Comments on: Three drivers of the digital classroom

By: Frank Catalano

Frank Catalano — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:59:53 +0000

Shauna, I don’t think video production will be a required course in K-12 public schools anytime soon. It’s considered more of an elective and, in the current budget environment, probably optional at that.

However, as video is a mainstream means of communication on the web, I suspect it’ll increasingly be integrated into broadly defined media literacy/ communications courses.

By: Shauna

Shauna — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:43:05 +0000

Hi Frank,

Thanks for the very interesting and informative article!
What about video production environments and curricula? Do you think they have a place in the future of education or is it too niche of a market?

– Shauna

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By: Emilio Bernabei

Emilio Bernabei — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:00:02 +0000

Frank;

This is a really good blog post. I think your insights will end up being rather prophetic. First, adaptive learning systems that support both differentiated instruction and personalized learning pathways hold significant value in the Internet age of disaggregated, unstructured content. Second, I already see IWB + distance collaboration making its way into many other industries outside education (anywhere multiple people collaborate around a surface displaying visual information that needs to be shared and manipulated in real-time). This is not a flash in the pan trend, but rather a permanent paradigm shift… well, until the next one…

Ron,
There is a market for IWB apps/content and it will be growing larger and larger as the software “dial tone” that powers the IWB-centric classroom becomes more of an open, pluggable framework upon-which 3rd-party developers can build new curriculum solutions for teachers and students (via new API’s that enable software developers to harness the interactive response clickers, document cameras, IWB’s, multi-touch tables, etc…).

Full disclosure: I work for SMART Technologies. http://sen.smarttech.com and http://exchange.smarttech.com

-Emilio

By: Ron Martinez

Ron Martinez — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:26:49 +0000

Thanks for your reply. Will look into developer program information more closely, to see what optimizations they might afford.

By: Tom McDonald

Tom McDonald — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:32:09 +0000

Hi Frank:

A great, comprehensive article.

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By: Frank Catalano

Frank Catalano — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:15:11 +0000

Ron: It depends on what you mean by open market. There is a market for third-party IWB apps, not just those developed by the IWB companies. Britannica (with Pathways: Science, as noted in the essay) and Pearson (with its IWB-optimized digits math program) are two of many examples.

Where it gets murkier is in cross-compatibility for content specifically developed for one whiteboard brand — say, by classroom teachers — using that IWB maker’s lesson creation software to then work on IWBs from other brands. There is at least one standards efforts of which I’m aware that would provide such file-level compatibility. But it’s not done yet, as far as I know.

By: Ron Martinez

Ron Martinez — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:52:40 +0000

Thank you for this. Just great.

Question: is there an open market in “IWB-optimized” software, web-based or native os app?