What lies ahead of the Horizon: the 2011 HorizonReport and its implications for Territory Schools

Presenter: Pamela McGowanManingrida School

pamela.mcgowan@ntschools.net@PMMcG

#ltl2011

Horizon Report - BackgroundCollaborate between New Media Consortium and

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative

New Horizon Project has existed since 2002, in 2008 they started to create sector and regional editions

Highlights technological trends and focuses on potential impact to education

Process identifies six trends from a list of over 50 (links about this are found within the document)

Why?

Structure and planning

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http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/371595

Sections of reportExecutive SummaryKey trendsCritical ChallengesTechnologies to watch

Time-to-adoptionRelevance for Teaching, Learning, Research

or Creative InquiryTrend in practice (real life examples and

Delicious pages dedicated to the subject)

The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the Internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators in sense-making, coaching and credentialing (p. 3)

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Highest ranked Key Trend

The rest of the key trendsPeople expect to be able to work, learn and

study whenever and wherever they want

The world of work is increasingly collaborative, giving rise to reflection about the way student projects are structured

The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based and our notions of IT support are decentralised

Highest ranked Critical ChallengeDigital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession (p. 3).

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The rest of the critical challengesAppropriate metrics of evalution lag behind

the emergence of new scholarly forms of authoring, publishing and researching

Economic pressures and new models of education are presenting unprecedented competition to traditional models of the university

Keeping pace with the rapid proliferation of information, software tools and devices is challenging for students and teachers alike

Different stripes, different types?

Comparison of ReportsAdoption-time Horizon 2011

•PDF•ePub

K-12 2010•PDF•ePub

ANZ 2010•PDF•ePub

On the near-term horizon (next year)

• eBooks• Mobiles

• Cloud computing• Collaborative environments

• eBooks• Mobiles

Second adoption (within 2-3yrs)

• Augmented Reality (AR) • Game-based learning (GBL)

• GBL• Mobiles

• AR• Open content

Looking to far-term horizon (4-5 years from widespread adoption)

• Gesture-based computing• Learning analytics

• AR•Flexible displays

• GBL• Visual data analysis