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The Future Amazingly Precise Predictions from AT&T in 1993 Super-Low-Tech iPhone Speaker Touch Screen Technology in 2014

M-Learning: Promises, Perils, and Challenges for K-12 Education Dr. Patricia Wallace, Ph.D. Senior Director of CTYOnline and IT at Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth With cell phone ownership expanding to more students at younger ages, the prospect of leveraging these devices for learning is generating considerable discussion and debate among educators.

Future of gaming in education

Monday, April 23rd, for live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with good friends Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis, authors of Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time . This webinar speaks to our next assignment on the Future of education.

Great visual timeline of instructional technology with informative quotes. I think that it is interesting to note that technology is not driven by education but rather changes in technology drive education.

The predicting the future quotes are telling. Makes me want to find more info highlighting the edtech pioneers and their predictions of the future.

Redefining future instruction

This is the school that Gary Stager refers to in the movie for this week.

"A sixth grade class at Yokohama International School in Japan is using Google Apps to complete all of their assignments, including the creation of tutorials designed in Presentation and surveys created in Forms. Each student's work is then published to the web and shared through ePortfolios." 2011 Horizon Report

A Guide for School Districts Information and communications technologies (ICT) policies in schools have two dimensions.

"This brief report explains how analytics is used for teaching, learning and assessing student progress, " (Horizon Report- 2011).

Highlights the history/tools of education

We have understood for a long time that expert teachers are those who can bring together their deep knowledge of subject matter with profound understanding of what is good for learning. The combination has been described as Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and is more than the simple addition of two parts.

This blog post highlights the lack of scaffolding to teachers. There is a great quote from Leading for Instructional Improvement that refers to "Reciprocal Accountability" describing the responsibility school leaders have to provide the same differentiated learning to their teachers as the teachers are expected to give to their students.

I can so relate to this. As a future leader, I embrace it! It will be interesting to see this acheivement gap narrow as younger teachers who were raised a healthy diet of Twitter, Facebook (that is already old-isn't it?), Skype, etc. jump into the technology whirlwind without a bump. Seriously, have you seen tweens to 20 somethings even go into a restaurant without their cell phones placed carefully beside their utensils?

This is a thorough timeline that shows the developoment of Ed Tech from the BC era to a projection into the future.

This isn't directly related to this week but I thought it would be interesting to post. This was the headlining article on CNN today. The Penn State report is obviously big news because of how big of a deal the scandal at Penn State was. The fact that CNN decided that the aspect of this report that was most important was the reaction on social media is what I find interesting. It really says something about the importance of social media in our culture. I think anyone expecting to be a leader within a school district is going to have to pay attention to and put resources into social media. I wonder if we'll see positions being created in school districts just to deal with social media in the future.

Another video presentation that captures the past as well as the future. It is amazing how much we have grown. We still have a long way to go...

OK, this one has a little bit of everything and very concise and clear, but what I loved the most was the quotes... An example: "Computers in the future may weigh no more than one and a half tons." -Popular Mechanics, Forecasting the Relentless March of Science, 1949.