Emerging Educational Technologies - It's About Learning - Jay Cross

December 18, 2010

Emerging Educational Technologies | It's About Learning

Emerging technologies are reshaping the sorts of knowledge and skills that society values, changing the characteristics of learners, and developing new methods of teaching and learning.

Microsoft’s future vision 2019: 

AMD Foundation – Changing the Game: 

Lionhead Studio’s Milo and Kate: 

While ICT is only having minor impacts in schools, it is fostering powerful engagement and mastery in informal learning environments

. In my Emerging Educational Technology class, Chris Dede asks, if we were to redesign education, what types of scalable, sustainable learning environments might today’s increasingly sophisticated ICT enable us to create?

 

U.S. 2010 Educational Tech Plan: http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010

2010 Horizon Report: http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/