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Horizon Report on Emerging
Technologies
New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
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The 2007 Horizon Report "seeks to identify and describe
emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching,
learning, or creative expression within higher education."
Some key trends that the report calls attention to include:
- The environment of higher education is changing rapidly..
- Increasing globalization is changing the way we work, collaborate,
and communicate.
- Information literacy increasingly should not be considered
a given.
- Academic review and faculty rewards are increasingly out
of sync with new forms of scholarship.
- The notions of collective intelligence and mass amateurization
are pushing the boundaries of scholarship.
- Students' views of what is and what is not technology are
increasingly different from those of faculty.
Research indicates that each of the following six areas will
have significant impact on college and university campuses within
the next five years.
- Time-to-adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
- User-Created Content
- Social Networking
- Time-to-adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
- Mobile Phones
- Virtual Worlds
- Time-to-adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
- The New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication
- Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming
Complete
Results [PDF]
Digital Media and Learning
The John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation |
The MacArthur Foundation launched its five-year, $50 million
digital
media and learning initiative in 2006 to help determine
how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn,
play, socialize, and participate in civic life. Answers are
critical to developing educational and other social institutions
that can meet the needs of this and future generations. The
initiative is both marshaling what is already known about the
field and seeding innovation for continued growth.
On this website
you can find:
Social Networking Websites
and Teens: An Overview
Pew Internet &
American Life Project |
This
paper reports on the wide use of "social networks"
such as MySpace or Facebook
by teenagers. Based on survey results, over half of the respondents
said they had a profile and slightly less than half (48%) said
they frequented the sites every day. The vast majority of them
use the sites to "manage their friendships" or in
other words to communicate with friends. This communication,
as the report makes clear, takes the form of everything from
blog entries and comments to in-network email.
Our Voices, Our Future
Student and Teacher Views on Science, Technology, & Education
National Report on NetDay Speak Up Survey |
562,000 K-12 students and 26,000 teachers from all 50 states
Major Themes of National Findings
- Students are setting trends with their use of technology
both in school and out of school. They are innovative users
of technology, adopting new technologies to support their
learning and their lifestyles.
- Communication is a key motivator for students and drives
their use of technology for learning and for personal use.
The result is an explosion of communications tool use and
the desire to transcend communications obstacles. Sixth grade
is the tipping point when students begin to show their enthusiasm
for using technology for communication.
- Younger students are continuing to adopt more sophisticated
technologies in the footsteps of their older siblings. Their
use of devices designed for specific purposes suggest increased
availability as well as increased sophistication of young
students.
- Students and teachers want access to up-to-date technology
tools at school and they want it to be available when they
need it. Their main frustrations result from restrictions
to technology use for learning tasks.
- Teachers' professional use of technology is approaching
a comfort level but is not keeping up with the advances in
how kids are using technology. Despite conventional wisdom,
our data does not show significant differences between how
younger teachers and older teachers are approaching their
technology use.
- Students are strong believers in the power of technology
to enrich their learning experiences. They have ideas about
their futures that include using technology tools for learning
and preparing themselves for a competitive job market.
Complete
Results [PDF]
Emerging Technologies and
Neomillennial Learning Styles
Chris
Dede, the Timothy E. Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies
at the Harvard Graduate School of Education |
In this January
2007 podcast interview, Chris
Dede explains the concept and key characteristics of "neomillennials."
He also highlights the transformative effect of emerging immersive
learning environments on higher education pedagogy and discusses
the importance of faculty development in relation to these developments.
Finally, he briefly touches on the National Science Foundation's
cyberinfrastructure initiative.
Listen
to the interview...
The Student's Perspective
Carie Windham
North Carolina State Universi
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Carie Windham is a 2006 graduate of the North Carolina State
University where she majored in history. She was active in student
government, the University Honors Program, and the Center for
Student Leadership, Ethics, and Public Service. While at NC
State, she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi
and recipient of the Park Scholarship. When she was not Googling
her own name or instant messaging her friend, she spent her
free time volunteering at Noah's Landing, a nonprofit nature
center. Carie is currently in graduate school in Northern Ireland.
Read
about the impact technology has on Carie and her friends
as students.
Listen
to a January 2007 interview with Carrie on how the Net Generation
views and uses technology...
View the PowerPoint presentation from a January 2007 conference presentation by Carrie on what makes these current College students tick, what ticks them off, and what faculty and administrators need to know to bridge the generational divide.
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