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The NMC Horizon Report: 2015 K-12 Edition

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Title: The NMC Horizon Report: 2015 K-12 Edition
Language: English
Authors: Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Estrada, V., Freeman, A., New Media Consortium, Consortium for School Networking
Source: New Media Consortium. 2015.
Availability: New Media Consortium. 6101 West Courtyard Drive Building One Suite 100, Austin, TX 78730. Tel: 512-445-4200; Fax: 512-445-4205; Web site: http://www.nmc.org
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 60
Publication Date: 2015
Intended Audience: Teachers
Document Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Technology, Institutional Mission, Decision Making, Trend Analysis, Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Instructional Leadership, Technology Integration, Barriers, Educational Trends, Teaching Methods, Blended Learning, STEM Education, Art Education, Cooperative Learning
ISBN: 978-0-9962832-0-5
Abstract: The "NMC Horizon Report: 2015 K-12 Edition" was produced by the New Media Consortium (NMC) in collaboration with CoSN. Key trends and challenges that will affect current practice over the same period frame these discussions. In this report, 18 topics carefully selected by the 2015 Horizon Project K-12 Expert Panel related to the educational applications of technology are examined, all of them areas very likely to impact technology planning and decision-making over the next five years (2015-2019). Six key trends, six significant challenges, and six important developments in educational technology are placed directly in the context of their likely impact on the core missions of schools, and detailed in succinct, non-technical, and unbiased presentations. Each has been tied to essential questions of relevance, policy, leadership, and practice. The report's first two sections focus on an analysis of trends driving technology decision-making and planning, and the challenges likely to impede the adoption of new technologies, respectively. Each includes an explicit discussion of the trend or challenge's implications for policy, leadership, and practice in schools, along with examples and relevant readings. The third section, in which six important developments in educational technology are described, is ultimately framed by these trends and challenges. The adoption or abandonment of these technologies by schools will be very much determined by the responses taken across the world to these drivers of and obstacles to innovation and change. [To read the 2014 edition of the report, see ED559369. Support for the report by Makerspaces.com]
Abstractor: ERIC
Entry Date: 2019
Accession Number: ED593612
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:The "NMC Horizon Report: 2015 K-12 Edition" was produced by the New Media Consortium (NMC) in collaboration with CoSN. Key trends and challenges that will affect current practice over the same period frame these discussions. In this report, 18 topics carefully selected by the 2015 Horizon Project K-12 Expert Panel related to the educational applications of technology are examined, all of them areas very likely to impact technology planning and decision-making over the next five years (2015-2019). Six key trends, six significant challenges, and six important developments in educational technology are placed directly in the context of their likely impact on the core missions of schools, and detailed in succinct, non-technical, and unbiased presentations. Each has been tied to essential questions of relevance, policy, leadership, and practice. The report's first two sections focus on an analysis of trends driving technology decision-making and planning, and the challenges likely to impede the adoption of new technologies, respectively. Each includes an explicit discussion of the trend or challenge's implications for policy, leadership, and practice in schools, along with examples and relevant readings. The third section, in which six important developments in educational technology are described, is ultimately framed by these trends and challenges. The adoption or abandonment of these technologies by schools will be very much determined by the responses taken across the world to these drivers of and obstacles to innovation and change. [To read the 2014 edition of the report, see ED559369. Support for the report by Makerspaces.com]
ISBN:978-0-9962832-0-5