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3D printers
Technology starts out expensive, experiments with formats, then prices plummet as the technology settles and becomes an affordable product. Laser printers, when invented 1969, were $20,0000 but are now around 0.5% of that price, $100. This already happening with 3D printers. Sure, you can buy a $20,000 professional HP 3D printer but a $1200 3D printer is already available.
Donald Clark Plan B: 3D printers: gimmick or game changer
http://chronicle.com/article/3-D-Printers-Arent-Just-for/134440/
ICT purchase ideas
Hi Susan!
As per our discussion last week here is a list of items for the Computers/AV in EME 1123:
Projector: ($1892)
1 x NEC NP-U310W-WK1 (includes mount) – $1,165
1 x Apple TV for projector – $109
1 x Extron SI 26CT Speakers – $262
1 x Extron MPA 152 Amplifier for speakers – $206
1 x Kramer wall plate with VGA for legacy connections – $150
Computers: ($7899)
3 x iMac 27” 3.4GHz i7, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB Drive, Radeon HD 6970M 1GB, Applecare – ($2,308 x 3) = $6,924
3 x iMac Vesa mount adapters – ($45 x 3) = $135
3 x Kramer 1Gang wall plate with two WU-AB USB plates (Provides two USB ports in the wall for students) – ($80 x 3) = $240
I will need to find a mount that will adapt to the in-wall boxes in the south wall. I don’t have the manufacturer of those boxes in my notes to make sure I can find the plate. Guesstimate of about $200 each for $600 total.
Media Table: (Size depends on table decided, appx $2100 upper limit for AV gear)
1 x 50” Panasonic Plasma TH-50PF30U – $1,641
or
1 x 46” NEC LED Display X461S – $1,499
or
1 x 47” Panasonic TH 47LF5U – $949
and
1 x Extron SI 26CT Speakers – $262
1 x Extron MPA 152 Amplifier for speakers – $206
1 x Apple TV for Display – $109
All in all it is looking like $11,000 for the Computers and AV gear. This allows for an ultra short-throw projector to have VGA input from the wall plate and Apple TV for Airplay mirroring of the iMacs or of any other iOS devices that can connect to the network in the room. The sound will be through ceiling speakers above the area in front of the projector. The display will have a similar setup, with cables for connecting VGA if needed as well as an Apple TV for airplay to the screen. Sound as well will be through ceiling speakers above the area.
Let me know if you have any concerns or wish to discuss any alterations to this.
Thanx!
Paul
Learn lab
Teachers’ tasks – Hare
“Philosophical reflections on teaching are typically less specific and direct than practitioners might wish, but they are capable of having a profound, often gradual, effect on practice as a fundamental re-thinking of the overall enterprise of teaching, its manner, aims, and assumptions, begins to take shape. Philosophy operates at a certain level of generality and abstraction, to some extent removed from the immediate and pressing problems which beset the context in question. It is worth recalling, however, Bertrand
Russell’s warning about “the tyranny of the here and now” from which philosophical reflection may help us escape.1 Philosophy, said A. N. Whitehead, makes its slow advance by the introduction of new ideas, widening vision and adjusting clashes.2 Over time, discussion of fundamental principles, categories and beliefs which structure and define teaching can open the way to a very different conception of the tasks which are central.'”
CBE furniture link
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Smoothboard
iClass table
21st C Skills Wheel – Cushing Academy
“As Dr. Tracy notes, Cushing “has a tradition of embracing the best of the future. Our goal is nothing short of transforming secondary education across the country and around the world as we better prepare students for a new age of globalization and technological revolution.” With this in mind, our evolving wheel represents the skills we seek to instill in students throughout their Cushing experience in and out of the classroom; it provides the hub through which we create collaborative learning opportunities as we ready them for leadership in the 21 century.”