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2010 10 Trends in Technology

2010 10 Trends in Technology. that teachers should know about…. 1. Cloud Computing. Internet based computing Virtual meetings Webinars Skype-teleconferencing Freeware—Open Office Slide share, Slide rocket, Prezi--presentations Google docs—online storage Moodle. 2. Web 2.0 (and 3.0).

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2010 10 Trends in Technology

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  1. 2010 10 Trends in Technology that teachers should know about….

  2. 1. Cloud Computing • Internet based computing • Virtual meetings • Webinars • Skype-teleconferencing • Freeware—Open Office • Slide share, Slide rocket, Prezi--presentations • Google docs—online storage • Moodle

  3. 2. Web 2.0 (and 3.0) Sample of sites to explore:

  4. 3. Image & Face Recognition • Google Goggles • Google Picassa • QR Codes • Mobile Tagging • We'll walk past any building, hold up our mobile device, and know at a glance who is in there, what their phone numbers are, and what each person does. And then it'll show the nearest coffee shop, and the way to the subway.

  5. 4. Medical devices • Vscan • Stress watch • Innovations that help people with disabilities • DNA sequencing devices-Applications made possible by putting genetic code onto discs. Imagine taking your DNA sequence on a chip to the supermarket and having it tell you what foods you should be eating.

  6. 5. Data • Meta databases (open and online) • Data.gov -Governments and institutions putting their data online, making it accessible and useful • Linked data • Shared scientific and innovative data to solve problems • Crowdsourcing—polleverywhere.com • Google Squared; Google flu trends • Semantic Web • Microsoft Pivot

  7. 6.Hand Helds • Smartphones and Mobile devices have built in camera, gps, projectors, finger-print sensors, & computer features • Eye-controlled phone and MP3 players • Mobile Applications (APPS) • Mobile Payments (SQUARE) • Google Nexus One • LD Expo

  8. 7. Energy solutions • Water energy solutions • Solar energy solutions & products • Wind energy solution • Natural Gas products • Cold fusion

  9. 8. Social Networking • Twitter (Twitter Widgets, Twitpic) • 75 million users in January • FaceBook=400 million users • Fastest growing pop. 55+ • Average 7 hrs. per month • Social Gaming • Second Life • Virtual currency • Linked in, Google Buzz • The collision of our online and offline identities and the concept of an open universal identity.

  10. 9. Touchscreens and Laptops • E-books • Tablets • Netbooks • Lenovo (CES debut) • MIT Siftables • intuitive part of our daily lives

  11. 10. Internet Entertainment • Movies, Television, Video • Television APPS • Hulu, Epix, Boxee, AppleTV, Netflix, Rokubox • Flip Cameras-personal video/editing • YouTube • 42% of Americans now watch television shows online. On average, Americans watched 31 hours and 19 minutes of traditional television each week during the third quarter of 2009.

  12. Parting video: Did you Know? 4.0 In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. --Eric Hoffer

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