This report "examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in teaching, learning and inquiry . . ." An international body of experts (46 professionals representing 22 companies) noted the following trends & technologies:
TRENDS -- Listed by significance, according to the advisory board
- Education paradigms are shifting to include online learning, hybrid learning, and collaborative models.
- The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators.
- As the cost of technology drops and school districts revise and open up their access policies, it is becoming increasingly common for students to bring their own mobile devices.
- People expect to be able to work, learn and study whenever and wherever they want.
- Technology continues to profoundly affect the way we work, collaborate, communicate and succeed.
- There is a new emphasis in the classroom on more challenge-based, active elarning.
TECHNOLOGIES
Near-term Horizon -- Within the next 12 months
- Mobile Devices & Apps
- Tablet Computing
- Game-based learning
- Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) -- Cloud computing, mobile devices
- Augmented Reality (AR) -- "History and science museums use augmented reality in creative ways to show visitors the science behind a phenomena as it happens, or what a building looked like centuries ago as they view it through the camera on their smartphones or tables . . ."
- Natural User Interface -- "Allow computers to respond to gestures, motions of the body, facial expressions, voice, sound and other environmental cues . . .[They] are replacing the keyboard and mouse as the standard for computer/human interaction."
