Sunday, August 12, 2012

Keeping Up With Emerging Technology in Education

 Each year the Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on K-12 Education  and creative expression over the next one to five years.

The areas of emerging technology cited for 2012 are:

Time to adoption: One Year or Less      Mobile Devices and Apps 
                                                                  Tablet Computing
                             Two to Three Years   Game Based Learning
                                                                  Personal Learning Environments
                              Four to Five Years    Augmented Reality
                                                                  Natural User Interfaces

You might like to subscribe to the  NMC Horizon EdTech Weekly App.($2.99)"It delivers curated, relevant, and timely edtech projects and news to your iPad or iPhone weekly. It also includes the entire NMC Horizon Report series on emerging technology across various learning sectors, and a rich, searchable, re-mixable database of educational technology and innovation resources."

If you are interested in finding additional up to date information on the latest research into the use of technology within schooling, I recommend that you subscribe to DERN (Digital Education Research Network) which was developed and is managed by ACER .




Leah also alerted me to a great website  that will help you stay updated called Edudemic.She follows it on Twitter.



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