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December 21, 2006

A Gift of Information and Time

One of the things I stress to teachers that I work with is to "walk the walk." In this case, we continually preach about "lifelong learning." Then we set up 2-hour inservice training sessions or offer summer courses that are over and done. The biggest complaint I hear from teachers is "not enough time" to keep up with all the new developments.

Well, here's a gift from the The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). Each year they create the Horizon Report which highlights six technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years. Of course, those same technologies will be equally significant to all educators and indeed any of us interested in improving our own learning.

The reason it is such a gift is that it provides a synopsis of each of the technologies to enable anyone to begin learning about them, great examples of the application to learning with links to online articles about the products. But the piece I found most valuable was a very short reading list on each technology that allowed me to really hone in on particular technologies and things I didn't understand about each one.

So here's a gift of information and time, the 2006 Horizons Report.

Posted by Pat on December 21, 2006 11:25 AM