challenging academic experiences to achieve success in a wireless technology rich culture (Hennessy, Harrison & Wamakote, 2010). The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) developed a plan to meet the “2008 ISTE National Technology Standards (NETS-T) number 5 “Engaging in professional growth and leadership” (Oliver, 2010). The Georgia K–12 technology plan mandated the expansions of information and information technology (desktop, wireless technology, handhelds tools, and portable video players)
towards technology play a vital role in adopting a set method in determining how to instruct with wireless laptops (Kervin & Mantei, 2010). Alternatively, the way teachers perceive technology will hypothesize a key determinant of the nature of this quantitative, pre-experimental study. In this study, the reason why teachers do not routinely and effectively use available technology such as wireless laptops in K–12 classrooms will be examined. To take full advantage of technology, while reducing
The lack of training, time, and support contributes to teachers’ attitudes or hesitation in using wireless technology for educational purposes (Gruba, Clark, Ng, & Wells, 2009; Koehler & Mishra, 2009; Phelps & Maddison, 2008; Shuler, 2009; Ursavas & Karal, 2009). In addition, a lack of teacher training also hampers the necessary shift from traditional basic skills, reviews, and daily fact drills to an atmosphere that encourages problem solving skills and research-oriented learning (Coppola, 2009)
The theoretical framework for integrating wireless laptops involves the theory of social constructivism (SC). Dewey (1916/1997), Papert (1993/2000), Piaget (1932/1997), and Vygotsky (1978/1981) are the noted developers of the SC theory. The theory of SC underlies building collaborative relationships between teachers and their students. Dewey (1916/1997), SC suggests that teachers facilitate and observe their students. The focus must convey on understanding the vast amenities that technology
integration of wireless computing, educators and policymakers are reevaluating ways to incorporate technology tools into the grade level performance standards without separating the two educational standards (Collins & Halverson, 2009; Weston & Bain, 2010). Presently, students and teachers at the rural school district under review have the ability to transmit information through wireless technological resources. Francis and Mishra (2008) explained that teaching-learning with wireless computing effectively
I. INTRODUCTION A WSN is a self-directed set of portable or movable systems that communicate over relatively bandwidth constrained wireless links. As it is a decentralized network, all the network related activities such as, including topology realization, routing, event delivery, etc., must be incorporated into the mobile nodes. In recent years, the internet users have drastically increased, thereby the demand for real time and Quality of Service (QoS) constraints also needs to be improved [1]
lifelong social learners. The past years emphasized ways societal changed from passive information consumers to producers of information and consumer who have become social content prosumers (Specht, 2009). Therefore, training to integrate one-to-one computing will focus on employing social content, enriching activities, pedagogical approaches and innovative technology knowledge with the existing curricular. On... ... middle of paper ... ...man prospective to advance through constructive use of communication
advancement of technology for K–12 students aligned to cross curriculum strategies and activities through developing an online support network (OSN). Designing a teacher professional learning through curriculum integration strategies would precede wireless laptop classroom integration, create access for educators to share and plan new academic tasks collaboratively (Oliver, 2010). For instance, a study on OSN conducted by Stewart, Bachman and Babb (2009) promoted online teacher training technology
to appear everywhere and anywhere. Instead of using desktop computers, ubiquitous computing made users to use computing concepts in any devices, anywhere, in different formats. Normally ubiquitous computing is a wireless technology, which can be connected and can be accessed all around the world. As explained before Ubiquitous computing can occur anywhere, it may have multiple end users who will have multiple needs. To satisfy their multiple needs there should be multiple user interfaces which
utilization by legacy Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is determined by its Round Trip Time (RTT) dependent mechanisms for flow control and loss recovery. The RTT estimation does not always reflect actual network conditions especially in case of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). It can in turn influence the mechanisms falsely. This article proposes a Cross-Layer mechanism between Medium Access Control (MAC) and TCP for correcting RTT estimation at sender and subsequent TCP actions for better performance