take however many credits in the same course of study as every other student. The root of curricular change will be the shift in middle schools to a role as foundational content providers and high schools as places for specialized learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>17. PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCE NIGHT\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOngoing parent-teacher relations in virtual reality will make parent-teacher conference nights seem quaint. Over the next ten years, parents and teachers will become closer than ever as a result of virtual communication opportunities. And parents will drive schools to become ever more tech integrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>18. TYPICAL CAFETERIA FOOD\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNutrition information + handhelds + cost comparison = the end of $3.00 bowls of microwaved mac and cheese. At least, I so hope so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>19. OUTSOURCED GRAPHIC DESIGN AND WEB DESIGN\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nYou need a website/brochure/promo/etc.? Well, for goodness sake just let your kids do it. By the end of the decade -- in the best of schools -- they will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>20. HIGH SCHOOL ALGEBRA 1\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWithin the decade, it will either become the norm to teach this course in middle school or we'll have finally woken up to the fact that there's no reason to give algebra weight over statistics and I.T. in high school for non-math majors (and they will have all taken it in middle school anyway).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>21. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignright mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/12/the-touchy-feely-future-of-technology/6226457945_25fbf1675c_z/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17790\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17790\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/6226457945_25fbf1675c_z-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Flickr: maxcosworth\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch5>By NPR Staff\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>In 1975, when then-composer and performer \u003ca href=\"http://billbuxton.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Buxton\u003c/a> started designing his own digital musical instruments, he had no way of knowing he was helping to spark the next technological revolution. But nine years — and a master's in computer science — later, that all changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wasn't trying to make a computer interface, I was just trying to make a drum,\" Buxton tells NPR's Robert Siegel. \"Did I envision what was going to happen today, that it would be in everybody's pocket — in their smartphone? Absolutely not. Did we realize that things were going to be different, that you could do things that we never imagined? ... Absolutely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Buxton is known as a pioneer in human-computer interaction, a field of computer science that has seen a spike in consumer demand thanks to a new, seemingly ubiquitous technology: Touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the technology, media and telecommunications company \u003ca href=\"http://www.ihs.com/products/isuppli/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">IHS iSuppli\u003c/a>, global shipments of touch-screen cellphones and tablets have gone from 244 million units to 630 million units in just two years. This year, iPad sales nearly quadrupled compared to 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignleft mceTemp\" style=\"width: 140px\">\u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=227\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-17777\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/IMG_0558-140x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Casio AT 550 watch\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/12/23/144185699/timeline-a-history-of-touch-screen-technology\">Read more about the history of touch-screen technology as it has evolved over the years. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But if you ask Bill Buxton, the touch explosion has been long in the making. It's part of a theory he calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan2008/id2008012_297369.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Long Nose of Innovation\u003c/a> and it says that much of the innovation behind any technological breakthrough actually takes place over a long period of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buxton became part of the long nose of touch technology when, in 1977, he signed up to study computer science at the University of Toronto. Today, Buxton is \u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/bibuxton/\" target=\"_blank\">principal researcher at Microsoft Research\u003c/a>, but he says the fact that he started out as a musician and not a technology insider has been invaluable to his work in computer science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just your imagination that's driving it and you're not trying to be so deliberate,\" he says. \"That usually just makes you get uptight, constrained and it's far better just to find something you love doing, chase it down and the rest will just fall out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sci-Fi: Boldly Going Where No Science Has Gone Before\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To many, the tablet computer seems new. But NPR's Laura Sydell reports that the idea for a flat, personal computer shaped like a book has actually been around for a long time. Just think of Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 novel \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/139095392/2001-a-space-odyssey\" target=\"_blank\">2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c/a> in which space travelers follow news on Earth via a \"Newspad\" that downloads the world's major electronic papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clarke's newspads also show up in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film by the same name, where the fictional devices look so much like an iPad that today \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/24/139925696/samsung-objects-to-ipad-patent-saying-stanley-kubrick-came-up-with-it-first\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung says it proves their Galaxy Tab isn't a rip off of Apple's iPad\u003c/a>. They've even included a link to a YouTube clip from the film in their court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before \u003cem>Space Odyssey\u003c/em>, tablet computers had already appeared in 1966 on the original \u003cem>Star Trek\u003c/em>. The first iteration was called an electronic clipboard and was used to control the ship. Around 1989, it was redesigned to ultimately do a lot of the same things iPads do today; \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVqHoGKQXLI&feature=player_embedded#%21\">the show's characters used it\u003c/a> to read books, look at reports and send messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usability expert Kevin Fox says he's not surprised science fiction writers came up with the tablet before science did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think science fiction is the brainstorming part of science,\" Fox says. \"Look at \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/authors/139110060/jules-verne\">Jules Verne\u003c/a> for example. He's talking about going to the moon; he's talking about submarines, that sort of thing. It's a lot easier to do that than it is to hold your tongue ... until you've actually made a rocket that can go to the moon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How iPads Are Changing The Classroom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the iPad \u003cem>does\u003c/em> exist, people are finding a lot of practical applications for it. Jamestown Elementary School in Arlington County, Va., has a growing cache of iPads, about 100 for 600 students. The school uses its tablets for everything from writing to math to reading graphic novels. \u003c!--more-->But NPR's Larry Abramson reports that in one classroom the iPad has been a real game changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special education assistant Lesley McKeever uses an iPad to get her student, an affectionate autistic boy who can't speak, to learn to connect words with images by touching the right picture on the screen. Touch technology has been so helpful for students with autism that Arlington County provides enough iPads for every student in the special education classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>\u003c/h5>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003ch5>Four Ways Technology Will Change Our Lives In The Future\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Technology experts Mike McSherry, CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/12/26/144146395/%5C%5C%5C%5C%5C%22http://www.swype.com/%5C%5C%5C%5C%5C%22\">Swype\u003c/a>, and Bill Buxton make their predictions for where technology will go next. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Gesture Technology:\u003c/strong> \"I think you're going to be able to do things with your head or your eyes,\" McSherry tells Robert Siegel. \"Maybe you're interacting with your laptop right in front of you and it's got a little camera that looks back at you. Right now that's only used for video chat and I think that's going to become more of an interpretive camera that identifies gestures while interacting with your common laptop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Personal Profile Models: \u003c/strong>\"I think you're going to have personal profile models that follow you around. Your language is different than someone else's language and as you interact with a phone or a tablet or your car, your language is going to be different in all those different contextual environments,\" McSherry says. \"You're gonna build that profile with you and if you pick up a new device, you want to take that learned knowledge and behavior with you. You don't want to train it up from scratch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. The Cloud:\u003c/strong> \"Stand-alone devices are essentially going away,\" McSherry says. \"The phone's all connected; tablets you either have the Wi-Fi or cellular connection in there and you're also going to store settings up in the cloud, where the more I know about how you interact with something, the better I'm going to be able to predict future behavior of that. And I think people are going to want that ease of interaction and known preferences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. True Window Shopping:\u003c/strong> Researcher Bill Buxton says,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\"I imagine in the future that we truly will have window shopping in the sense that you walk down the street and you can actually see some clothing and use your mobile to pass over your dimensions and you'll be able to on a screen see that piece of clothing, how well it fits your body shape, walking around through some avatar and then have it purchased and delivered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>According to Apple, more than 2,300 school districts in the U.S. have iPad programs for students or teachers. But the benefits of having iPads in the classroom don't come free. Teachers say you have to invest time into the technology in order to get something out of it, which means much of the iPad's usefulness will depend on the applications both teachers and publishers discover as adoption grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Jury's Still Out On Tablets In Hospitals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals are also exploring the usefulness of iPads. At the University of California, San Diego Hospital, physician's assistant Kate Franko uses an iPad 2 to update a patient who just received a brand new kidney on his recovery. She pulls up a graph of blood tests that charts how well his new kidney is working, then a chest X-ray from a few days ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It shouldn't come as a surprise that tablets are starting to find their way into hospitals, but Jenny Gold of NPR partner Kaiser Health News reports that their usefulness in the medical profession is still an open question. There are concerns about spotty wireless in hospitals, distracted doctors and the security of patient records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Mack