February+14+Homework

Challenges:
 * **Readings** || ** Eight ** **Most interesting key concepts** || ** Four ** **Questions or ideas to pursue** ||
 * Executive Summary of the **Horizons Report 2010 (handout from class) pp. 3-8** || Trends:
 * The abundance of resources & relationships that are made easily through the internet
 * People expect that they will be able to study, work and learn wherever and whenever.
 * Technologies we use are cloud-based
 * Students work is more collaborative
 * The role of academy and how they prepare students for their future lives
 * Digital Media and the importance in many professions
 * Controlling the costs || * How expensive will this new technology be?


 * Technology is becoming more mobile

**Horizons Report 2010 (handout from class) pp. 9-12** || * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Mobile computing tools are aids in daily life
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Communication is easier with technology
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;"> What is the best way to integrate technology in the classroom? How often should it be used? ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Mobile Computing from the
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Users expect anytime, anywhere access to data and services
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Ebooks, email readers offer storage and portability and have the ability to connect to internet almost anywhere
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Have tools that can record observations via voice or text or multimedia
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">An addition to email, communication and calendaring, there are new tools that allow people to manage their personal information
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Mobile computing is being used at higher education institutions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Mobiles used for information of all kinds
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Mobiles are used for communication, business tools, video, audio capturing, editing, sensing and measurement || * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">The new mobile devices are smaller and easier to carry around.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">The advances in technology let you do pretty much anything.

<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">[] || * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Education is the key to economic growth and prosperity in America <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">**from Transforming American Education Learning Powered by Technology at** <span style="color: #121de3; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">[] || * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Technology can provide resources. Experiences and assessment systems that measure student learning
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Technology is an extremely important part of our society today.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Are there many downsides of mobile devices? ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Executive Summary from **Transforming American Education Learning Powered by Technology at**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">NETP urges our education system at all levels to be clear about outcomes we seek, monitor and measure performance, hold ourselves accountable for progress.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Plan recognizes that technology is an important aspect of every day life
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Technology based learning and assessments systems will be vital in improving student learning and generating data
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Technology will help execute collaborative teaching strategies
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Five essential areas: learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure and productivity
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Multimedia should be woven into all content areas
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Professionals should use wikis, blogs and digital content for the research collaboration and communication || * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Is being so dependent on technology a bad thing?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Is it good that children will be spending so much time on the technological devices inside and outside of the classroom?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">What types of negative effects might technology have on people?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Will it make people lazier? Less creative? ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Chapter 1 Learning: Engage and Empower
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Change what and how we teach to match what people need to know and how they learn
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Learning experiences can be individualized
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Individualization-instruction paced to the learning needs of different learners
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Differentiation-learning preferences of learners
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Personalization- differentiation + individualization
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Technology gives students chance to take ownership of their learning
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Trying to make improvements with assessments || * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">How much is technology going to be integrated into classrooms in the future?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Will books be replaced with electronic devices?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">It will be interesting to see how much technology improves people’s learning.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">Technology is making differentiated and individual instruction easier ||