Presentations

G1:1 - a short overview, by Tak-Wai Chan

Hands Across the Oceans, by John Cherniavsky

Kaleidoscope: "Concepts and methods for the future of TEL", by Nicolas Balacheff

Kaleidoscope: A European research network of excellence on Concepts and methods for exploring the future of learning with digital technologies, by Nicolas Balacheff

Cyberinfrastructure Future (short), by William Chang

Cyberinfrastructure Future, by William Chang

Short-term action items (by Sherry Hsi)

Action Items:

Draft a document that contains the start of an inventory of existing projects, grade levels hardware, pedagogical approaches, content topics, and other aspects of wireless technologies in education efforts. This should also include an inventory of ways in which these projects sustain themselves and/or how they are organized within a larger research initiative or research collaborative. This document should not simply be like information found in metadata or be driven-by database design, but include a narrative description that answers the question "What's unique?", Note that when this document is translated into other languages, the records of information may need to be customized to fit the local use (e.g., the fields reflect the changes vocabularies, Asian font interfaces, etc.) (Leads: Mike Sharples, Alice Agogino, Sherry Hsi)
Set up a place for shared online communication (list-serv, calendar, document sharing, forums using BSCW. This place will contain minutes, profiles of participants, key future meetings such as CSCL, Project Kaleidescope, or other events. This place should not be just a place for the leaders to discuss, but there should be a place where the programmers and implementers can also share their ideas, ask clarifying questions. (Lead: Marcelo)
Draft a 'blueprint proposal' that can serve as a template or starting point for other G1:1 proposals at other institutions. This basic blueprint proposal should be customized at each local institution with the goal of soliciting new funding to support one's participation in the G1:1 collaborative. The first proposal will likely emphasize getting support for graduate students to attend a doctoral consortium at CSCL (Lead: Jeremy and Tak-wai)

Future Action Items:

It was recognized that once the inventory has been taken of existing projects, a future action item is a document is needed that articulate what characteristics and qualities or features make a G1:1 test-bed.

Other Comments:

See Collaboration Finder as an example of something that Alice Agogino may be able to offer/write a supplemental grant to use for collaboration purposes. http://www.smete.org/smete/nsdl/collabfinder

Jeremy elaborated upon what might go into the blue print proposal: We might use the blueprint proposal to write to NSF to get more funds to support graduate student time to work on G1:1, or support a doctoral consortium at the upcoming CSCL which will be held in Taiwan. The doctoral consortium students are like 'virtual doctoral students' because they are grounded in the same set of selected readings, and other shared interests in wireless mobile technologies in education.

Mike encouraged people to set up a mechanism to get industry subscriptions to G1:1 projects to help provide support/justification of time spent on this project.

Sherry suggested a document that articulates exactly how industry can participate in G1:1 and what are the benefits of membership. Some discussion ensued about what models exist. Heidy offered to send information about how MediaX works with industry.

Mohammed and others will investigate sustainable (business) models for G1:1 and share with the group

What does our alliance intend to do? (by Jeremy Roschelle)

We see an unprecedented opportunity

to take advantage of emerging portable, inexpensive, networked, personal technologies
and to build upon 30 years of international learning science research

leading to

the design of innovative tools for all learners
and systematic research on the ability of such tools to dramatically improve learning.

Because innovation in technology and learning science research are now both inherently global enterprises, international collaboration is a prerequisite for realizing this opportunity. We intend to form a Global R&D Alliance to shape this opportunity towards its most effective realization. Our alliance will seek to:

organize the sharing of designs, methods, and findings;
explore learning with similar technologies across multiple cultures;
coordinate related research projects occurring in different parts of the world.

The founding members of this alliance are senior research leaders:

in education, computer science, social science, and engineering
working on improving lifelong learning of science, mathematics, language, arts and humanities.
experienced in running large scale and multinational projects
successful in collaborating with industry.

Our meeting this week has produced both a shared vision and practical actions that we intend to pursue collaborately in the coming months and years. These include:

a list of near-term actions to cross-fertilize our research efforts
a description of long-term research directions that we agree to be most important
refinements to the plan for the structure of our alliance