of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.westwirelesshealth.org/\" target=\"_blank\">West Wireless Health Institute\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that works to lower the cost of health care through new technology, says another reason more hospitals aren't using tablets is that they've already invested millions into electronic record systems that aren't compatible with tablets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In order to go back around and deploy these on iPads with full functionality,\" Mack says, \"it requires [that hospitals] cough up a lot more money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And hospitals won't be willing to do that when they aren't even sure that tablets will make things easier. In the meantime, even pioneers like Franko are hedging their bets. In addition to her iPad and two iPhones, she also carries a good old-fashioned pager around — just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Living The Fantasy Of Touch\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals aren't the only ones expressing hesitation about touch. Professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.mit.edu/%7Esturkle/\" target=\"_blank\">Sherry Turkle\u003c/a>, director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, sees the rise of technology like smartphones as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/02/25/134059283/have-we-grown-too-fond-of-technology\" target=\"_blank\">cause for concern\u003c/a>. She says touch devices are more than just the latest in a sequence of high-tech distractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that the touch pad is a very important moment because the touch pad makes our devices feel more like an extension of ourselves,\" Turkle tells Robert Siegel. \"We feel anxious when we're not in contact [and] we feel a kind of psychic permission.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A psychic permission to, say, text in the middle of a class or even at a funeral. That's because whipping out your touch-screen smartphone is a lot more discreet then whipping out your laptop. And if touch-screen texting isn't subtle enough, Turkle says she knows of people who are trying to perfect the technique of texting without breaking eye-contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is becoming a new, highly valued social skill,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(In keeping with Bill Buxton's Long Nose theory, so-called blind texting technology has actually been around for a while — since 1984, to be exact. That's the year Casio released the \u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=227\" target=\"_blank\">AT-550 watch\u003c/a> which allowed users to write character over character on the watch in order to control calculator functions. According to Buxton, \"Incredibly subtle texting is there just waiting for somebody to make a product. There's no impediment to that.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without blind texting, there's something almost instinctual about the relationship people are developing with their technology. Turkle says that's because touch-screen devices appeal to a sentiment that pretty much everyone can relate to: the desire to be a kid again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[The] fantasy of using your body to control the virtual is a child's fantasy of their body being connected to the world,\" Turkle says. \"That's the child's earliest experience of the world and it kind of gets broken up by the reality that you're separate from the world. And what these phones do is bring back that fantasy in the most primitive way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Turkle warns that living in that fantasy world could mean missing out on the real world around you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Surface: The Next 'Bingo' Moment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it's clear that the fantasy world of touch technology isn't going anywhere. Samsung and Microsoft have just released a new product that's bound to once again change the way many people interact with computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's called the Samsung SUR40, or Microsoft's Surface, and while it looks a lot like a table, it's actually a multi-touch computer. The Surface at the Microsoft facility in Reston, Va., has a screen saver that makes it look like a pool of water. When you wave your hands over it, the water ripples in response. But when your hands approach the screen, a menu turns to face you. If someone across the table moves \u003cem>their\u003c/em> hands to the monitor, the menu turns to face \u003cem>them\u003c/em>. That's because the Surface can actually see your hand approaching it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only is it a display that can present graphical information to you, each pixel can be thought of as like a camera element in a digital camera, or scanner,\" says Bill Buxton, who came up with the idea for Surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buxton explains the way Surface works as being similar to how two paper cups connected by a piece of string can serve as walkie-talkies. In the walkie-talkie scenario, each cup is used as both a microphone to speak into and a speaker to hear what the other person is saying. Somewhere around 1992, Buxton says he started wondering if the same thing could be done with light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I asked an engineer who was way smarter than me, 'Could that be done?' and the answer was 'Yes,'\" Buxton recalls. \"In essence Surface is the first device that really has taken that approach.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buxton explains that the Surface monitor is made of up pixels that can both display images and read them. So if you hold a piece of paper face-down on the monitor, it can tell you what it says — and that's pretty groundbreaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That opens up a whole new realm of interaction that is something that some of us have been working on for over a decade, and dreamed about maybe 20 years ago,\" Buxton says. \"And bingo, it's starting to be manufactured.