Emerging Technology Report

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Emerging Technology Report

• Hot Technologies

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Nimble Press

• CoSN Emerging Technologies Committee
• NetDay Speak Up Day
• Thin Client _at_ School
• Teach the Teachers Technology
• Smart Valley PC Day and NetDay
• greenwood_at_nimble-press.com

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Applications of Hot Tech

• Applications of emerging technologies and how
  they will change education to promote
• higher-order thinking
• authentic learning
• improved decision making

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Whats Hot in Tech?

• What is it?
• How does it work?
• Who is doing it today?
• Where do I find out more?

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Which Hot Tech Matters?

• Addresses major challenges
• Transformative, makes a fundamental change
• Feasibleis it cost effective or cost
  prohibitive?

Source 3M Corp. cms.3m.com/cms/ES/es/1-2/izrFiFU
/view.jhtml
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Change Instruction

• Technologies that change the instructional
  process and promote authentic learning
  activities.
• Not limited to classroom, but open to instruction
  that is virtual, collaborative, and experiential.

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Improve Assessment

• Technologies that improve assessment and
  evaluation.
• At all levels of the organization.
• Facilitate data analysis and dissemination.
• Students, teachers, parents, administrators, and
  other stakeholders.

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Diverse Learning Styles

• Technologies that a ddress diverse learning
  styles and student needs.
• Assistive technologies that have been developed
  for students with particular needs
• Engage students in different ways to promote
  learning.

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Build Community

• Build community in the school environment
• Beyond pushing out a broad message to providing
  individualized, on-demand information
• Improve interaction

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Improve Efficiency

• Improve the efficiency of school administration
• Suggestions GIS school bus routing, hallway PDA
  discipline, handheld teacher appraisal, automated
  class scheduling systems, etc.

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Whats Hot in Tech?

• What is it?
• How does it work?
• Who is doing it today?
• Where do I find out more?