1.4. Impacts
Electronic Classroom is a tool which makes presenting more
interactive even in classic-style classrooms. Electronic Classroom also
makes note-taking more time-efficient while at the same time providing more
valuable notes than would usually be available in a classic-style classroom
setting.
In an online-lecture style of classroom, Electronic Classroom allows
a practically limitless amount of students to follow along with a presenter
as he lectures. The students see the presenter's notes as he writes them
and Electronic Classroom automatically retains a copy of the presenter's
notes for the student.
Positive Impacts
- Presenting - EC is a presentation tool which increases the ability of
the presenter to give informative and reviewable presentations. EC
enhances the classroom experience by integrating the presenter's
prefabricated notes with his on-the-fly notes. With EC, there's no more
switching from projector to whiteboard -- the two are combined.
- Note-taking - Electronic Classroom provides the students with a live
copy of the presenter notes. Not only are students able to see all the
presenter's notes as he makes them, but students may take additional
notes on their own computers, save them, and review them at any time.
- Interacting - EC allows students to interact with other students, the
presenter, or even the entire class. If a student has a question, he may
type out his question or
write it on a layer and submit his question to the presenter. A
notification displays on the presenter's console where the presenter may
review the question and display it for all the students to see. The
presenter may then answer the question himself, or enable the layer
for editing by selected students if they have an answer.
- Scaling - Because each student has the entire lecture on his own
computer as it is presented, there is no need to limit classes because of
physical room size or projector-visibility. Students can watch the same
presentation in several classrooms, their dorms, or even in a city very
far away.
Negative Impacts
- application-specific learning - Students and professors that haven't
used EC yet must get aquainted with the software in order to take
advantage fully of its time-saving and apprehension-enhancing qualities.
EC is designed to be user-friendly and as intuitive as possible, but
as with learning any new tool, there is a certain amount of resources
that must be expounded in order to know how to use EC optimally.
- distraction - both the presenter and students can easily get
distracted with so much going on. Drawings, the roster, approval tracker,
and forum...there's a lot that could potentially take away from the
content of the lecture.
Neutral Impacts
- market-shift - EC shifts the market which may be viewed as positive
and negitive. EC promotes the usage of projects over whiteboards. It also
increases the need for laptops or classroom computers.
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