Emerging Information Technologies

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Emerging Information Technologies
What? and So What?
ASCUE 2008
steve_at_steveknode.com drknode_at_gmail.com
www.steveknode.com
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RFID Chips
Knowledge Management
Collaborative Computing
Expert Systems
Facebook
DSS
Twitter
Avatars
Ambient Intelligence
Wearable Computers
Neural Networks
Second Life
Genetic Algorithms
Robotics
Ubiquitous Computing
Social Networking
Wi-Fi
Virtual Reality
Podcasts
LinkedIn
Fuzzy Logic
Semantic Web
Advanced Simulation
BlueTooth
Web 2.0
Virtual Leader
INTELLIGENT AGENTS
Wireless
PDA
MySpace
MEMS
Nanotechnology
Speech Recognition
Data Mining
Wiki
Virtual Teams
Natural Language Processing
Artificial Life
embedded sensors
Distance Learning
Cloud Computing
BLOGS
www2
Broad Bandwidth
Speech Synthesis
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Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now,
bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head,behind
Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows,the
only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he
feels that there really is another way, if only
he could stop bumping for a moment and think of
it. --A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
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The Situation (What?)

• Mega Trends in Technology
• Information Overload
• 8-20 Billion Webpages (perhaps 500 billion!)
• Growing Rapidly, global contributors
• Accelerating Change
• Exponential, not linear
• More progress in the first 15 years of this
  century than in the entire previous century!
• Pervasive Computing
• Chips, sensors everywhere
• Wireless, networked to share information
• Computers evolving to assistants

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The Situation (What?)

• Trends in Technology (web 2.0)
• Everybody creates video/mashups
• Personal content
• Some informative, some entertainment
• Combinations of text, video, audio
• Collaboration technologies on the rise
• Easy to use, free
• Edit group documents, hold meetings, collaborate
• Social networks the norm
• Penetration of broadband
• Ubiquitous internet access
• Always connected

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WEB 2.0 --- The WhatThe Connected Web

• Videocasts
• Wikis
• Blogs
• RSS
• Podcasts
• Social Networking
• Expertise location and sharing
• Mashups
• Virtual Worlds
• Instant mobile updates (e.g., Twitter)

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Contributing Factors

• Broadband internet access more common
• Up 300 percent since 2002, according to a new
  analysis from Scarborough Research.
• Collaboration becomes a necessity
• Everything complex, team approach needed
• Constant connectivity the norm
• Always on, always interacting
• Everybody is an author
• Mashups easier to do, more common

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Describing the Net Gen Student

• Never known life without the internet
• Google babies
• Information is found online, not in libraries
• First source is Wikipedia
• Anywhere, anytime
• Seemlessly move between real and virtual
• Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, 2nd life
• Sometimes the same person, sometimes a different
  personna
• Constant contact/feedback
• Twitter, blogs, social networks, blogs
• Collaboration/create the norm
• Wikis, videos, podcasts

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Describing the Net Gen Student
The Online Computer Library Center (OCLC)
recently published report highlighted college
students perceptions of libraries and
information resources. Among student
respondents 72 percent of college students
ranked search engines as their first choice for
finding information 2 percent use library Web
sites as the starting point for an information
search 67 percent learn about electronic
information resources from friends (when
excluding search engines) 53 percent believe
information from search engines is as trustworthy
as library information 36 percent use
librarians to cross-reference information for
validation and 80 percent use other Web sites
with similar information as a validation tool,
slightly more than those who use instructors for
validation (78 percent).
Source How Choice, Co-creation, and Culture are
Changing What it Means to be Net Savvy,
Downloaded from http//connect.educause.edu/Libr
ary/EDUCAUSEQuarterly/HowChoiceCoCreationandCul/4
0008
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The Implications (So What?)

• Significant impacts on teaching
• New modes and models of research and scholarship
  necessary
• More collaboration, alternate modes of
  collaboration
• New delivery requirements for courses
• Available at any time and place, any device
• Alternate forms of interaction
• Collaborative efforts in virtual environments
• Simulations, games, immersive environments

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Shifting Educational Landscape

• From To
• periodic continuous
• individual group
• theory practice
• content context
• text multimedia
• consumer co-producer
• unimodal multi-modal
• observation immersion

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The Solution (?) Proactive approach, not Reactive
approach

• Keep Up
• Search, sift, synthesize, spread information
• Automate finding information (e.g., Google
  alerts, RSS, specialized search engines)
• Encourage experimentation collaboration
• Web 2.0 technologies (e.g., social networks,
  wikis, podcasts, webinars)
• Foster Innovation
• Maintain early adopter attitude

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Whats coming (?)

• Web 1.0 The Web
• Connects Information
• Web 2.0 The Social Web
• Connects People
• Web 3.0 The Semantic Web
• Connects Knowledge
• Web 4.0 The Ubiquitous Web
• Connects Intelligence

Source Semantic Wave 2008, downloaded from
http//www.project10x.com/
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Some Examples

• Virtual Eve A virtual teacher that can pick up
  body language and facial expressions like a
  real teacher to interact and to ensure they are
  holding the attention of students. Virtual tutor
  can tell if the child is frustrated, angry or
  confused by the on-screen teaching session and
  can adapt the tutoring.
• Bettys Instructional Technology Blog Sharing
  ideas about instructional technology via a blog
• Top Health 2.0 Apps A site which explains
  several uses of social networks to provide health
  data

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Some Examples

• Visual Elements Periodic Table arts and science
  collaborative project from the RSC which explores
  the diversity of elements in a unique and
  innovative manner.
• Virtual Leader simulation simulation program
  which teaches leadership using artificial
  intelligence, virtual reality interface.
• Wiki Replaces Textbook Boston College professor
  uses wiki to develop, with student collaboration,
  his own inclass materials and exa
• Chacha A site designed to provide answers to
  any question for free

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What are the roadblocks?

