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Horizon Report 2012: Emerging Technologies & Trends

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2012-horizon-report-K12.pdf

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

1. Education paradigms are shifting to include online learning, hybrid learning, and collaborative models.
2. The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators.
3. 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.
4. People expect to be able to work, learn and study whenever and wherever they want.
5. Technology continues to profoundly affect the way we work, collaborate, communicate and succeed.
6. There is a new emphasis in the classroom on more challenge-based, active elarning.

TECHNOLOGIES

Near-term Horizon -- Within the next 12 months

1. Mobile Devices & Apps
2. Tablet Computing

Mid-term Horizon -- Two to three years away from widespread adoption

1. Game-based learning
2. Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) -- Cloud computing, mobile devices

Far-term Horizon -- Four to five years away from widespread adoption

• 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."

Technology Survey 2013: Cincinnati Public Schools & Mason City Schools