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2005 Advisory Board initial responses:
– Technologies for Searching and Finding
– Open Source (as an Enterprise-Level Strategy)
– Affective Computing (rename Multi-sensory? )
– Pervasive/Context-Aware Computing
2006 Advisory Board initial responses:
– Cellphones and other mobile devices – with much improved software, video & Flash capability, plus social interaction tools, (SMS, chat)(Diana Oblinger)
– Virtual Groups and Collaboration – these tools are very widely used in business, and their ability to support distributed work and processes is improving all the time (Diana Oblinger)
– 3-D Scans and Projection – these hologram-like tools increasingly allow visualization of context (Diana Oblinger) - and 3d printing (Bryan Alexander)
--Digital gaming - a domain which already defines a generation, constitutes a global industry, and has transformed media literacy, with no signs of stopping. New forms, fluencies, communities develop rapidly. (Bryan Alexander)
– Also, maybe rise of game console/media center as educational tech platform (Alan Levine)
– Tivo Apply same primciple to educational content, ability to capture learning, timeshift?? (Alan Levine)
– Instant/Text Messaging move from class annoyance or add-on to applied use, perhaps usurp email as primary communication tool (Alan Levine)
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2005 Advisory Board initial responses:
– Knowledge Webs
– Social Networking and Connection Tools
– Gaming
– Augmented Reality - there's a light form of this, which we've already seen with art projects like YellowArrow. A heavier form depends on wearable computing and intensive graphics rendering, which has been piloted, but isn't mature in 2005 (Bryan Alexander)
2006 Advisory Board initial responses:
– Haptics and other multi-modal technologies – gesture recognition, especially (Diana Oblinger)
– Next generation presence-awareness – your technology knows what you are doing, where you are, and delivers information to you based on that, eg. my phone is not ringing because it is linked to my calendar and knows I am in a meeting – but if my spouse were to call, that call would come through. (Diana Oblinger)
– Seamless Connection of Student Owned technology transparent handoffs, authentication. Non computer devices begin to dominate as content access point (Alan Levine)
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2006 Advisory Board initial responses:
– Information Literacy – in the way librarians use the term. Do students have the cognitive basis to know good information when they find it? Info Literacy has three components: technical, cognitive, and ethical – the last one, ethical, is especially challenging in a remix culture where attribution is less valued than in the past (Diana Oblinger)
– Digital Divide – while not a new trend, still very importabt socially (Diana Oblinger)
– Support – All of us are becoming less expert. Are we growing that cadre of people that ww will need to support the great ideas coming our way? (Diana Oblinger)
– Science and Technology Leadership – we are not graduating or attracting the numbers of people we need in the sciences, and are falling further behind all the time. We need a "Sputnik" episode to wake us up. (Diana Oblinger)
--IP issues - we're returning to the medieval theme of cloisters, by walling off campus digital environments. At the same time, global projects and functions increase in ease of use, scope, and importance (Web 2.0, GoogleEarth, etc. etc.) How to respond to this enormous division? (Bryan Alexander)
– Student/Teacher Gaps In Tech Use it may grow wider and create more discomfort and dis-satisfaction (Alan Levine)
– Technology Churn Can we live with technologies that recycle, grow, change on a monthly, daily basis, rather than yearly basis? Can we accept not being masters of technology? (Alan Levine)
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2006 Advisory Board initial responses:
– Timeshifting – technology is allowing us more and more freedom to choose when and where we want to have an experience (Diana Oblinger)
– Distributed Cognition/Social Networking (Diana Oblinger)
– Visualization – 3-D can hold more info than 2-D (Diana Oblinger)
– Increasing Individualization the explosive growth of self-publishing is just one example; Flickr and other online communities also encurage individualization of the experience; peer-to-peer has some interesting social dimensions that faciliate this as well (Diana Oblinger)
– Mobility – People increasingly want their technology to go (Diana Oblinger)
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