6 Technologies That Will Change Education?!?

The Journal just published an article looking at the new report by the Net Media Consortium (NMC) in collaboration with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), "2011 Horizon Report K-12 Edition." My interest is in adult education, but the technologies work for K-12 or adults, the difference is often in how the technology is implemented. The near term technologies include mobile learning, a technology which interests me a lot, especially as one who deals with medical and military personnel. I think mobile technologies have a lot to offer, but one aspect that seems to be left out of the conversation is how to develop curriculum for these mobile devices. Do we use the same ISD as we do for WBT and just scale it down? Are students actually taking classes, accessing supporting material or using it for remediation? In fact as a developer I am stuck between the Flash issue. Are schools giving students the technology so all students have the same abilities or are we supposed to develop for every contingency? We're still running IE 7 at work, and there is no telling when the military will upgrade to a browser that supports HTML 5, so we're still developing with Flash. This means it will not run on an iPad. Ok, so back to uploading PowerPoints and calling them e-learning? This is not a giant leap forward.

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