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Visit this pavilion to learn how emerging technologies can appropriately and effectively facilitate learning for all students. Emphasis will be placed on how innovative technologies can be integrated into daily classroom practice.
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Energy-Efficient Modular Classrooms
B2L (Built to Learn)
These energy-efficient modular classrooms are designed to promote a safe
and healthy environment. The B2L houses pod-like containers with special
programs focused on subject mastery: astronomy, economics, geometry.
. . Choose your place and your pace.
Culturally-Based Mathematics
Culturally Situated Design Tools
This software helps students master standards-based mathematics principles
as they simulate the original artifacts and develop their own culturally
specific creations. Now you're speaking my language.
Customizable Learning Environments
GooRu
GooRu is a customizable education system that replaces books, writing
utensils and desks. The three-part technology system consists of an
interactive PDA called the GooBall, a backpack, and a removable flexible
LCD screen for each student. Personalize your classroom and learn your
way.
High Performance Learning Environments
Virginia Tech Center for High Performance Learning Environments
Integrated photovoltaic and thermal solar roofs, geothermal heating and
cooling, daylighting—the Center for High Performance Learning Environments
promotes "buildings that teach," where building systems become active
participants in learning. Smart buildings? You have no idea.
Educational Games
Making History
Get into a rich World War II world where every nation has its own agenda
and where events can turn on a single alliance. Work with your nation's
historic strengths and weaknesses. Build up your industry, infrastructure,
economy and military. Create alliances. Then reshape your strategy as
the world evolves with each turn.
Immersive Learning Environments
Phoebe's Field
Total immersion physics - where abstract concepts such as force fields,
atomic structure and the Pythagorean Theorem—are explained through metaphor
and analogy. This extra-spatial environment allows complete immersion,
where learning is experienced in three dimensions.
Innovative Display Technologies
Pocket Projector
Mitsubishi's big idea, at just one pound, fits in the palm of your hand,
so you can gain the effectiveness of a small versatile projector anytime
you want. Gone are the days of wheeling in the big AV cart.
Three-Dimensional Display Technologies
Portable viz3D
3D visualization is a key ingredient in illustrating complex physical
structures in academic settings. Explore docking molecules, proteins,
tectonics, weather patterns or compound machinery in 3D and significantly
impact students' understanding of complex systems.
Rapid Serial Visual Presentation
ReadRacer
What if you could double or triple your onscreen reading speed? ReadRacer
uses a speed-reading method called RSVP (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation)
that allows people to learn to read up to 2,000 words per minute. Because
it flashes words or short phrases onto the screen in front of you, fixed
in one spot, you don't have to move or refocus your eyes. Experience
text in a new way.
Information Display Technologies
The IV: InfoView
Information Viewer is an elegant interactive wall design that turns a
wall into a dynamic storytelling space. Simply slide the IV along its
rails to see and hear the changing graphics, text, video or 3D content.
Watch a timeline come alive!
Text to Scene Technology
WordsEye
WordsEye enables anyone to be a 3D graphics artist by typing a picture.
This software takes a text description and then generates a fully rendered
scene based on the description. Watch your language.
Infrared and Laser Input Devices
Virtual Keyboard
Project a keyboard onto any flat surface and type away! The full-size
layout allows you to approach the typing speeds of a standard keyboard,
and it's only 3.5 inches tall. For the technology-wary, it even makes
simulated key-click sounds.
Innovative Display Technologies
Goo Systems
Goo Systems has created a paint-on coating designed to provide exceptional
projection results. Any rigid transparent surface can now be cost-effectively
transformed into a high-quality dual-sided projection screen to accommodate
front or rear projections. How big is your TV?
Innovative Display Technologies
FogScreen
The FogScreen™ projection screen produces a thin curtain of "dry" fog
that serves as a translucent projection screen, displaying images that
literally float in the air. Using tap water and ultrasonic waves, FogScreen
machines employ a patented technology to create a smooth foggy airflow
that captures images just like a screen. Command attention.
Modeling and Simulation
VMASC
Get inside the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center 3D image
dome. While inside the dome, the user's entire field of view is filled
with the image curved across the concave surface of the dome. The relative
immersion of the dome easily creates a suspension of disbelief; it's the
new reality. |