Emerging Technologies in Education

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Emerging Technologies in Education

• What Does the Future Hold?
• The Future is Now!

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Existing Technologies

• Already in use for
• commercial or scientific purposes
• social or recreational purposes
• Ubiquitous technology

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New Technologies

• Equipment /gadgets faster /more memory / more
  features / smaller
• More cooperative / collaborative / personal
  technology
• More sophisticated teaching, learning classroom
  management systems
• More user generated content

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Educational Technologies

• Social Computing
• virtual conferences
• virtual collaboration
• folsonomy folksomonies folsomonic
• (ex wikis)

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Educational Technologies

• Personal Broadcasting
• podcast podcasting
• web blogs blogs blogging
• video blogging vlodding

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Educational Technologies

• Games, educational  
• electronic games
• games gaming game play or gameplay
• operational gaming
• virtual reality games  
• computer games and education
• MOO Multiuser dimension, Object Oriented  
• MUDs Multi-user Dungeons  

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Educational Technologies

• Cell Phones
• cellular telephones
• handheld computers
• 3rd generation mobile telephone technology 3G
  3.5G
• SMS or short messaging service text messaging

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Educational Technologies

• Handheld Devices
• handheld computers
• personal computers
• Personal Digital Assistants or PDAs
• pen scanners
• tablet computers (or digitizing tablets)
• projectors

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Educational Technologies

• Augmented reality enhanced visualization
• 3-d visualization tools
• simulations
• Virtual environments
• Alternative reality

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Educational Technologies

• Context aware environments devices
• (dissolves boundries between people and
  computers)
• smart or intelligent Rooms

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Educational Technologies

• Virtual Learning Environments
• Examples BlackBoard, WebCT, etc.
• sometimes also called
• Learning Management System (LMS),
• Course Management System (CMS),
• Learning Content Management System (LCMS),
• Managed Learning Environment (MLE),
• Learning Support System (LSS) or
• Learning Platform (LP)

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Comparing Trends 2006 to 2008
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First Time K12 Horizon Report
Time to Adoption 1-2 Years Collaborative
Environments Online Communication Tools Time to
Adoption 2-3 Years Mobiles Cloud
Computing Smart Objects The Personal Web
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Gadgets, etc.

• miniaturized personal computers
• portable pen scanners pen-scanners
• 3-D photocopiers creating virtual models
• (rapid prototyping machines)
• better, brighter, lighter, less expensive
  video-data projectors
• Smart phones with increased WWW and multimedia
  capabilities, 3G network, etc.

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GadgetsMobile Devices

• iPods (started the trend)
• iPhones
• smart phones
• wearable computing

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GadgetsMobile Devices
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Gadgets Handheld Computers
netbooks
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Gadgets Handheld Computers
eBook readers
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More computers
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More computers
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More computers
Palm Treo keyboard (wireless workstation)
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Handheld Peripherals

• Handheld scanners

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Rapid Prototyping Machines

• a.k.a. 3-D Photocopiers

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Handheld Projectors

• Cellphone / projector
• http//www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/hands-on-with-t
  exas-instruments-cellphone-projector/

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Smart or Intelligent Classrooms
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Emerging Technologies

• Information compiled by
• Reference Services
• University Libraries
• November 2006, Updated October 2008