EdTech trends for 2010 .. it's started!

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I’m useless at making predictions (haven’t even won a tenner on the Lottery yet!) and I’m not going to start now. But plenty of people have, so I’m going to mention some the better ones I have come across;

10 Predictions for How Social Media Will Impact Learning in 2010: Workplace Learning Today

  • Microblogging
  • Text and voice
  • Networks
  • Forums
  • Blogs
  • Video
  • Webcasting
  • Google Wave
  • Smart Phone applications

“Renée Robbins believes the [above] ten social media technologies will have a significant impact on learning and development in 2010”

So do you like books, or do you like reading; E-learning Stuff

“I am still of the opinion that e-Books and e-Book Readers are going to be big! Both Apple and Microsoft are working on devices which can be used to read e-Books.”

10 Ways Social Media Will Change In 2010: ReadWriteWeb

“By next year, we will no longer speak about social media technology but about what we’ve been able to do with it. We will discuss power of ownership and only accept quality, relevant content. As we move to automatically accept a narrowed selection of the mass content online, we will begin to crave larger reach again and the natural process of chaos and order — constriction and expansion, convergence and divergence — will repeat itself in an ever-accelerating pace.”

5 Higher Ed Tech Trends To Watch in 2010: Campus Technology

  • More interactive classrooms
  • More information at your fingertips
  • Mashed-up technologies
  • Breaking out of technology-isolation
  • Capabilities that go beyond 1:1

“The traditional 1:1, standardized computing is too rigid in today’s educational environment, where students are tapping into multiple technologies and switching gears quickly between them,”

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