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What is on Your Technology Horizon?
Presenter: Alan Levine Robyn The Horizon reports are all available online. Work on stimulating peoples interest in new technologies. What are the technologies that will have considerable use in education short, medium and long-term. First everyone brainstorms - then votes and from this create a shortlist of around 12. The advisory board then whittle the list down even further. Available as pdf. doc free. Written in non tech language. Time to Adoption Horizon - 1 year or less Grassroots video - creating video with very simple equipment; sharing online Collaboration webs - e.g. Ning sites; creation of websites which allow people to collaborate from many places in the world (pageflicks?) Time to Adoption Horizon - 2/3 years Mobile broadband e.g. iphones Data mashups - taking data from more than one source and remixing e.g. googleearth/google maps ............recuts - some people are already downloading movies and recutting them into a different order to make a fake movie trailer for a different kind of movie e.g. Scary Mary = Mary Poppins recut into a scary movie Creative content? Time to Adoption Horizon - The far Horizon - the really fuzzy part :) Collective intelligence e.g. the tagging of content so that it is more accessible for everyone e.g. historic photographs added to flickr and asking everyone to contribute tags reCaptcha - those scrambled words that people have to enter to prove that they are genuine visitors - can now add to your blog too Social Operating systems - e.g. Good Reads - the theory is that if my friends read books that I like, their friends might read books I like too xobni - inbox spelt backwards outlook addon which really helps order your emails Build your own horizon - let's build the future Horizon.au Horizon.museum Everyone brainstormed thoughts which went directly onto Alan's CogDogBlog wiki http://cogdog.wikispaces.com/What%27s+On+Your+Horizon

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Idea of privacy are a major issue to people over 30 but it is not an issue for the younger generation.They have always been able to put everything online.

We are a participation culture. We expect to be able have a voice.

60% of Americans read blogs Over 90% in China and Korea read self publish things

You need a different kind of knowledge today to survive. - what are we doing to teach our students?

Are we living in a Flat World (Friedman) or a spiky landscape (Richard Florida in an article in the Atlantic Monthy - fall 2005)

He totally rejects the idea of digital natives and digital immigrants - he doesn't believe it is a generational thing as there are many young people who don't like technology. He believes that it has to do with how you immerse yourself in the culture.

Prosumer - producer and consumer - these are roles that we use at different times - a temporary role. Today I am a consumer tomorrow I may be making movies and I become a producer.

SCRATCH- from MIT - a 3 D animated program-25 % of the material on this program are remixes.

Social software is about attitude not about the technology. It is anything that allows us to share)

Where we get information and what is important to us.

"I thought they were natives"? - blog post

A discussion followed from the audience.

These kind of changes have happened in society before

Network administrators -main job as a teacher - helping children network with information not to give out content.

Classroom organization - see classroom as a studio (Renissance Painting Studio) - a master is in charge of creative occupation and the apprentice slowly moves forward with small tasks - group critique

My job is not to be the smartest person in the classroom but to lead you to the smartest person to them

Newfoundland students did research on Vikings and for a long time their work was the number one site that was shown. This is contributing.

Mobileweb- the information goes with you where ever you go.

You can take your curiosity with you.

BG stands for Before Google.

Want them to have the feeling of community.

Audiences drive by and communities stop in.

Choices -what is the best choice for this project? - a powerpoint, a podcast Build in Assessment