SILENT BLOG: Downes Future of Learning - A summary - The Diigo Meta page

• 03 Jan 09
  

  Susan McClements

  Technology
  Regarding technology, Downes mentions a number of things that affect learning
  
  * increased bandwidth,
  * increased processing power (virtualization, cloud computing),
  * increased storage capabilities,
  * software (web-based apps, more specialized and customizable operating environments),
  * specialization in computing and computers; we will see computers as devices for specific purposes (gadgets like e-readers, writing tablets, GPS, RFID), hence ubiquitous computing,
  * increasing use of widgets aggregated on pages as PageFlakes, iGoogle, or Netvibes
  
  Furtermore, he talks about educational technology, and mentions PADs (personal access devices; iPhone, small laptops, tables PCs, etc.) to become increasingly popular tools for learning. Tools will become portable, personal, and global, and we will see better presentation software, gaming and simulation, conferencing and interaction tools.
  
  It is important to think not simply about how these technologies will operate individually but rather about how they will operate in combination.
  
  Each person will have what may be thought of as a ‘profile’ of their own art, music and other media, which they have created themselves or with friends, along with records of their activities in various games and simulations (we see things like this already with applications like Launchcast) that take place both on and off line. (Breeding, 2005)
  
  Tools are becoming more sophisticated on the one hand, needing professionals to handle them, and more available for the masses, allowing anyone to contribute;
  
  Thus there is, at any given time, a professional educational content community that creates high-end and custom educational content and a non-professional community that creates (relatively) low-end and more personalized educational content.
  
  This is a trend that is likely to continue, though it is also likely that the line dividing the professional from the non-professional community will become increasingly elusive over time.
  
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