This Collaborative Web is the archive of our collaboration for our Scenario 2012: Global Transport Project during Spring 2002

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Global Transport: A Reporter's Reflections

Ten years ago, this reporter attended one of the nation's leading educational technology conferences: NECC, the National Educational Computing Conference.

While there, I had the opportunity to talk with several participants on the issue of technology in the classroom. When asked to write a column on this year's prominent educational projects, I couldn't help but search through the archives and find the old "digital video tapes". I dusted off the camera and hoped that it still worked. What I really found amazing, was that the predictions of the people I talked to ten years ago were so accurate.

The group you'll hear from is a team of multi-age, multi-geographic kids. This is nothing out of the ordinary in today's education world, but the work of this particular team reflects the predictions of so many years ago, perfectly.

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June 25, 2002
Continuing research and matching prediction pieces with my current interviews of the four students working on the Global Transport project.

I'm finding some incredible matches and what's more fascinating is that my interviewees have never seen or heard the prediction pieces from so many years ago. And yet, they are predictions proven.

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Matches for the magazine page:
Derrel (personal omnipurpose handhelds) = Bill
Don (screens everywhere and in home, voice activation) = Linda
Barb (virtual reality glasses) = Frank
Teresa ( ) =

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Reporting focus...

Don: big screen (school and home), voice transcription,

Barb: glasses with projection,

Derrel: keicon (phone/computer, omnipurpose pda,

Teresa: fewer days at school, real issues, guidance counselors

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