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ICT Trends: Current and Future
The NMC Horizon Project scours the world for brilliant examples of ICT in education, creating easy to read yearly reports on the landscape of current, emerging and future technologies and their potential impact on and use in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in K-12 education environments.
NOTE: Read the 2009 report first and then read the rest in chronological order to see just how accurate their research on emergent and future technology trends is.
Download the reports NMC Horizon Reports here:
> 2009 K-12 Edition
> 2010 K-12 Edition
> 2011 K-12 Edition
> 2012 K-12 Edition
> 2013 K-12 Edition
NOTE: Read the 2009 report first and then read the rest in chronological order to see just how accurate their research on emergent and future technology trends is.
Download the reports NMC Horizon Reports here:
> 2009 K-12 Edition
> 2010 K-12 Edition
> 2011 K-12 Edition
> 2012 K-12 Edition
> 2013 K-12 Edition
Education Blogs
Langwitches by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
One of the best blogs you will ever read and the inspiration behind the launch of this website. This blog has been running for five years.
The Innovative Educator by Lisa Nielsen
A great blog by a US librarian / literacy coach / technology innovation manager / director of digital literacy and citizenship, full of a variety of innovative ideas and
thinking across a range of learning areas. Published in the New York Times and
The Huffington Post.
A great blog by a US librarian / literacy coach / technology innovation manager / director of digital literacy and citizenship, full of a variety of innovative ideas and
thinking across a range of learning areas. Published in the New York Times and
The Huffington Post.
On The Edge by Dr Silvana Meneghini
An education blog by Dr Silvana Meneghini, the Technology Coordinator at Graded School in São Paulo, Brazil, and PhD and a Masters Degree in Educational Technology graduate.
An education blog by Dr Silvana Meneghini, the Technology Coordinator at Graded School in São Paulo, Brazil, and PhD and a Masters Degree in Educational Technology graduate.
Mr G Online by Mark Gleeson
A blog by a teacher from Melbourne, Australia, who has been teaching for 26. The blog is jam packed full of ideas on integrating ICT into teaching and learning programs. This blog has been running for two years.
A blog by a teacher from Melbourne, Australia, who has been teaching for 26. The blog is jam packed full of ideas on integrating ICT into teaching and learning programs. This blog has been running for two years.
Also check out the following blog post about how schools can strategically plan their online presence: Creating a School Information Network Channel.
Educational Media
TED Talks
TED Talks are some of the most inspiration al videos you may ever watch. TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less) covering almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. TEDx Talks are independently ran events help share ideas in communities around the world. Click here to search the TED Talks database and view some notable talks below.
A TED Talk from Heidi Hayes Jacobs about strategic education:
A section of this website dedicated to a TEDx Talk by Paul Anderson about the parallels between video games and learning in the classroom, and how he adapted his teaching and learning program to design his classes as if they were a video game:
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