The 2009 Horizon Report for Australia and New Zealand was released on September 25th, 2009 at the National Broadband Network Symposium at Griffith University.
The report is part of ongoing research by the New Media Consortium and aims to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative inquiry within education around the globe over a five-year time period
Cyberbullying has become more high profile in the community in the last few years as technology such as mobile phones and the Internet become more pervasive.
Funding from the Australian Government is producing new research, such as this done locally at Edith Cowan University. How to deal with the problem of the bullying from a school perspective is under discussion with the Cyber Bullying Intervention program, also under way at ECU.
For a range of Australian and international information and research, the CMIS Cyberbullying webpage provides links to some of the major work currently underway.
We have also started a Cyberbullying list in Delicious and will add new resources as they come to our attention. If you have access to an RSS reader or make yourself an igoogle page, you can subscribe to this Delicious list and get an alert as we add new items.
A new edition of the WA College of Teaching (WACOT) Research Digest examines the use of ICT in schools, including the ICT literacy of Australian students.
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.
‘The 2008 Horizon Report Australia – New Zealand Edition is the first in a series of regional reports (that) examines emerging technologiesas they appear in and affect higher education in Australia and New Zealand.‘
The 34 page report identifies 4 Key Trends and 4 Critical Challenges likely to have significant impact in education in Australia and New Zealand in the next 5 years.
The body of the report presents the 6 Technologies to Watch in a time frame for their likelihood of broad adoption.
Key Trends
Critical Challenges
Movement away from desktop to mobile technologies
Valuing of hands-on, purpose-driven, authentic active learning approaches
Increasing connectedness; Reduced cost of collaboration
Ubiquitous tools and lower entry costs areopening new e-learning/technology mediated learning
Protectionism limiting access to materials, ideas and collaborative opportunities
Technical skills of teachers out of step with those of their students.
Assessment as a barrier to adopting new tools and approaches
Poor quality broadband limits school and home options
Technologies to Watch
Time to Adoption – One Year or Less
Virtual Worlds and other Immersive Environments
Cloud based Applications
Time to Adoption – Two to Three Years
Geolocation
Alternative Input devices
Time to Adoption – Four to Five Years
Deep Tagging
Next Generation Mobile
In this video Garry Putland (Education.au’s General Manager and Horizon Report advisory board member) discusses the future of technology in education with Education.au Chief Executive Officer, Greg Black.
Greg Black provides an Australian perspective on the four emerging technologies identified in the 2008 Horizon Report as being likely to enter the mainstream within the next few years.
Becta is the UK government agency leading the national drive to ensure the effective and innovative use of technology throughout learning. The agency has just published major new research into the use of Web 2.0 technologies, such as wikis, blogs and social networking, by children between the ages of 11-16, both in and out of the school environment.
The purpose of the research was to inform policymakers and schools on the potential benefits of Web 2.0 technologies and how their use can be effectively and safely realised. It shows that young people are attracted to many of the Web 2.0 developments, some of which may also be appropriate to use in schools. It also found that, when used effectively, Web 2.0 technologies had “a positive impact on motivation and engagement through involving students in more participatory learning.”
This interesting article in The New York Times focuses on the many positive and negative outcomes that are being seen as a new generation of students spend more of their time reading online. It is the first in a series that will look at how technology such as the Internet is changing the way we read.
If you’d like to follow up by continuing to use the Internet to read some of the research, try The New York Times Web Extra: Further Reading on Reading. And as a thought to ponder: “What do we as teachers need be doing to teach our students how to read online resources?”
View a presentation on the Media and Communications in Australian Families 2007 (4MB)
Once open, to bring up a new element on a page – just click somewhere on the body of that slide (not the arrow). Clicking on the arrows will take you to the next (or previous) slide.
Published on 17 December 2007 this report looks at how children use media and how parents mediate that use. It examines the use of the internet, free-to-air and subscription television, radio, mobile phones and games in the lives of Australian young people and families.
‘ I believe the single skill that will, above all others, distinguish a literate person is programming literacy, the ability to make digital technology do whatever, within the possible one wants it to do — to bend digital technology to one’s needs, purposes, and will, just as in the present we bend words and images. Some call this skill human-machine interaction; some call it procedural literacy. Others just call it programming.’
Marc Prensky conducted a series of workshops and keynotes in Perth from 28-30 May 2007. They explored online technologies and their application for innovative education.Resources from these workshops are available on the SOCS webpage.
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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