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The Horizon Report 2009K-12 Edition

Technologies on the Horizonwww.nmc.org/publications

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Seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching and learning.

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Technologies that are likely to be accepted in the mainstream of K-12 teaching and learning:

In the next year 2-3 years out 4-5 years out

Collaborative Environments

Cloud Computing Smart Objects

Online Communication

Tools

Mobiles The Personal Web

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Examples:

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Collaborative Environments

Features

• Multiple people can work within them synchronous / asynchronous

• Users can leave evidence of their thoughts and reflections of the thinking of others

• Users can support each other anytime/anywhere

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Relevance to Teaching and Learning• Foster teamwork and collaboration• Practice critical thinking in a more or less

public forum (benefit from seeing peers work and the critique of their own).

• Assessing constructivist learning goals made easier because the ability to archive conversations and versions of work.

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ToolsExamples:












ToolsFeatures• Widely used by professionals• Synchronous / Asynchronous• Text, Audio, Video• One-to-One, One-to Many, Many to Many• Allows dialog that is not bound by place or

time


ToolsRelevance to Teaching and LearningAllows students to…• Experience learning in multiple modes• Make connections with others around the

world• Share ideas with others• Access information and learn about

something at the most teachable of moments… when they are curious about it.

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Examples:














Features:• Distributing computing power, applications

and large systems among many machines• Inexpensive Data Storage• Applications can be ran on a low powered

browser ready device.• Shifting how we think about applications and

data storage.


Relevance to Teaching and Learning

• Provides students and teachers access to low cost alternative to desktop applications.

• Accessible anywhere

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iPhone


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Features:• Ability to record audio, video and images• Email• SMS• Gamining• GPS • Not just a phone, most applications available

have nothing to do with making a phone call.


Features:

• Internet Access “By 2020 most people in the world will be

using a mobile device as their primary means of connecting to the Internet.”

-Pew Internet & American Life Project


Relevance to Teaching and Learning:

• Always Available: Possibly what our vision of 1-to-1 computing will become.

• 3rd party applications create nearly infinite possibilities for education, networking and personal productivity.

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• Growing need for instruction in information/technology/visual literacy.

• Our students are different, but our underlying practices and materials are changing slowly.

• Little opportunities for students to engage in learning environments that incorporate real-life experiences.

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• Slow adoption of technologies in K-12 that have already been integrated in other segments.

• KEY CHALLENGE:

Learners have increasing options for learning, and most of those options are made available outside of the traditional K-12 system.

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