Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education
Horizon Report 2008
At the Spring 2009 annual meeting for the New Possibilities Sig, we decided that we would like to continue discussions started at our annual meeting. The group decided the best way for us to accomplish this goal is to blog about New Possibilities in technology for education. I volunteered to begin our discussion with an overview of possibilities for where technology could be going to the future.
A good base to start this discussion is with the Horizon Report is the result of a collaborative partnership between The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning called The New Media Consortium’s Initiative Emerging Technologies Initiative. The purpose of the initiative is to “chart the landscape of emerging technologies” (Horizon Project Website, 2008). The members of the Consortium examine nation and international trends and forecast the technology they believe will be adopted in one year or less, in two to three years, and four to five years and publish those results in the Horizon Report.
What I am going to give you a brief summary of the topics identified by the 2008 as merging trends. I am also going to give you the link to the document. We have been challenged by the SITE executive board to think of new ways of using technology to enhance the SITE conference experience for next year. Maybe reading and blogging about this document will assist us in our brainstorming of things we can do as a SIG of New Possibilities to meet this challenge.
The Horizon Report: http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf This link will take you to the actual document. The Report provides an in-depth description of the trend; describes the relevance of the technology to teaching, learning, and creative expression; and examples of how the technology is being used.
Time-to- Adoptions Horizon: One Year or Less
Grassroots Video: With the increasing ease to capture and edit video compounded by varies opportunities for publishing that video, how we view the use of video is changing. The once complicated video editing process can now be used by everyone to enhance our ability to communicate in social, business, and education situations.
Collaboration Webs: Collaboration software that was once very expensive is now readily available in many cases for free. Collaborative webs now allow groups of individuals to work from any computer with internet access on the same project. The groups can collectively develop presentations, research, and author using many forms of media.
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
Mobile Broadband: The little compact phone has become so much more as the functions have expanded to include a PDA, camera, video and audio recorder, and mini-computer. This power hand held device can have change how communicate and interact with the world around us.
Data Mashups: To keep the competitive edge, several search engine companies have develop simple tools that allow you to combine multiple sources of data and present it as a single source. These new tools are allowing new ways to manage and understand knowledge.
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
Collective Intelligence: Our activities on the internet are continually creating new knowledge. Explicit knowledge is being generated through our social interactions as we socially define our spaces and create new ideas and products such as Wikipedia. The other is implicit knowledge. As we surf the internet, information about our activities are recorded and then processed to analyze patterns. This technology is currently being used by search engines in generating the most relevant hits in web searches.
Social Operating Systems: This takes social networking to the next level by allowing us to manage that social system. The social systems will shift us away from sharing files to understanding the relationships as we “work, play, create, and interact online”.
As we process the tends described in the Horizon reports, we may also want to visit Bonnie Sutton’s Blog on the book “Is American Falling off the Flat Earth?” With the questions posed by Bonnie and the information provided in the Horizon Report where should we as a SIG focus on? What are your thoughts?
A good base to start this discussion is with the Horizon Report is the result of a collaborative partnership between The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning called The New Media Consortium’s Initiative Emerging Technologies Initiative. The purpose of the initiative is to “chart the landscape of emerging technologies” (Horizon Project Website, 2008). The members of the Consortium examine nation and international trends and forecast the technology they believe will be adopted in one year or less, in two to three years, and four to five years and publish those results in the Horizon Report.
What I am going to give you a brief summary of the topics identified by the 2008 as merging trends. I am also going to give you the link to the document. We have been challenged by the SITE executive board to think of new ways of using technology to enhance the SITE conference experience for next year. Maybe reading and blogging about this document will assist us in our brainstorming of things we can do as a SIG of New Possibilities to meet this challenge.
The Horizon Report: http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf This link will take you to the actual document. The Report provides an in-depth description of the trend; describes the relevance of the technology to teaching, learning, and creative expression; and examples of how the technology is being used.
Time-to- Adoptions Horizon: One Year or Less
Grassroots Video: With the increasing ease to capture and edit video compounded by varies opportunities for publishing that video, how we view the use of video is changing. The once complicated video editing process can now be used by everyone to enhance our ability to communicate in social, business, and education situations.
Collaboration Webs: Collaboration software that was once very expensive is now readily available in many cases for free. Collaborative webs now allow groups of individuals to work from any computer with internet access on the same project. The groups can collectively develop presentations, research, and author using many forms of media.
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
Mobile Broadband: The little compact phone has become so much more as the functions have expanded to include a PDA, camera, video and audio recorder, and mini-computer. This power hand held device can have change how communicate and interact with the world around us.
Data Mashups: To keep the competitive edge, several search engine companies have develop simple tools that allow you to combine multiple sources of data and present it as a single source. These new tools are allowing new ways to manage and understand knowledge.
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
Collective Intelligence: Our activities on the internet are continually creating new knowledge. Explicit knowledge is being generated through our social interactions as we socially define our spaces and create new ideas and products such as Wikipedia. The other is implicit knowledge. As we surf the internet, information about our activities are recorded and then processed to analyze patterns. This technology is currently being used by search engines in generating the most relevant hits in web searches.
Social Operating Systems: This takes social networking to the next level by allowing us to manage that social system. The social systems will shift us away from sharing files to understanding the relationships as we “work, play, create, and interact online”.
As we process the tends described in the Horizon reports, we may also want to visit Bonnie Sutton’s Blog on the book “Is American Falling off the Flat Earth?” With the questions posed by Bonnie and the information provided in the Horizon Report where should we as a SIG focus on? What are your thoughts?
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