Six Technologies to Affect Education, hmmmm

On July 12, 2010, in 1:1 Laptops, 21st Century Skills, Apps, Education Issues, ISTE/NETS, Personalized Learning, Professional Development, Publishing, Research, Teachers, Technology, Web 2.0, WoW Whats on the Web, leadership, by Cyndi Danner-Kuhn

Game-based learning, mobile devices, and cloud computing will find a place in schools nationwide

eSchoolNews: The New Media Consortium that says that cloud computing, collaborative learning, game-based learning, and mobile devices are set to “take hold” within the K-12 environment within the next couple of years.

Cloud computing and collaborative learning environments are set to take hold in K-12 schools in the very near future, with mobile devices, game-based learning, and other education technologies to follow suit in the next few years, according to the 2010 Horizon Report’s K-12 Edition, released by the New Media Consortium (NMC).

NMC researchers examined 100 different technologies and whittled them down to the six most prominent technologies that are on the verge of classroom adoption in the next five years. Those six technologies were placed into three categories according to how close schools are to implementing them on wide scale.

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School Principal touts the POWER of PD through PLN’s

On July 12, 2010, in 21st Century Skills, Education Issues, PLN (Personal Learning Network), Professional Development, School Adminstration, Social Media, Teachers, Technology, WoW Whats on the Web, blogs, leadership, by Cyndi Danner-Kuhn

School Principal touts the POWER of PD through PLN’s.  Deciphering the coder, PLN stand for Personal Learning Network and of course PD stands for Professional Development.  And to top it off a tech savvy principal!!  No how often do you see all three of those in the same sentence?

Wesley Fryer, Moving at the Speed of Creativity Blog passed this on and apparently it was passed by another Principal Eric Sheninger on his blog Principal Reflections.  Actually I am familiar with Eric, he has a great site about PLN’s , Twitter Help For Educators and has all his teaching involved.  Eric also started a Ning site some time ago called The Educator’s PLN, The Personal Learning Network for educators.  If want to hook up with educators using a PLN, this is a good place to begin.

The following blog comment from Dan Lourcey makes a strong case for why ALL educators today need to build personal learning communities [PLNs] as 21st century learners.Posted on http://esheninger.blogspot.com/2010/07/good-vs-great-teachers-my-ravitch.html

H/T Miguel Guhlin or on Plurk http://www.plurk.com/mguhlin/

This grew from an article in the Washington Post: Ravitch on teachers and her critics.


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