What's+On+Your+Horizon

// based on [|cc licensed flickr photo] by Natmandu //

Alan Levine
//Vice President Community & CTO [|New Media Consortium]//

...... a presentation for Learning 2.008, Shanghai, China, September 2008
 * Each year the New Media Consortium (NMC) publishes the [|Horizon Report], the result of a research project that identifies and describes six emerging technologies that will be have considerable use in education in three time horizons: less than one year; two to three years; and four to five years. We'll discuss how these horizons may fit or not for your own school and location and share examples of how these horizons are approaching us.

As the project has a mostly North American focus, we at the NMC are interested in comparing how the horizons may change in different regions. In July 2008 we convened a group of educators in Melbourne, Australia to develop [|a report for the Australia/New Zealand region]. The preliminary results of this research will make an interesting third comparison point.**

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How Horizon Report is Used

 * NITLE http://nitle.org
 * video: Bryan Alexander on how NITLE uses the report, including use by Colgate University as funding criteria for internal grant funding
 * Flat Classroom Project http://flatclassroomproject.ning.com/ / Horizon Project
 * video: Vicki Davis on the Flat Classroom Horizon Project
 * Abilene Christian University Connected Learning
 * video: George Saltsman describes use of Report
 * video: George Saltsman describes influence of Horizon Report

2008 Horizon Report

 * 2008 Horizon Report web version in CommentPress format

2008: One Year or Less: Grassroots Video
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2008/chapters/grassroots-video/
 * YouTube Channels
 * Berkeley http://www.youtube.com/ucberkeley
 * UMBCTube http://www.youtube.com/umbc
 * University of New South Wales http://au.youtube.com/user/unsw
 * Case Western Reserve University http:://www.youtube.com/user/case
 * Otis College of Art & Design http://www.youtube.com/user/OtisCollege
 * VideoANT http://ant.umn.edu
 * MIT Tech TV http://techtv.mit.edu
 * 2008 Horizon Report: Grassroots Video
 * video: Vicki Davis on student use of video
 * video: Grassroots Video: Education by http://horizonproject2008.wikispaces.com/Grass+Roots+Video#toc2 students in 2008 Flat Classroom Horizon project]
 * del.icio.us tagged resources http://del.icio.us/tag/hz08+video

2008: One Year or Less: Collaboration Webs
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2008/chapters/collaboration-webs/
 * Melbourne 2051 at Victoria University http://www.melbourne2051.com
 * National Forum on Canadian History http://www.pageflakes.com/cnhs/14568889
 * Mediated Cultures netvibes site Kansas State University http://www.netvibes.com/wesch
 * video: http://media.nmc.org/2008/05/vicki-davis-collaboration-webs.mov Vicki Davis on collaboration webs
 * video: http://horizonproject2008.ning.com/video/video/show?id=1990909%3AVideo%3A24259 Collaborative Web: An Overview] by student Michelle L. in http://horizonproject2008.wikispaces.com/Collaboration+Webs2008 Flat Classroom Horizon Project

2008: Two to Three years: Mobile Broadband
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2008/chapters/mobile-broadband/
 * Abilene Christian University Connected Learning
 * ACU first university in nation to provide iPhone or iPod touch to all incoming freshmen http://www.acu.edu/news/2008/080225_iphone.html
 * ACU Connected http://www.acu.edu/technology/mobilelearning
 * Watch Connected:The Movie
 * video: George Saltsman describes influence of Horizon Report (Director of the Center of Teaching and Learning, Abilene Christian University)
 * video: http://media.nmc.org/2008/05/vicki-davis-grassroots-video.mov Vicki Davis on student created video
 * http://www.uni-weimar.de/medien/ar/PhoneGuide/ PhoneGuide: Mobile Enabled Museum Guidance
 * video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foFft1dr5pY

2008: Two to Three years: Data Mashups
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2008/chapters/data-mashups/
 * video: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92 Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen (TED Talks 2006) -- see also http://www.gapminder.org/
 * Havaria Information Services Alert Map http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?lang=eng
 * http://wic.library.upenn.edu/mashup/ University of Pennsylvania Mashup Contest
 * video: http://media.nmc.org/2008/05/upenn-mashups.mov Anu Vedantham and Peter Decherney on UPenn Mashup Contest

2008: Four to Five years: Collective Intelligence
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2008/chapters/collective-intelligence
 * http://recaptcha.net/ reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books

2008: Four to Five years: Social Operating Systems
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2008/chapters/social-operating-systems/
 * Xobni http://www.xobni.com
 * Google OpenSocial http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
 * OpenID http://openid.net
 * Freebase http://www.freebase.com
 * Human Brain Cloud http://www.humanbraincloud.com

Horizon Call to Scholarship
http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Research_Agenda
 * http://www.nmc.org/news/nmc/2007-08-horizon-project-call-scholarship-released 2007 Horizon Project: Call to Scholarship published
 * http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Horizon2007:Research_Agenda 2007 Call to Scholarship/Research Agenda Wiki
 * http://www.nmc.org/pdf/Horizon-Project-Call-to-Scholarship.pdf

New Horizons

 * Horizon.museum http://horizon.nmc.org/museum
 * Horizon.au http://horizon.nmc.org/australia

Build Your Own Horizon

 * What parts matter the most?
 * What would you drop?
 * What would you add?

For international schools...


 * What technologies will be used in most international schools in the next year?**
 * making information public on wikis
 * onenote for office, sharepoint, collaboration productivity
 * school ning
 * future of books, libraries
 * course management systems, mix and match web 2.0 tools CLC
 * using moodle for planning
 * more people blogging
 * challenge of moving people in use of tech
 * organizational version of twittter
 * kids use of video tech, getting teachers to see what tech kids are using; how to harness
 * getting beyond email for communication
 * challenge of dealing with open-ness, concern over security/id or people "stealing content"
 * ways in which communication happens with parents- SMS
 * SmartCard for registration

So much discussion we never got past the first horizon!
 * What technologies used in business and entertainment will be used widely in international schools in 2-3 years?**


 * What technologies emerging might be widely used in international schools in 5 years?**