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Top Technology Trends in Education

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Top Technology Trends in EducationOne Year or Less: Mobile ComputingOne Year or Less: Open ContentTwo to Three Years: Electronic BooksTwo to Three Years: Simple Augmented RealityFour to Five Years: Gesture-Based ComputingFour to Five Years: Visual Data Analysis

2010 Horizon Report, New Media Consortium

Online everything, everywhere, anytime, anyplace

K-12 Online Education iNACOL.orgwww.KPK12.com Number of states with virtual schools, full-

time online schools, or bothBy 2011, percentage of schools with online

learningNumber of youth 12-17 using the Internet

(Pew, 2008)

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California Aligned Resources CLRN - California Learning Resource Network www.clrn.org

ELR'sOpen Educational Resources (OER)◦California Open Source Textbook Project (Wikibooks)

WILS (Web)

Top Technology Trends EducationSimple Augmented Reality

Modern mobile augmented reality systems use one or more of the following tracking technologies: digital cameras and/or other optical sensors, accelerometers, GPS, gyroscopes, solid state compasses, RFID, wireless sensors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality

Top Technology TrendsGesturing

Interactive Multi-Touch Displays and Surfaces through Computing Technology for Tables, Screens, Walls, Windows, and immersive environments

Gesture Tek

SOMC Island Avatar Orientation http://slurl.com/secondlife/National%20

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Teaching, Training and Learning in Virtual Worlds

Top Technology Trend Visual Data Analysis

Resources www.Thinkfinity.org

Curriki - WebHomeCurriki, the online education community, is

building the first website to offer free, open-source instructional materials for K-12.

HippoCampusww.hippocampus.org/

Cyber Cyn's CafeBuilding a Learning Community in My eCoach

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