This Collaborative Web is the archive of our collaboration for our Scenario 2012: Global Transport Project during Spring 2002

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Brainstorming Page

Please add your ideas below and add your name in asterisks after your work to indicate ownership. If you want to create other pages, please do so. Use "help" on the left side for editing hints. Oh, if you get an "edit conflict" when you save, somebody else just saved. Scroll down and see what they've done, then cut and paste if appropriate. Nothing ever disappears--use the history button to see. Derrel

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Really mischevious grin
Wow.. this all looks great.. you've all moved ahead and I'm catching up... It seems I'll have to rethink the video we took.. I had the first two questions in mind and our video reflects those...
1. How has technology affected you, personally and/or professionally.
2. What does technology in the classroom look like in 2012?

I'll do some editing and we can brainstorm some more at our next meeting! See you all there!

Amy

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Since we are looking at the future of kids working with kids and learning from each other at a distance, we need to think about a compelling story. My thought was that we use ourselves as children, in our current cities. We choose our age or grade, and that is our core cadre. (I can see little Amy on the playground during the one day a week at school showing the other kids her newest tech gizmo.)Multiage, multilocation. We could explore service learning, joint projects for comparison, as well as learning within our own cities at our "schools".

A joint project we "kids" might approach might be the transportation view of place. How do people get around where you live and how is that affected by the culture, climate, and physical location? (Don't think we are doing the projects; we are just using them as thinking points.) (The reason this came to mind--if you care--is that in my travels to Harajuku and back today, a few things I saw were: a lady on a bike with two kids AND talking on her phone, a lady in a formal kimono with pale makeup (almost white but not obvious like Geisha white) listening to her walkman, an obaasan (grandmother) pushing her wheeled basket/with chair, a guy get slammed by the train door because he didn't shove the people in front of him out of the way fast enough--you get the picture.)

The video interviews that Amy is doing would be a good introduction to this type of scenario..

Oh, From first looks in PC Magazine, June 11:

Data on demand--delivering data to cell phones (This is already big business here in Japan.)

Holographic Data display--100GB of Video on CD-sized disk at 20 MBPS. Doesn't even have to spin.

Web Cams for Wireless networks--Camera's anytime, anywhere

Teleportec VideoConferencing http://www.teleportec.com--not quite 3D--but you do look directly at the person. It uses a version of Pepper's Ghost (Explanations at http://dafe.org/misc/peppers/peppers.htm or http://www.phantasmechanics.com/pepper.html)

Oh, I've also edited the trannie from the conversation that Don, Barb, and I had. I tried to make sure the ideas stayed in, but cut out some of the other words. Edited Trannie from June 18

6/19/02 Derrel

Another thought occurred to me as I saw a contstruction worker chatting on his keitai--we can expect essentially full-time voice connections for all students at a reasonable price by 2012. Look back to 1992: 14.4k was the highest common speed, and almost all home users connected through a proprietary service and cell phones were still big and bulky.

In the future, not only would they be able to log into their work on any public computer, many will be a passing data in a continuous stream to storage. Imagine, kids wearing microphones and having their every utterance transcribed to words and sharing their voices and thoughts in "global" areas with others. (Kind of takes me back to my "beep line" days in college.) The implications are fascinating.
6/23/02 Derrel

I like Derrel's idea of using us as kids in our own cities sharing and teaching each other. I don't know how that will fit in with Amy's video though. Looking forward to our meeting at 5 pm Pacific today.
6/23/02 Don

OK - I think all of this looks great. I like your idea about using us at different ages as the participants, but am a little confused about the "transportation view of place" Derrel. Could you explain what you visualize about that a little more?

I've been trying to visualize how to create this scenario making the most effective use of Amy's interviews. It will be easier, I'm sure, when we can meet together and see what she has...

See you all tonight -
6/23/02 Barb

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