Remotely controlled Mosaics represent a collaborative capability that could make distance teaching a much easier and more meaningful way to learn … Anything on the Web would become material for shared, real-time presentation and discussion … Specialized educational software could be integrated into the virtual classroom; an instructor could demonstrate to a remotely located student how to execute an application. The ability to run simulations on remote or local machines is another application that is very important in teaching computational science and indeed could be useful in teaching chemistry, physics, and other high school science subjects.
Predictor: Hardin, Joseph
Prediction, in context:In 1995, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology commissioned a series of white papers on various issues related to networking technologies. The department convened the authors for a workshop in November 1995 to discuss the implications. The following statement is taken from one of the white papers, “Digital Technology and its Impact on Education,” by Joseph Hardin and John Ziebarth of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They write:”The Web has become a condensation point for virtually every advanced technology developed over the last two decades by the computational science and computer science communities. All of these technologies are streaming onto the Web at fantastic rates, each bringing its own revolution in how we conceptualize the future digital communication infrastructure. Many advanced and disparate technologies are being integrated into the global system, including object-oriented frameworks for application environments and databases; state-of-the-art security methods implemented at the connection, document, compiler, and interpreter levels; efficient distributed three-dimensional modeling and scientific visualization schemes; robust and truly persistent global naming and location methods; semantic-based object description and search techniques … Remotely controlled Mosaics represent a collaborative capability that could make distance teaching a much easier and more meaningful way to learn … Anything on the Web would become material for shared, real-time presentation and discussion … Specialized educational software could be integrated into the virtual classroom; an instructor could demonstrate to a remotely located student how to execute an application. The ability to run simulations on remote or local machines is another application that is very important in teaching computational science and indeed could be useful in teaching chemistry, physics, and other high school science subjects.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: The Future of Networking Technologies for Learning
Title, headline, chapter name: Digital Technology and its Impact on Education
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Futures/
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