Today, we started out Green Tech Class by watching a video about education called Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom by Alan November. This video was based on the idea that teachers would step out of the position of control in the classroom, and they would become an equal with their students. But they would still act as a guide. In the video a method where each student had a job. For example, one job would be researcher and another could be recording information and experimentation. After the video, we talked about using this teaching method at our school. Dr. Bill was saying that if we start it here then we can slowly move it to the rest of HPA and possibly expand further. I feel like we already use a variation of this method in this class, but I think this would be a big step to the future in education if we could spread it to the rest of the school.
Deliverables:
RFID: My deliverables for this project still have not changed. It will hopefully continue past the energy lab to the point where HPA is using RFID as a security system. On a smaller scale, we hope to soon use the RFID system in the Energy Lab. Right now, we are working on linking RFID with filemaker so we can record everyone that was in the building and how long they were there. Eventually, when we know how to do so, we plan to make it a part of the security system by using the kit as locks and keys, but we are not at that level yet. We could replace all of the locks on the dorms and class rooms with these RFID readers and all of the keys with the tags. We could also have a camera by some, if not all, of the readers to ensure that no one had stolen the tag. We were also talking about using this RFID as a main gate at the entrance in front of the school. I hope to start working on this project along with the state.xml.
State xml: This project is just learning about the system that controls the Energy Lab. By learning about this, Lucas, Awe and I will serve as the student guru's of the system. Independently or with my group, I hope to expand on this project. I could make my own page that would control when certain things turn on or off at a set time. I can also do a project where I monitor whats going on with the lights or something on elab2.hpa.edu, and I'll be able to tell if something is wrong with the building. By learning all of this I could be one of two people that really understood the guts of the building. If someone had a problem and Bill wasn't around, I would be the one to go to. I am really interested in just learning more about what I can do with this.
cbradley
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