{"id":35253,"date":"2012-12-13T09:47:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T14:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=35253"},"modified":"2012-12-14T09:31:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T14:31:07","slug":"a-network-of-remote-controlled-mobile-videoconferencing-based-sorts-of-devices-hooked-up-to-voice-translation-engines-that-students-could-travel-the-world-with-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/12\/13\/a-network-of-remote-controlled-mobile-videoconferencing-based-sorts-of-devices-hooked-up-to-voice-translation-engines-that-students-could-travel-the-world-with-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"A network of remote-controlled, mobile, videoconferencing-based sorts of devices [hooked up to voice translation engines] that students could travel the world with! [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>&#8220;Mom! Check out what I did at school today!&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">If you&#8217;re a parent, don&#8217;t you love to hear the excitement in your son&#8217;s or daughter&#8217;s voice when they bring home something from school that really peaked their interest? Their passions?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I woke up last night with several ideas and thoughts on how technology could help students become &#8212; and stay &#8212; engaged, while passing over more control and choice to the students in order for them to pursue their own interests and passions. The idea would enable students to efficiently gain some exposure to a variety of things to see if those things were interesting to them &#8212; perhaps opening a way for a future internship or, eventually, a career.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The device I pictured in my mind was the sort of device that I saw a while back out at Double Robotics and\/or at Suitable Technologies:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doublerobotics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32809 aligncenter\" alt=\"doublerobotics dot com -- wheels for your iPad\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/double-robotics-wheels-for-your-iPad-Sept2012.jpg\" width=\"712\" height=\"891\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/double-robotics-wheels-for-your-iPad-Sept2012.jpg 712w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/double-robotics-wheels-for-your-iPad-Sept2012-119x150.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.suitabletech.com\/beam\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32903 aligncenter\" alt=\"Remote presence system called Beam -- from Suitable Technologies - September 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Beam-from-suitable-techs-9-28-12.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"884\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Beam-from-suitable-techs-9-28-12.jpg 590w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Beam-from-suitable-techs-9-28-12-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The thoughts centered on implementing a growing network of such remote-controlled, mobile, videoconferencing-based sorts of devices, that were hooked up to voice translation engines.\u00a0 Students could control such devices to pursue things that they wanted to know more about, such as:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Touring the Louvre in Paris<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Being backstage at a Broadway musical or checking out a live performance of Macbeth<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Watching a filming of a National Geographic Special in the Fiji Islands<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Attending an IEEE International Conference in Taiwan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Attending an Educause Conference or a Sloan C event to get further knowledge about how to maximize your time studying online or within a hybrid environment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Touring The Exploratorium in San Francisco<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Touring the Museum of Science &amp; Industry in Chicago<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Being a fly on the wall during a Senate hearing\/debate<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Seeing how changes are made in the assembly lines at a Ford plant<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Or perhaps, when a student wheels their device to a particular area &#8212; such as the front row of a conference, the signal automatically switches to the main speaker\/event (keynote speakers, panel, etc. via machine-to-machine communications)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Inviting guest speakers into a class: pastors, authors, poets, composers, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Work with local\/virtual teams on how to heighten public awareness re: a project that deals with sustainability<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Virtually head to another country to immerse themselves in another country&#8217;s language &#8212; and, vice versa, help them learn the students&#8217; native languages<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">For accountability &#8212; as well as for setting aside intentional time to process the information &#8212; students would update their own blogs about what they experienced, heard, and saw.\u00a0 They would need to include at least one image, along with the text they write about their experience.\u00a0 Or perhaps a brief\/edited piece of digital video or audio of some of the statements that they heard that really resonated with them, or that they had further questions on.\u00a0 The default setting on such postings would be to be kept private, but if the teacher and the student felt that a posting could\/should be made public, a quick setting could be checked to publish it out there for others to see\/experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Real world. Engaging. Passing over more choice and control to the students so that they can pursue what they are passionate about.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mom! Check out what I did at school today!&#8221; If you&#8217;re a parent, don&#8217;t you love to hear the excitement in your son&#8217;s or daughter&#8217;s voice when they bring home something from school that really peaked their interest? Their passions? 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