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignright mceTemp\" style=\"width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/12/the-touchy-feely-future-of-technology/6226457945_25fbf1675c_z/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17790\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-17790\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/6226457945_25fbf1675c_z-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Flickr: maxcosworth\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch5>By NPR Staff\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>In 1975, when then-composer and performer \u003ca href=\"http://billbuxton.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Buxton\u003c/a> started designing his own digital musical instruments, he had no way of knowing he was helping to spark the next technological revolution. But nine years — and a master's in computer science — later, that all changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wasn't trying to make a computer interface, I was just trying to make a drum,\" Buxton tells NPR's Robert Siegel. \"Did I envision what was going to happen today, that it would be in everybody's pocket — in their smartphone? Absolutely not. Did we realize that things were going to be different, that you could do things that we never imagined? ... Absolutely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Buxton is known as a pioneer in human-computer interaction, a field of computer science that has seen a spike in consumer demand thanks to a new, seemingly ubiquitous technology: Touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the technology, media and telecommunications company \u003ca href=\"http://www.ihs.com/products/isuppli/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">IHS iSuppli\u003c/a>, global shipments of touch-screen cellphones and tablets have gone from 244 million units to 630 million units in just two years. This year, iPad sales nearly quadrupled compared to 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignleft mceTemp\" style=\"width: 140px\">\u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=227\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-17777\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/12/IMG_0558-140x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Casio AT 550 watch\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/12/23/144185699/timeline-a-history-of-touch-screen-technology\">Read more about the history of touch-screen technology as it has evolved over the years. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But if you ask Bill Buxton, the touch explosion has been long in the making. It's part of a theory he calls \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan2008/id2008012_297369.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Long Nose of Innovation\u003c/a> and it says that much of the innovation behind any technological breakthrough actually takes place over a long period of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buxton became part of the long nose of touch technology when, in 1977, he signed up to study computer science at the University of Toronto. Today, Buxton is \u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/bibuxton/\" target=\"_blank\">principal researcher at Microsoft Research\u003c/a>, but he says the fact that he started out as a musician and not a technology insider has been invaluable to his work in computer science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just your imagination that's driving it and you're not trying to be so deliberate,\" he says. \"That usually just makes you get uptight, constrained and it's far better just to find something you love doing, chase it down and the rest will just fall out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sci-Fi: Boldly Going Where No Science Has Gone Before\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To many, the tablet computer seems new. But NPR's Laura Sydell reports that the idea for a flat, personal computer shaped like a book has actually been around for a long time. Just think of Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 novel \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/titles/139095392/2001-a-space-odyssey\" target=\"_blank\">2001: A Space Odyssey\u003c/a> in which space travelers follow news on Earth via a \"Newspad\" that downloads the world's major electronic papers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clarke's newspads also show up in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film by the same name, where the fictional devices look so much like an iPad that today \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/24/139925696/samsung-objects-to-ipad-patent-saying-stanley-kubrick-came-up-with-it-first\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung says it proves their Galaxy Tab isn't a rip off of Apple's iPad\u003c/a>. They've even included a link to a YouTube clip from the film in their court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even before \u003cem>Space Odyssey\u003c/em>, tablet computers had already appeared in 1966 on the original \u003cem>Star Trek\u003c/em>. The first iteration was called an electronic clipboard and was used to control the ship. Around 1989, it was redesigned to ultimately do a lot of the same things iPads do today; \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVqHoGKQXLI&feature=player_embedded#%21\">the show's characters used it\u003c/a> to read books, look at reports and send messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usability expert Kevin Fox says he's not surprised science fiction writers came up with the tablet before science did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think science fiction is the brainstorming part of science,\" Fox says. \"Look at \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/books/authors/139110060/jules-verne\">Jules Verne\u003c/a> for example. He's talking about going to the moon; he's talking about submarines, that sort of thing. It's a lot easier to do that than it is to hold your tongue ... until you've actually made a rocket that can go to the moon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How iPads Are Changing The Classroom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the iPad \u003cem>does\u003c/em> exist, people are finding a lot of practical applications for it. Jamestown Elementary School in Arlington County, Va., has a growing cache of iPads, about 100 for 600 students. The school uses its tablets for everything from writing to math to reading graphic novels. \u003c!