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This page contains a link to the Learning in the 21st Century: Taking It Mobile report. "This report identifies key findings from the Speak Up 2009 trends report and from interviews with innovative educators who are leveraging mobile devices for learning. Their stories illustrate emerging trends, implementation considerations and strategies for implementing mobile learning initiatives."

Derek Wenmouth produced this slideshare "Introducing some of the challenges, changes and trends facing schools and teachers in NZ in 2011"

For any business in this current trend needs with the proper identification which can be given through the name and its brand name.

"A report commissioned by the Gillard government found rapid advances in technology and growth in students owning their own smartphones and tablets, combined with their declining cost, supported schools introducing a ''bring your own device'' policy. While this would ease pressure on schools faced with replacing the government-supplied computers it does raise equity issues for disadvantaged students."

"'IT Takes A Village', the 2013 State Conference of ICT in Education Victoria, took place on Saturday the 25th of May at Melbourne Grammar School. The sold out conference featured over 100 presentations and workshops and the conference hash-tag #ictev13 was Australia's top trend during the day. "

"Let me guess, you heard about Pinterest. Or more like, you can't spend 15 minutes online without hearing about it… And now you're thinking, "should I jump on the wagon too?" or "another social network to keep up with?" and on top of that, everybody is talking about using it for marketing and getting tons of traffic and, you just don't see it. Alright, I hear you. I'll give you everything you need to know about Pinterest and a bunch of resources so you can decide if you or your business are ready to join the hottest trend online."

"Back in August I predicted that newspapers in their current form will be irrelevant in Australia in 2022. That received significant international attention including from The Australian, The Guardian, Editor & Publisher (which called me the 'Wizard of Aussie') and many others. Part of the point I wanted to make was that this date is different for every country. As such I have created a Newspaper Extinction Timeline that maps out the wide diversity in how quickly we can expect newspapers to remain significant around the world."

"Microsoft has the Surface. Apple has the iPad Mini. Where do things go from here? The immediate future may look a lot like the present."

"Australia continues to fall in technology-ready global rankings because it is too risk-averse and conservative with IT spending."

"Sixty-three random alpha-numeric characters - in this case, generated by an online password generator - are as good as it gets when it comes to securing your virtual life. But as millions of internet users have learned the hard way, no password is safe when hackers can, and do, pilfer them en masse from banks, email services, retailers or social media websites that fail to fully protect their servers."

"It's natural to want to move to the next thing-but I'm convinced that today we are largely still talking about the "social media" era. The best of "social business" is yet to come in my opinion and we have a lot of work to do in between. Let's take a look back before we begin to look forward. "

For the first time in years, PCs grabbed the spotlight at CES 2012. Ultrabooks were everywhere, but was it an innovation win or an innovation failure?

"The Trigger Effect" details the world's present dependence on complex technological networks through a detailed narrative of New York City and the power blackout of 1965. Agricultural technology is traced to its origins in ancient Egypt and the invention of the plow. The segment ends in Kuwait where, because of oil, society leapt from traditional patterns to advanced technology in a period of only about 30 years."

"Let's get the harsh facts out there first - IT's in trouble, deep trouble. It has become way too reactionary. By IT I mean 'traditional' IT, the time honored 'old school' way of doing things. The pace of tech adoption is accelerating. By rights this should be a terrific opportunity for technologists and IT teams. In reality, old school IT has been shocked and awed by the consumerization of IT. "

"What if Augmented Reality (AR) was Amazingly Relevant, not just a gimmick? We believe AR should be practical, intelligent and adaptable to human lives."

"What if Augmented Reality (AR) was Amazingly Relevant, not just a gimmick? We believe AR should be practical, intelligent and adaptable to human lives."

"Apple announced a few new products yesterday, including a new thin and light iPad Air model. But mostly, the event was an assault on its old rival Microsoft. Always disciplined in messaging, the message from Apple was loud and clear: Microsoft has no vision and their software is wildly overpriced."