Great video showing Corning's vision for flexible, durable glass applications that can hide electronic components for high quality display on any surface you can imagine.

Microsoft has obtained a patent for augmented-reality glasses that would display real-time information about live events as they unfold before your eyes. 

MindReader API enables the real time analysis, tagging and inference of cognitive-affective mental states from facial video. 

A wearable camera system (Self-Cam) to improve recognition of emotions from real-world faces in young adults with Asperger syndrome  and high-functioning autism 

Ok, add this to the graphics company I posted earlier... and I can really see losing yourself in virtual reality.

Ok... I am not a gaming person, but if you take the level of detail in the graphics that this company says it can deliver, and combine it with the new LEAP Motion detector I will post next ... wow does this seem to take virtual reality to a new level.

Since this is 2004, I don't know if it counts as emerging. However I like the discussion of factors with make it easier for children to anthropomorphize, and therefore relate better with, artificial intelligence

Article discusses remaining barriers to broadband access in schools and its effect on blended learning environments.

PresenceLearning allows students to receive speech therapy services online. Willows is a tiny farming town in Northern California about 20 miles from where I grew up. Imagine my surprise as I read this article and realized that the superintendent they were quoting, Vicki Shadd, was actually my Jr. High School volleyball coach. The real benefit of distance therapeutic services in this instance is the ability to provide services to rural students who would would otherwise be neglected due to the school's location and budget. 

As our digital devices become part of our everyday lives, and part of the everyday lives of students, what does this say about our "relationship" with technology? Our devices often get more attention than our human relationships. Here is an interesting article on Cyborg Anthropology

go half way down the page for the WearCam, which is capable of perceiving and visualizing social-emotional information in real-time human interaction. The idea is to use this to help individuals with Autism and Asperger's understand and react appropriately to the emotions of the people with whom they interact.

I'm sure we all had some experience with computer based essay scoring during the GRE. This is an interesting article in the NY Times on the future of computer based essay scoring in the classroom.

Ok... maybe the tie in to education is not immediately obvious. Mostly, I just think this is so cool that I had to post it. But think for a moment about carpool, soccer practice, and sports as a starter. No longer does a kid's participation in extracurricular activities require them to get a ride from mom. Go a little further... field trips, classes that are only offered at the charter school across town, on-site science explorations. How many more kids could venture out of their neighborhood for educational opportunities? There was a time 20 years ago I never would have believed that elementary school children would be carrying their own phone, but now will they all get their own car in 2nd grade??

BYOD is an interesting solution, but what is it doing to the school's limited bandwidth?

This article describes a new early detection method that uses eye-tracking technologies to gauge babies' social engagement skills and reliably measure their risk of developing autism.

This is a 2 minute trailer for a documentary on technology to help children and adults with autism communicate and learn. It is quite inspiring, as well as a bit emotion provoking.

First folding screen phones could come out this year, meaning lighter weight flexible size devices that could fold from phone to tablet easily.

Company in Taiwan claims to be only two years from a commercially available Folding computer touch screen. ... This was 6 months ago. The lighter weight, ultra portable nature of a folding screen increase the ability of educators to move learning outside the classroom, and allow learners of all ages to access information on demand anywhere.

Program in Estonia designed to have all students age 7 to 16 learn to write code in a drive to turn children from consumers to developers of technology.

I am very curious, as well, and trying to find more information. I think it would necessarily be a program that expands with their comprehension and maturity... starting with very basic "Move the Turtle" applications and then grown with the student, hopefully to real world application, as they go until age 16!

Ideally, the tech skills would be used to enhance and deepen some of the other curriculum areas. But, yes, 7 years old may be young.