Horizon2008:Reports and Research
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The initial listing of research reports or web-based discovery tools was culled from a variety of sources and our previous Horizon Advisory Boards' recommendations.
Please use the edit link above to add more (see format notes).
[edit] Recommended Reading / Tagged Items
- FutureLab
http://www.futurelab.org.uk/
- A not-for-profit organisation focused on innovation in education [AL]
- Gartner Emerging Technology Hype Curve and Trends for 2007
http://horizon.nmc.org/wdata/xdocs/Gartner%202007%20Hype%20Curve%20topics.pdf- always a useful resource - LJ
- KnowledgeWorks Map of Future Forces Affecting Education
http://kwfdn.org/map/map.aspx
An interactive matrix of trends, hotspots, issues, linked to examples- [AL] great visual and conceptual framework for outlining the future
- agree [LJ]
- agree, that is a really useful overview of forces and influences on education - interesting to contemplate the trends with respect to cross section of Australian schools [AT]
- Inquiry into the Effects of Television and Multimedia on Education in Victoria
http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/etc/fs_inq_multimedia.html
- This October 2006 report addresses access, use, challenges, and opportunities with new media for Australian education. [AT]
[edit] Still Untagged
- At The Churchill Club: The Top 10 Tech Trends
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2008/05/14/at-the-churchill-club-the-top-10-tech-trends/
Lots of mobile phone predictions. Green energy. Water. And more phones.
- How Youth Are Using Social Media
http://www.socialmedia.biz/2007/08/how-youths-are-.html
a new report for the National School Boards Association: Creating and Connecting//Research and Guidelines on Online Social — and Educational — Networking. The report explores the online behaviors of U.S. teens and 'tweens- I think this is really important - and we just don't have enough equivalent Australian data on this. [AT]
- Museums in Transition
http://horizon.nmc.org/wdata/xdocs/MuseumsInTransition.pdf
- Pew Internet & American Life Project
http://www.pewinternet.org/topics.asp?c=4
reports on technology and media use
- Technorati Technology Items
http://www.technorati.com/discover/tech
blog postings related to technology
- Stephen's Web
http://www.downes.ca/
Browse through the thousands of links in Stephen's knowledge base.
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