Results tagged “cloud computing” from Tech Bytes
This quote from William Gibson perfectly describes the avalanche of technology options in the future of education. The latest E School News summarizes six technologies from New Media Consortium's Horizon Report that will transform schools. Some of them are already here....take, for example, collaborative environments like social networks, online communication tools like Skype and mobile devices like the iPod Touch....and some will take schools by a storm...er, I mean cloud:) Here they are:
Collaborative Environments
Teaching will no longer revolve around place, whether that be in a classroom or at a distance, but about the learner and how he or she transverses that space.
Online Communication Tools
The personal Web represents a collection of tools and widgets to configure and manage the ways in which a person uses the Internet.
Mobile Devices
The iPhone is an example of a mobile device with the capacity to assume many tasks once exclusive to portable computers. New applications, such as GPS and Wi-Fi connections, blur the line between phone, GPS and computer.
Cloud Computing
This unifying technology supports grassroots video, collaborative webs and social operating systems, and it is poised to drastically change the way we think about computing, according to the report.
Smart Objects
Semantic-aware tools make connections between seemingly unrelated concepts, individuals, events or things, which would take most people many years to perceive, and smart objects are objects with unique identifiers that can track information about themselves.
Read on here, here or here for more food for thought.....
Collaborative Environments
Teaching will no longer revolve around place, whether that be in a classroom or at a distance, but about the learner and how he or she transverses that space.
Online Communication Tools
The personal Web represents a collection of tools and widgets to configure and manage the ways in which a person uses the Internet.
Mobile Devices
The iPhone is an example of a mobile device with the capacity to assume many tasks once exclusive to portable computers. New applications, such as GPS and Wi-Fi connections, blur the line between phone, GPS and computer.
Cloud Computing
This unifying technology supports grassroots video, collaborative webs and social operating systems, and it is poised to drastically change the way we think about computing, according to the report.
Smart Objects
Semantic-aware tools make connections between seemingly unrelated concepts, individuals, events or things, which would take most people many years to perceive, and smart objects are objects with unique identifiers that can track information about themselves.
Read on here, here or here for more food for thought.....
