Issues and Trends in Educational Technology

Dr. Najmi Junaid

Course # 580411

Facing the Future with Emerging Technology

Riding the Waves: Facing the Future with Emerging Technology

Twenty Trends: The Balancing Act

– Trend 1: Mix and Match - Balance Tools and Spaces

Reading WITH Content Writing WITH Content Technology Tools and Learning Spaces Example: Use books,

audiobooks, maps and technology together such as Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.Example: The Geo-Literacy Project

Trend 2: Open Source Software - Balance Quality with Cost

Freedom to share and use Open Source Links

Examples: TuxPaint, CMAP

Trend 3: Freeware Enhancements - Balance Loyalty with Cost

Free but proprietary Window's Genuine Advantage Program -

PhotoStory, MovieMaker Apple Software Program - iPhoto, iMovie Example: Photostory 3 for Windows is only

available on Windows.

Trend 4: Starters - Balance Structure with Creativity

Pathfinders WebQuests Templates PowerPoint Sidekicks Photo Starters Example: Photo Starters that provide

starters on two viewpoints (see right) Example: PowerPoint Sidekicks

Trend 5: The Social Web -

Balance Academic Rigor with Engagement

Social Intelligence Social Technology Identify standards-based, engaging objects for discussion Example: Social Intelligence by Daniel Goleman Example: The Smithsonian Encyclopedia of Life is a

collaborative project by the US National Museum of Natural History to document the earth's diversity by scientists and citizens of Earth described by E.O. Wilson in The Creation. A related project is Consortium for the Barcode of Life. Check out the Barcode Blog.

Trend 6: Visual Literacy

- Balance Testing with Individual Needs Digital Photography Butterflies and Moths of North America Grinnell Glacier First Gov - data, photographs Google Earth Wikipedia - Retreat of Glaciers National Park Service

Trend 7: Email Communication

- Balance Skills with Ethics

Content Areas Standards ISTE NETS Ethics Across the Curriculum

Trend 8: High Tech Gadgets

- Balance Cool with Practical

Do I really need this? How does it compliment what I already have? Example: 3D Visor Example: Celestron SkyScout

Trend 9: Blogs for Everything

- Balance Novelty with Purpose What are really effective applications of

blogs? Event Blogs - turtle nesting, conferences Blooks - using a blog to post a book for

comments – Web 2.0 Booklet

Example: Plants that Bite Back

Trend 10: RSS

- Balance Info Need with Info Overload

RSS Feeds for news, blogs, podcasts, videocasts

Example: Bloglines Eduscapes

Trend 11: Wikis -

Balance Authority with Collaborative Ownership

Wikipedia Example: Nile Kinnick Example: Wikispaces - Digital Photography

Trend 12: Participatory Projects

Balance Primary Sources with Quality Info Oral Histories Family Histories Local Histories Plant and Animal Studies Human Genome Project Example: Pearl Harbor Survivor Stories

Trend 13: Collaborative Writing

Balance Individual and Group Authoring Google's Docs and Spreadsheets (Writely) Thinkature

Trend 14: Crowd Sourcing

Balance Quality and Junk Move from in-house to outsourcing to

crowdsourcing The Rise of Crowdsourcing

Trend 15: Simulations & Gaming

Balance Motivation with Time & Cost Immerse Learners Rules, Roles, and Responsibilities Content Knowledge Consequences Intrinsic Motivation Example: Knowledge Matters

Trend 16: Personalize, Customize, Folksonomy

Balance Standards with Evolution

Example: LibraryThing Example: Pandora

Trend 17: Desktop vs Network vs Web-based Applications

Balance Setting with Security Google Earth RSS Readers Databases and Stand-Alone Apps Example: Reunion, Heredis, Roots Magic,

Family Atlas (Gedcom file)

Trend 18: Multimedia

Balance Access with Bandwidth Accessing, Creating, Sharing Example: Can I Have a Word? Example: Podcasting: Young Hoosiers

Trend 19: Interactive Whiteboards Apps

Balance Cost with Use Example: National Gallery of Art Example: Grapher Example: Read about Chinese letters

Beyond the Great Mountains and use the Calligraphy tools to learn Japanese. Compare it with Korean.

Trend 20: Virtual Social Worlds

Balance Real with Virtual Life Second Life - 911 Second Life - International Space Station &

Planetarium Second Life - Library Example: Second Life

References

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