A Review of the NMC Horizon K-12 Report
The NMC Horizon Report is a publication from cooperation between the New Media Consortium (NMC), Consortium for School Networking and the International Society for Technology in Education. The authors indicate the report “identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within education around the globe” […]
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gregcamp 9:02 pm on May 16, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Great post,
Sounds like there is lots of useful information in this report that a technology company or entrepreneur would find useful to stay current with trends and to keep their product or service appealing to the market. The problem with technology is that it is a 1 time purchase for the most part and constantly needs upgraded. This is especially true from a public education standpoint where budgets don’t exist that allow technology to be upgraded and maintained properly. If a venture can come up with a low cost solution to this problem or atleast put lots of thought into it as they develop their product or service their chance at success will increase substantially.
Regards,
Greg Campbell
Deborah S 5:39 am on May 17, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
A really informative summary! As Greg pointed out, it appears the report has a great deal of information that would be useful to educators. I think it’s very helpful that they explained how the items were chosen (a shortcoming of the report I reviewed). Including a prediction about the timeline for general implementation would allow educators to remain close to any new developments with the emerging technology.
Deborah
janetb 4:55 pm on May 17, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Thanks for the review. I had looked briefly at the Higher Education Edition and it looked promising. I also had noticed the timeline and thought it would be helpful as a rough outline for planning ahead.
I appreciated your comment about the bias in the report. Big business, funding and politics certainly all play their role in educational technology.
Janet
HJDeW 8:04 pm on May 17, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Tim, when looking at the short list for the NMC K-12 2012 report (http://k12.wiki.nmc.org/file/view/2012-Horizon.K12-Shortlist.pdf), there are significant differences between items identified for K-12 educators and those found in the Horizon Higher Ed report. I found that an interesting anomaly but think that it a reasonable response to varying technological needs and issues at each level of education.
Helen
Denise 4:15 am on May 20, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
HI Helen,
I too looked at the NMC reports and noticed the difference. I actually thought it was less an anomaly and maybe more of a recognition that K-12 is different to higher education? Just reflecting on the UBC cube – K-12 is a different market focus, has different buyers, and maybe different market status and competition.
I thought that there were 3 different NMC reports (including museum education) was a strength of the reports.