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Issues and Trends in Educational Technology

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

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Issues and Trends in Educational Technology

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  1. Issues and Trends in Educational Technology Dr. Najmi Junaid Course # 580411

  2. Facing the Future with Emerging Technology • Riding the Waves: Facing the Future with Emerging Technology

  3. 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

  4. Trend 2: Open Source Software - Balance Quality with Cost • Freedom to share and use • Open Source Links • Examples: TuxPaint, CMAP

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. 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.

  8. 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

  9. Trend 7: Email Communication • - Balance Skills with Ethics • Content Areas Standards • ISTE NETS • Ethics Across the Curriculum

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Trend 10: RSS • - Balance Info Need with Info Overload • RSS Feeds for news, blogs, podcasts, videocasts • Example: Bloglines Eduscapes

  13. Trend 11: Wikis - • Balance Authority with Collaborative Ownership • Wikipedia • Example: Nile Kinnick • Example: Wikispaces - Digital Photography

  14. 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

  15. Trend 13: Collaborative Writing • Balance Individual and Group Authoring • Google's Docs and Spreadsheets (Writely) • Thinkature

  16. Trend 14: Crowd Sourcing • Balance Quality and Junk • Move from in-house to outsourcing to crowdsourcing • The Rise of Crowdsourcing

  17. Trend 15: Simulations & Gaming • Balance Motivation with Time & Cost • Immerse Learners • Rules, Roles, and Responsibilities • Content Knowledge Consequences • Intrinsic Motivation • Example: Knowledge Matters

  18. Trend 16: Personalize, Customize, Folksonomy • Balance Standards with Evolution • Example: LibraryThing • Example: Pandora

  19. 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)

  20. Trend 18: Multimedia • Balance Access with Bandwidth • Accessing, Creating, Sharing • Example: Can I Have a Word? • Example: Podcasting: Young Hoosiers

  21. 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.

  22. 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

  23. References • http://eduscapes.com/sessions/waves/ Created by Annette Lamb & Larry Johnson, 1/98. Updated 8/06. • http://eduscapes.com/ • http://42explore.com/about.htm

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