• Requires a change in culture
• change in thinking
• change in methods
• change in leaders(?)
• Requires new learning
• familiarization with technology
• experimentation/trials
• finding key killer applications/examples

? Steve Knode, PhD
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Summary

• Rapidly changing world due to information
  overload, exponential pace of change, and Web
  2.0 technologies
• New teaching paradigms needed
• Proactive approach recommended
• Roadblocks are to be overcome

? Steve Knode, PhD
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Questions?
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Backup and supplementary vugraphs
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New Report!
Sourcehttp//www.emc.com/news/in_depth_archive/10
192000_berkeley.jsp
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Information Overload

• A weekday edition of the New York Times contains
  more information than the average person was
  likely to come across in a lifetime in
  seventeenth-century England.

--R.S. Wurman, Information Anxiety
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Exponential Growth
Source http//www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?
m1
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Miniscule RFID Chips
chips
Source http//www.hitachi.com/New/cnews/030902.ht
ml
September 2, 2003
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Even Smaller RFID Chips!
Source http//www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fict
ion-News.asp?NewsNum939
Feb 2007
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Must Read

• The Diverse and Exploding Digital Universe
• Emerging Technologies for Learning
• Disruptive Civil Technologies
• Being Human Human-Computer Interaction in the
  Year 2020
• Are You Ready for the Semantic Wave?
• Horizon Report 2008

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Must Watch

• Visions of the Future The Intelligence
  Revolution
• Visions of the Future The Biotech Revolution
• Visions of the Future The Quantum Revolution

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Must Hear

• Leading Ahead of the Curves
• Here Comes Everybody
• The Impact of Wikipedia

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Must Visit

• Ray Kurzweils site
• Whats Next
• ReadWrite Web

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Must Try

• Twine Semantic web application that builds
  your ball of twine for you
• Powerset Answers questions in the manner they
  were asked, not just weblinks
• ChaCha Gives answers to almost any query via
  phone or text
• 20 Questions Using the old game of 20 questions,
  a neural network guesses your object

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Links Summary 1

• Twine http//www.twine.com/about
• Powerset http//www.powerset.com/
• Emerging Technologies for Learning
  http//partners.becta.org.uk/index.php?sectionrh
  rid13768
• The Intelligence Revolution http//video.google.c
  om/videoplay?docid80785608139596344
• Chacha https//www.chacha.com/
• 20 Questions http//www.20q.net/
• Piggy Bank http//simile.mit.edu/wiki/Piggy_Bank
• How Choice, Co-creation, and Culture are Changing
  What It Means to be Net Savvy
• http//connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSEQuar
  terly/HowChoiceCoCreationandCul/40008

• Exploding Digital Universe http//www.emc.com/col
  lateral/analyst-reports/diverse-exploding-digital-
  universe.pdf
• Disruptive Civil Technologies http//www.dni.gov/
  nic/confreports_disruptive_tech.html
• Are You Ready for the Semantic Wave
  http//project10x.com/index.php
• Horizon Report 2008
• http//www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf
• Emerging Technologies for learning, Vol 3 (2008)
  http//partners.becta.org.uk/index.php?sectionrh
  rid13768
• Semantic Wave 2008 Report
• http//www.project10x.com/

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Links Summary 2

• Modern Man (George Carlin)
• http//vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseactionvids
  .individualVideoID3477370
• Whats Next http//www.nowandnext.com/
• Kurzweils site http//www.kurzweilai.net/
• Visions of the Future The Intelligence
  Revolution http//video.google.com/videoplay?docid
  80785608139596344
• Visions of the Future The Intelligence
  Revolution http//video.google.com/videoplay?docid
  -5040988246744133463
• Visions of the Future The Intelligence
  Revolution http//video.google.com/videoplay?docid
  1640775900931232990

• Here Comes Everybody http//itc.conversationsnetw
  ork.org/shows/detail3596.html
• The Impact of Wikipedia http//itc.conversationsn
  etwork.org/shows/detail1644.html
• IbreadCrumbs http//www.ibreadcrumbs.com/
• Shift Happens http//www.youtube.com/watch?vP7J_
  ereCiTofeaturerelated
• ReadWrite Web http//www.readwriteweb.com/

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News and Events
Source http//www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/1
9782/?af
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News and Events
Source http//www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/
19747/?nlid686
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News and Events
Source http//dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/01/18/s
mart-sticky-notes.html
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News and Events
Source http//www.itnews.com.au/News/72039,swarm
-robotics-work-hundreds-of-robots-into-one.aspx
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News and Events
Source http//www.readwriteweb.com/archives/good
will_using_web_technologies.php
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News and Events
Source http//www.computerworld.com/action/artic
le.do?commandviewArticleBasictaxonomyId16artic
leId9030802intsrchm_topic
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News and Events
Source http//itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows
/detail718.html
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