and generally learned a lot and enjoyed ourselves while, hopefully providing you, our readers, with useful resources.
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The Horizon Report seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations.
Each edition of the Horizon Report:
introduces six emerging technologies or practices that are likely to enter mainstream use in learning-focused organizations within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years
One Year or Less: Mobiles
One Year or Less: Cloud Computing
Two to Three Years: Geo-Everything
Two to Three Years: The Personal Web
Four to Five Years: Semantic-Aware Applications
Four to Five Years: Smart Objects
identifies and ranks key trends affecting the practice of teaching, learning, research, and creative expression according to how significant an impact they are likely to have on education in the next five years.
Increasing globalization continues to affect the way we work, collaborate, and communicate.
The notion of collective intelligence is redefining how we think about ambiguity and imprecision.
Experience with and affinity for games as learning tools is an increasingly universal characteristic among those entering higher education and the workforce.
Visualization tools are making information more meaningful and insights more intuitive.
As more than one billion phones are produced each year, mobile phones are benefiting from unprecedented innovation, driven by global competition.
One year later, 17 participating institutions have contributed to The Commons from their photographic archives. Australian contributors include: The Powerhouse Museum, The State Library of NSW and The Australian War Memorial.
To increase access to publicly-held photography collections, and
To provide a way for the general public to contribute information and knowledge.
If you make use of a photo from The Commons, you are advised to read the usage rights statement.
from The Commons website…
The best way to get involved is to add a tag or two to the photos you see, and if you happen to know anything else about the subject, by all means add a comment.
*Any Flickr member is able to add tags or comment on these collections. If you’re a dork about it, shame on you. This is for the good of humanity, dude!!
For readers new to online photo sharing here is quick introduction.
The Technology Focus Blog, published by Curriculum Materials Information Services, Department of Education and Training, Western Australia is designed to provide news about current events, resources and research about the use of ICT to support learning and teaching.
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