--more-->But NPR's Larry Abramson reports that in one classroom the iPad has been a real game changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Special education assistant Lesley McKeever uses an iPad to get her student, an affectionate autistic boy who can't speak, to learn to connect words with images by touching the right picture on the screen. Touch technology has been so helpful for students with autism that Arlington County provides enough iPads for every student in the special education classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch5>\u003c/h5>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003ch5>Four Ways Technology Will Change Our Lives In The Future\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Technology experts Mike McSherry, CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/12/26/144146395/%5C%5C%5C%5C%5C%22http://www.swype.com/%5C%5C%5C%5C%5C%22\">Swype\u003c/a>, and Bill Buxton make their predictions for where technology will go next. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Gesture Technology:\u003c/strong> \"I think you're going to be able to do things with your head or your eyes,\" McSherry tells Robert Siegel. \"Maybe you're interacting with your laptop right in front of you and it's got a little camera that looks back at you. Right now that's only used for video chat and I think that's going to become more of an interpretive camera that identifies gestures while interacting with your common laptop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Personal Profile Models: \u003c/strong>\"I think you're going to have personal profile models that follow you around. Your language is different than someone else's language and as you interact with a phone or a tablet or your car, your language is going to be different in all those different contextual environments,\" McSherry says. \"You're gonna build that profile with you and if you pick up a new device, you want to take that learned knowledge and behavior with you. You don't want to train it up from scratch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. The Cloud:\u003c/strong> \"Stand-alone devices are essentially going away,\" McSherry says. \"The phone's all connected; tablets you either have the Wi-Fi or cellular connection in there and you're also going to store settings up in the cloud, where the more I know about how you interact with something, the better I'm going to be able to predict future behavior of that. And I think people are going to want that ease of interaction and known preferences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. True Window Shopping:\u003c/strong> Researcher Bill Buxton says,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\"I imagine in the future that we truly will have window shopping in the sense that you walk down the street and you can actually see some clothing and use your mobile to pass over your dimensions and you'll be able to on a screen see that piece of clothing, how well it fits your body shape, walking around through some avatar and then have it purchased and delivered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>According to Apple, more than 2,300 school districts in the U.S. have iPad programs for students or teachers. But the benefits of having iPads in the classroom don't come free. Teachers say you have to invest time into the technology in order to get something out of it, which means much of the iPad's usefulness will depend on the applications both teachers and publishers discover as adoption grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Jury's Still Out On Tablets In Hospitals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals are also exploring the usefulness of iPads. At the University of California, San Diego Hospital, physician's assistant Kate Franko uses an iPad 2 to update a patient who just received a brand new kidney on his recovery. She pulls up a graph of blood tests that charts how well his new kidney is working, then a chest X-ray from a few days ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It shouldn't come as a surprise that tablets are starting to find their way into hospitals, but Jenny Gold of NPR partner Kaiser Health News reports that their usefulness in the medical profession is still an open question. There are concerns about spotty wireless in hospitals, distracted doctors and the security of patient records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Mack of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.westwirelesshealth.org/\" target=\"_blank\">West Wireless Health Institute\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that works to lower the cost of health care through new technology, says another reason more hospitals aren't using tablets is that they've already invested millions into electronic record systems that aren't compatible with tablets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In order to go back around and deploy these on iPads with full functionality,\" Mack says, \"it requires [that hospitals] cough up a lot more money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And hospitals won't be willing to do that when they aren't even sure that tablets will make things easier. In the meantime, even pioneers like Franko are hedging their bets. In addition to her iPad and two iPhones, she also carries a good old-fashioned pager around — just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Living The Fantasy Of Touch\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals aren't the only ones expressing hesitation about touch. Professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.mit.edu/%7Esturkle/\" target=\"_blank\">Sherry Turkle\u003c/a>, director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, sees the rise of technology like smartphones as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2011/02/25/134059283/have-we-grown-too-fond-of-technology\" target=\"_blank\">cause for concern\u003c/a>. She says touch devices are more than just the latest in a sequence of high-tech distractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that the touch pad is a very important moment because the touch pad makes our devices feel more like an extension of ourselves,\" Turkle tells Robert Siegel. \"We feel anxious when we're not in contact [and] we feel a kind of psychic permission.