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Articles on Emerging Technologies in Higher Education and Web 2.0

What is Web 2.0? by Tim O'Reilly
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Web 1.0		Web 2.0
DoubleClick	-->	Google AdSense
Ofoto	-->	Flickr
Akamai	-->	BitTorrent
mp3.com	-->	Napster
Britannica Online	-->	Wikipedia
personal websites	-->	blogging
evite	-->	upcoming.org and EVDB
domain name speculation	-->	search engine optimization
page views	-->	cost per click
screen scraping	-->	web services
publishing	-->	participation
content management systems	-->	wikis
directories (taxonomy)	-->	tagging ("folksonomy")
stickiness	-->	syndication

Horizon Report

The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium (NMC)’s Horizon Project, a five-year qualitative research effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations. The 2008 Horizon Report, the fifth in this annual series, is produced as a collaboration between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE program.

The technologies featured in the 2008 Horizon Report are placed along three adoption horizons that represent what the Advisory Board considers likely timeframes for their entrance into mainstream use for teaching, learning, or creative applications. The
first adoption horizon assumes the likelihood of entry within the next year; the second, within two to three years; and the third, within four to five years.

Two technologies are placed on the first adoption horizon, grassroots video and collaboration webs, are already in use on many campuses.

Applications of mobile broadband and data mashups, both on the mid-term horizon, are evident in organizations at the leading edge of technology adoption, and are beginning to appear at many institutions.

Educational uses of the two topics on the far-term horizon, collective intelligence and social operating systems, are understandably rarer; however, there are examples in the worlds of commerce, industry and entertainment that hint at
coming use in academia within four to five years.

http://www.nmc.org/news/nmc/2008-horizon-report and http://www.nmc.org/keyword/horizon-project and http://horizonproject.wikispaces.com/

Virtual Learning Blog by Naill Sclater
http://sclater.com/blog/

We developed a model for reflection, derived from exercises with the workshop participants and systematically enhanced by our tutor consultants. This can be used to help design reflective questions, and to mark them. Reflection can be an iterative process involving different stages which can be at a basic level or deeper. It normally starts with a basic observation of an incident, you might then notice the effects, report how that impacts on you, identify your own position and look at how you can improve.

Marc Prensky Adopt and Adapt: Shaping Tech for the Classroom by Marc Prensky December 2, 2005

Twenty-first-century schools need twenty-first-century technology.

Illustration by Bill Duke

The biggest question about technology and schools in the twenty-first century is not so much "What can it do?" but, rather, "When will it get to do it?" We all know life will be much different by 2100. Will school? How close will we be to Edutopia? First, it helps to look at the typical process of technology adoption (keeping in mind, of course, that schools are not typical of anything.) It's typically a four-step process: Dabbling. Doing old things in old ways. Doing old things in new ways. Doing new things in new ways.

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From Marc's Blog:

"Too many of today’s adults are of the opinion that their children’s education should remain exactly as it was when they were educated in a period before digital technology, the Internet, and other twenty-first century innovations. Unfortunately, this attitude, if implemented, prepares our children not for the future they will face in their lifetimes, but only for the past." - http://www.marcprensky.com/blog/archives/2008_08.html

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Popular Articles by Marc Prensky

Digital Natives article in PDF format from Educause.edu, part 1 of 2.

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants in PDF format, is part 2 of 2.

Four Things Good Teachers Do to Get Students Really Involved in Projects article online.

1. Make the Final Product Shareable
2. Give Projects, not Assignments
3. Encourage students to use popular technologies they are familiar with
4. Give the Students Options!

Resources or tools help create interactive content

See Laura Sederberg's Pageflakes homepage for links to current Web 2.0 Technologies.

• Hot Potatoes
• StudyMate and Respondus
• Wordle.net
• Wikis and Blogs
• YouTube and TeacherTube
• Del.icio.us
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Flickr
• Utterli
• Skype
  

Laura Sederberg
November 6, 2008