I recently read The NMC Horizon Report: 2011 K-12 Edition. It is a publication produced by the New Media Consortium. They examine emerging technologies impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within the environment of pre-college education.
Over the next few weeks I will be commenting on the five trends they have cited as key drivers of technology adoptions for the period of 2011 through 2016:
1. The abudance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the Internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators.
2. As IT support becomes more and more decentralized, the technologies we use are increasingly based not on school servers, but in the cloud.
3. Technolgoy continues to profoundly affect the way we work, collaborate, communicate, and succeed.
4. People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want to.
5. The perceived value of innovation and creativity is increasing.