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A psychic permission to, say, text in the middle of a class or even at a funeral. That's because whipping out your touch-screen smartphone is a lot more discreet then whipping out your laptop. And if touch-screen texting isn't subtle enough, Turkle says she knows of people who are trying to perfect the technique of texting without breaking eye-contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is becoming a new, highly valued social skill,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(In keeping with Bill Buxton's Long Nose theory, so-called blind texting technology has actually been around for a while — since 1984, to be exact. That's the year Casio released the \u003ca href=\"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=227\" target=\"_blank\">AT-550 watch\u003c/a> which allowed users to write character over character on the watch in order to control calculator functions. According to Buxton, \"Incredibly subtle texting is there just waiting for somebody to make a product. There's no impediment to that.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without blind texting, there's something almost instinctual about the relationship people are developing with their technology. Turkle says that's because touch-screen devices appeal to a sentiment that pretty much everyone can relate to: the desire to be a kid again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[The] fantasy of using your body to control the virtual is a child's fantasy of their body being connected to the world,\" Turkle says. \"That's the child's earliest experience of the world and it kind of gets broken up by the reality that you're separate from the world. And what these phones do is bring back that fantasy in the most primitive way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Turkle warns that living in that fantasy world could mean missing out on the real world around you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Surface: The Next 'Bingo' Moment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it's clear that the fantasy world of touch technology isn't going anywhere. Samsung and Microsoft have just released a new product that's bound to once again change the way many people interact with computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's called the Samsung SUR40, or Microsoft's Surface, and while it looks a lot like a table, it's actually a multi-touch computer. The Surface at the Microsoft facility in Reston, Va., has a screen saver that makes it look like a pool of water. When you wave your hands over it, the water ripples in response. But when your hands approach the screen, a menu turns to face you. If someone across the table moves \u003cem>their\u003c/em> hands to the monitor, the menu turns to face \u003cem>them\u003c/em>. That's because the Surface can actually see your hand approaching it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only is it a display that can present graphical information to you, each pixel can be thought of as like a camera element in a digital camera, or scanner,\" says Bill Buxton, who came up with the idea for Surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buxton explains the way Surface works as being similar to how two paper cups connected by a piece of string can serve as walkie-talkies. In the walkie-talkie scenario, each cup is used as both a microphone to speak into and a speaker to hear what the other person is saying. 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But that immediate spark of self-pride will turn into deep self-doubt when the child invariably comes across a bigger challenge and doesn't immediately succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kids who are praised for their intelligence end up caring more about grades, trophies, and awards than those who are praised for their effort, according to the famous 1998 Stanford report \"Effects of Intelligence and Effort Praise\" by Claudia Mueller and Carol Dweck. The study showed that \"after failure, [kids] also displayed less task persistence, less task enjoyment, more low-ability attributions, and worse task performance than children praised for effort.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Kids might think that if they have to work hard at something, that must mean they're not smart. \"It’s a theory about how the world works.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But there's another byproduct: children praised for intelligence \"described it as a \u003cem>fixed trait\u003c/em> more than children praised for hard work, who believed it to be subject to improvement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why is that such a bad thing? Because telling kids they're smart when they get good grades encourages them to continue focusing on the grade rather than the learning process. They just want to keep being smart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>BEYOND SMARTS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In more recent years, research on \u003cem>how \u003c/em>the brain learns is building on those studies. \"How we learn shapes what we know and what we can do,\" writes author Annie Murphy Paul \u003ca href=\"http://ideas.time.com/2011/10/12/the-science-of-how-we-learn/#ixzz1cl1QGIPI\">in a recent \u003cem>Time \u003c/em>column\u003c/a>. \"Our knowledge and our abilities are largely determined not by our IQ or some other fixed \u003c!--more-->measure of intelligence, but by the effectiveness of our learning process: call it our learning quotient.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that anyone can learn, regardless of their inherent IQ -- with emphasis on the process, the work, the effort -- is at the heart of the work of \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.berkeley.edu/author/rmendoza-denton/\">Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton\u003c/a>, associate professor of psychology at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton extends the idea that what's harmful about emphasis on achievement and intelligence can also be applied to emphasis on learning styles (audio, visual) or \"\u003ca href=\"pzweb.harvard.edu/pis/hg_mi_after_20_years.pdf\">multiple intelligences\u003c/a>,\" a theory by Harvard professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.howardgardner.com/http://www.howardgardner.com/\">Howard Gardner\u003c/a> who distinguishes between different kinds of learners: spatial, linguistic, logical-mathematical, and so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza-Denton believes that emphasizing \"native intelligences\" reinforces the belief that kids are good at some things and, conversely, bad at others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s pervasive in our cultural narrative,\" Mendoza-Denton said at the recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.innovativelearningconference.org/\">Innovative Learning Conference\u003c/a>. \"'I'm not this kind of learner or that kind of learner. I'm good at words, but not math.