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Top Technology Trends in Education
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Our Students
Top Technology Trends in EducationOne Year or Less: Mobile ComputingOne Year or Less: Open ContentTwo to Three Years: Electronic BooksTwo to Three Years: Simple Augmented RealityFour to Five Years: Gesture-Based ComputingFour to Five Years: Visual Data Analysis
2010 Horizon Report, New Media Consortium
Online everything, everywhere, anytime, anyplace
K-12 Online Education iNACOL.orgwww.KPK12.com Number of states with virtual schools, full-
time online schools, or bothBy 2011, percentage of schools with online
learningNumber of youth 12-17 using the Internet
(Pew, 2008)
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California Aligned Resources CLRN - California Learning Resource Network www.clrn.org
ELR'sOpen Educational Resources (OER)◦California Open Source Textbook Project (Wikibooks)
WILS (Web)
Top Technology Trends EducationSimple Augmented Reality
Modern mobile augmented reality systems use one or more of the following tracking technologies: digital cameras and/or other optical sensors, accelerometers, GPS, gyroscopes, solid state compasses, RFID, wireless sensors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality
Top Technology TrendsGesturing
Interactive Multi-Touch Displays and Surfaces through Computing Technology for Tables, Screens, Walls, Windows, and immersive environments
Gesture Tek
SOMC Island Avatar Orientation http://slurl.com/secondlife/National%20
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Teaching, Training and Learning in Virtual Worlds
Top Technology Trend Visual Data Analysis
Resources www.Thinkfinity.org
Curriki - WebHomeCurriki, the online education community, is
building the first website to offer free, open-source instructional materials for K-12.
HippoCampusww.hippocampus.org/
Cyber Cyn's CafeBuilding a Learning Community in My eCoach
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