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1voteA report from the New Media Consortium & the nonprofit EDUCAUSE identifies 6 emerging technology trends that could have a big impact on education in the next 1-5 yrs. The nature & practice of scholarship is changing. New tools & new ways to create, critique, & publish are influencing scholars. Lawrence Lessig set up a wiki & invited the public to help him write the 2nd edition of 1 of his books.
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4voteThe 2007 Horizon Report identifies 6 emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher ed in the next 1-5 years: user-created content, social networking, virtual worlds, mobile phones, massively multiplayer educational gaming, & the new scholarship & emerging forms of publication.
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1voteThe mission of the Media Education Lab is to expand and improve the practice of media literacy and to conduct research examining the relationship between media, technology, community and education in the lives of children and youth.
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2voteResearchers at Harvard (Dede), MIT, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison have developed a project that uses "augmented reality" to teach students math and literacy skills. The project involves teams of students gathering data on handheld computers to explain why aliens have landed, and in the process students "interview" virtual characters they encounter at certain GPS hot spots.
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