Reading+about+Emerging+Technology

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 * List of emerging information technologies from Wikipedia


 * [|Definition of emerging technology]


 * Technology Review (from MIT) [|10 Emerging Technologies]


 * EDUCAUSE has great PDFs, 7 Thing You Should Know About... Good way to get an overview of new technologies.


 * In collaboration with EDUCAUSE, The 2010 Horizon Report tells about many emerging technologies, including those here now or coming in 1-5 years.


 * International Journal of Emerging Technology in Learning


 * Wonderful Blog titled Assistive Technology in the Classroom


 * An article on using Twitter in the classroom.


 * An article on using the iPod Touch in the classroom, another one, and another one.


 * Article in //Converge//, "6 Emerging Technologies That Will Impact College Campuses" February 2, 2010


 * Anyone read the book, " **//Disrupting class: how disruptive innovation will change the way the world learns//** by **Clayton M.****Christensen?"**

- Barbara says: I've read it. It makes you think about distance education and how online classes fill a need that can't be filled by face-to-face instruction. It's an interesting book but I think some of it relies on some generalizations about education that might not always apply.


 * **Textbooks in the future? With the Kindle what's next in the textbook world?**


 * Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning


 * =====Check out the paper below about Mobile Game Development for Multiple Devices in Education.=====

[|910-3692-1-PB.pdf]

===="The first of these games, Environmental Detectives (ED),was an outdoor game in which players using GPS guided handheld computers try to uncover the source of a toxic spill by interviewing virtual characters and conducting large scale simulated environmental measurements and analyzing data" You just have to read more and wonder how this technology could be used to engage students.====
 * ==Handheld Augmented Reality Simulations==
 * ==March 2008 Research Report from Becta, " Emergying Technologies for Learning" volume 3.==

Two years old but worth a read as it looks at the NET generation.


This report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project is due out in February 2010. You will have to wait just a bit more to see it.
 * ==The future of the Internet..this is emerging technology.==


 * ==[|Handheld Reading Devices Now And In The near Future]==

Jeff Masterson
 * Emerging Technology in Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) **

Over the last 15 years CGI has rapidly altered how film, TV, and video games have been produced and marketed. The result has been that now companies and directors who produce these forms of media are no longer limited in the scope of their visual imagination. Today their are no limits to the visual images they can create and show its audience with realistic, eye catching details. Below I have embed some video that illistrate this point and how technology is changing the landscape of media production.

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This video illistrates how technology has been use to track facial movement and turn that into a realistic on screen performance allowing the director to alter the age of a popular film actor.

media type="custom" key="5132603" The above video highlights the idea of how computers can now create a photo realistic image of human skin and facial expressions.

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Most recently James Cameron used this technology as well as new Performance Motion Capture technology to create the realistic world in his movie AVATAR.