2012 NMC and ELI Release the Horizon Report

NMC and ELI Release the Horizon Report > 2012 HiEd Edition | The New Media Consortium

The Horizon report thidentifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact over the coming five years in education around the globe.

This year’s NMC Horizon Report identifies mobile apps and tablet computing as technologies expected to enter mainstream use in the first horizon of one year or less. Game-based learning and learning analytics are seen in the second horizon of two to three years; gesture-based computing and the Internet of Things are seen emerging in the third horizon of four to five years.”

A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn’t Working – The Chronicle of Higher Education

A Tech-Happy Professor Reboots After Hearing His Teaching Advice Isn’t Working – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education

“Michael Wesch has been on the lecture circuit for years touting new models of active teaching with technology. The associate professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University has given TED talks. Wired magazine gave him a Rave Award. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching once named him a national professor of the year. But now Mr. Wesch finds himself rethinking the fundamentals of teaching—and questioning his own advice.”