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Each year, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative and the New Media Consortium collaborate to produce The Horizon Report. The 2011 Horizon Report"examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry." Each year, "six emerging technologies or practices" are featured and their possible uses examined. Watch the following video to learn what six technologies were selected as ones to watch during the next five years.
Are you familiar with all of these technologies? How would these technology resources enhance your curriculum? Exploring new and emergent technologies is extremely important to the teaching and learning process. As a teacher you will continually research and evaluate viable emerging technologies that will enable you to “design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessments incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize” learning in the classroom” (NETS-T 2). This WebQuest is designed to help you "locate, explore, research, evaluate, and review emerging technologies" (NETS-T 3d).
For this assignment, you will be introduced to trending and emerging technologies currently available for classroom use. After selecting two technologies to explore, you will research and present a professional review on your emergent technology wiki. Your review narrative will discuss technology pros and cons, consider utilization/integration into a classroom, reflect upon the learning curve needed for an instructor (beginner and more advanced users) to facilitate the technology, and addresses the feasibility of using it in a district with limited web access and/or stringent acceptable use policies. There will be opportunity for you to explore your classmate’s technology review selections and present professional comment/opinion to the group.
Congratulations! Prior to beginning this WebQuest you successfully created your own personal wiki space and are now ready to begin researching emerging technologies that will be reviewed on your wiki. (If you have not prepared your Wiki, return to the assignment folder and do so before continuing.)
What are trending and emerging - or emergent - technologies? Generally speaking they are technologies that will have some type of significant impact on the world, or in our classroom. These are technologies that will help to create the "next generation" of schools.
"There is no one path to the school of tomorrow." --School 2.0
Choose two technologies from the provided list (see, process) that are of interest to you, or that you would like to further explore. Feel free to peruse the list and follow active Internet links to basic introductory information about the technology.
You will research two (2) technologies and provide a detailed professional review narrative for each on your emergent technology wiki.
Your review will include at least three working Internet links to further information about each selected technology.
Reviews will discuss pros and cons, consider utilization/integration into a classroom, reflect on the learning curve needed for the instructor to facilitate the technology, and address the feasibility of using it in a district with limited web access and/or stringent acceptable use policies.
Technology reviews will be posted on the personal wiki already created, as individual, titled wiki pages (remember, three pages total).
A link to your classmates wiki's will be posted in course announcements after the initial due date.
You will explore two of your classmates technology reviews and provide a thoughtful, professional critique of a selected technology review on their wiki.
Step One: Select and explore an emerging technology
Below is a list of trending and emerging technologies; keep in mind the concept of "emerging technology" is very subjective and depends on the technology experience each user brings to the assignment. Within the list there may be things you are familiar with or have used in the classroom, there may also be resources that are brand new. If you are interested in a technology not featured, contact me for approval prior to moving on to step two. You will be choosing two (2) technologies to explore and review on your emergent technology wiki.
Keep in mind this list is a starting point, links provide you with basic information needed for further research. As such, you may NOTuse one of these links for your reference list UNLESS it is a link to a software home page.
As you research your technology and begin drafting your professional review, it is necessary to address the following questions within the narrative:
discuss pros and cons (the good, the bad, and the ugly) of the technology
consider how it could be utilized/integrated into your classroom
reflect on the learning curve needed for the instructor to facilitate the technology
is cost an issue?
address the feasibility of using it in a district with limited web access
consider stringent acceptable use policies (will it be blocked?)
Step Three: Comments
As detailed in the task, after Emergent Technology Wiki URLs are submitted to the assignment drop box (see course calendar for due date), links will be provided to your classmates wiki in the course announcements. You will have time to explore other technology reviews and choose two for comments (see course calendar for comment due date). You will provide a thoughtful, professional critique of their reviewswithin the comment section of the selected wikis.
The next section, resources, includes Ashland University Library database and general Internet resources that will assist with emergent technology research process.
The Research in Education LibGuide will help you to further investigate your emergent technology and it's classroom potential by highlighting AU Library Databases. These databases will provide access to a professional journals, general articles of interest, and, in the case of ERIC, published conference papers and proceedings.
It will be necessary to authenticate to use these databases from off campus computers. Be sure to have your Ashland University ID number ready to use.
Working On Campus?
Links will direct users to the database without needing authentication (IP).
Open Access, Digital Libraries & Internet Resources
Beyond traditional search engine resources such as Google, Google Scholar, and Bing, there are open access journals, and digital library depositories available for research.
The following links feature technology reviews and wikis created by previous classes. They are for informal informational use only (no guarantee the sample project got an "A"). As detailed above, your review must include pros and cons of the technology, consider how it may be integrated into your classroom, reflect on the learning curve needed to use the technology, discuss cost, provide reflection on feasibility of using it within a district with limited web access and acceptable use policies.
This assignment is designed for you to demonstrate your proficiency researching new and emergent technologies and using a wiki to integrate technology into the classroom to meet curricular goals. You are required to create a wiki using PB-Works and utilize the platform to present your research and reviews of two emergent technologies of interest to you as an educator.
Create a main/front page with a short introductory paragraph describing the purpose of your educational wiki; add two (2) pages to the wiki, one page for each technology review, and link them to the front wiki page. Be sure to completely remove the PB Works quick start text from your wiki home page. A total of three pages are evident to the reader and accessible.
Research at least two emergent technologies from the approved list (above). Each review includes three informational resources supporting the research; Internet links are provided/cited at the end of the review.
A detailed professional review narrative for each technology (2) is presented on individual wiki pages; reviews discuss pros and cons of the technology in the classroom, consider utilization/integration into a classroom, reflect on the learning curve needed for the instructor to facilitate the technology, and address the feasibility of using it in a district with limited web access and/or stringent acceptable use policies.
Peer posts are investigated and professional comments made on two other reviews; explore information provided by the post author and provide a thoughtful critique.
Submit your live Wiki URL to the assignment drop box. Immediate access to the wiki is required.
Assignment completion reflects a clear understanding of integrating technology into the classroom for the teaching and learning process.
Assignment Requirements
Possible Points
Created a wiki using PB Works, quick start text is removed from the front page: Wiki includes a main/front page with introductory paragraph and a separate page for each emergent technology reviewed; pages are linked to the main page (3 pages total)
6
Researched two (2) emergent technologies from the approved list; each technology has three informational Internet resources supporting the research and Internet links are provided at the end of the review with proper citation.
9
Emergent technology is professional reviewed with appropriate links and accompanying narrative description; review includes pros/cons of technology in the classroom, how it might be successfully integrated into the curriculum, reflect on the level of expertise needed to make it a viable tool, and addresses usage within a school district.
10
Investigated peer reviews of classmates and commented on at least two; comments are a thoughtful and professional critique of the author's technology review.
4
Wiki URL is successfully submitted to the assignment drop box, URL is live and immediately accessible and wiki comments are open.
4
Assignment completion reflects a clear understanding of integrating technology into the classroom for the teaching and learning process.
2
TOTAL
35
Did you remember to ...
Gather enough information to write a thorough and professional review?
Open your wiki to comments?
Post your wiki URL to the assignment drop box? Is your URL active in the drop box?
Don't Forget ...
Wiki URLs will be presented via the course book marks and links will be provided to you on the course announcements page following the initial wiki deadline. You will have time to explore your classmates technology reviews; be sure your review is thoughtful and professional.
In addition to setting your wiki open to comments, you will need to log in to PBworks to comment.
Citation: The Horizon Report
Johnson, L., Smith, R., Willis, H., Levine, A., and Hawood, K. , (2011). The Horizon Report, Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium.
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