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mikecaulfieldTop Challenge: "There is a growing need for formal instruction
in key new skills, including information literacy,
visual literacy, and technological literacy. The
skills involved in writing and research have
changed from those required even a few years
ago. Students need to be technologically adept,
to be able to collaborate with peers all over the
world, to understand basic content and media
design, and to understand the relationship between
apparent function and underlying code in
the applications they use daily." -
Susan WaterworthYou should all read this; it is one of the most relevant and specific articles I have found. Unfortunately because it is a pdf instead of a web page it cannot be highlighted. There are links here to LOTS of examples of these technologies being used by students.
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Cherice MontgomeryTrends include mobiles, cloud computing, the personal web, semantic-aware applications, and smart objects.
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amy monaghanThe annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a long-running qualitative research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations. The 2009 Horizon Report is the sixth annual report in the series. The report is produced again in 2009 as a collaboration between the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE program.
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Kent GerberJohnson, L., Levine, A., & Smith, R. (2009). The 2009 Horizon Report. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.
Emerging Technologies that will have the most effect on higher education. the six selected areas for 2009 — mobile devices, cloud computing, geo-everything,
the personal web, semantic-aware applications, and smart objects. Created by Educause Learning Initiative and New Media Consortium. -
Lennie Symesvia http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=56860
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