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking that idea one step further, kids might think that if they have to work hard at something, that must mean they're not smart. \"It’s a theory about how the world works,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/08/29/139973743/think-youre-an-auditory-or-visual-learner-scientists-say-its-unlikely\">recent story on NPR\u003c/a> somewhat backs up Mendoza-Denton's theories. Although \"an entire industry has sprouted based on learning styles,\" a review of learning style studies led psychologist Doug Rohrer to believe that there is \"no scientific evidence backing up the idea.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have not found evidence from a randomized control trial supporting any of these, and until such evidence exists, we don't recommend that they be used,\" he \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/08/29/139973743/think-youre-an-auditory-or-visual-learner-scientists-say-its-unlikely\">told NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another researcher added more nuance. In a \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/researchers-question-learning-styles-theory-12734\">recent story by California Watch\u003c/a>, a researcher questions the effects of calling out native abilities. “Clearly, people have distinctive abilities and aptitudes. Some people have higher visual ability, and some have higher auditory ability,” said UCSD professor Hal Pashler, lead author on the report. “But the question is whether that predicts anything about the most effective way to teach them. … There is a complete lack of evidence of the sort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has caused a \u003ca href=\"http://fwd.pearson.com/blog/2011/09/01/npr-says-learning-styles-are-a-myth/\">big debate\u003c/a> in education circles by those who question the motivation of those debunking learning styles. But Mendoza-Denton maintains that reinforcing the idea that effort and elbow grease are as important or more than innate smarts will place kids on the best path of learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of saying, 'I’m not good at math, why bother trying,' she'll say, 'I didn’t study enough, so I should try harder,'\" Mendoza-Denton said. \"The meaning of difficulty changes. Difficulty means trying harder, trying a different strategy. They understand that change is possible, and progress occurs over time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"The meaning of difficulty changes. Difficulty means trying harder, trying a different strategy. They understand that change is possible, and progress occurs over time.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And just as importantly, that mistakes are \u003cem>part\u003c/em> of good learning. As a \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/why-do-some-people-learn-faster-2/\">Wired article\u003c/a> recently reported about why some are more effective at learning from mistakes, \"the important part is what happens next.\" People with a \"growth mindset\" -- those who \"believe that we can get better at almost anything, provided we invest the necessary time and energy\" -- were significantly better at learning from their mistakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This also touches on social justice issues, of course, that bring up stereotype beliefs about gender and race -- Asians are better at math, girls are worse at math, African Americans don't do well on tests like the SAT. Mendoza-Denton cited a number of studies that showed students live up (or down) to the expectations set for them. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this is not to say that people don't have specific talents, he said. \"People have aptitudes that are undeniable,\" he said. \"We can’t all be geniuses, but we can all access learning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what should parents and teachers take away from this? What we might consider ancillary to learning -- things like bonding with the teacher or mentor, words of praise about working hard over good grades -- are actually crucial to achievement. \"Simple things can affect achievement in a deep way,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>All of this raises further questions. What values about learning do we want for our kids? Is it important for them to be naturally smart to be ultimately successful? What does this say about our school assessments? How do we measure and define \"achievement\" without grades? More food for thought.\u003c/div>\n\n",
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Some people have higher visual ability, and some have higher auditory ability,” said UCSD professor Hal Pashler, lead author on the report. “But the question is whether that predicts anything about the most effective way to teach them. … There is a complete lack of evidence of the sort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has caused a \u003ca href=\"http://fwd.pearson.com/blog/2011/09/01/npr-says-learning-styles-are-a-myth/\">big debate\u003c/a> in education circles by those who question the motivation of those debunking learning styles. But Mendoza-Denton maintains that reinforcing the idea that effort and elbow grease are as important or more than innate smarts will place kids on the best path of learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of saying, 'I’m not good at math, why bother trying,' she'll say, 'I didn’t study enough, so I should try harder,'\" Mendoza-Denton said. \"The meaning of difficulty changes. Difficulty means trying harder, trying a different strategy. 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