1B: Emerging Markets Poll

Purpose

A simple crowdsourcing exercise to help determine which emerging learning technologies will become the focus of this iteration of ETEC522.

Instructions

Go to the ETEC522 home page and click the “Emerging Market Poll” category.  The posts that will be listed are brief individual statements about currently emerging learning technologies.  These have all been excerpted from very recent professional research reports which have predicted that these are the most important emerging technologies for educators to take notice of.

We want to know if you agree, and if you have alternate technologies you wish to promote as being even more significant.  Here’s what to do:

1. MARKET OPPORTUNITY POLL:  Carefully review all of the posts in this category in order to identify the eight (8) emerging technologies you believe are the most opportunistic (urgent, exciting, important, prospectively transformative) for the general, global future of teaching and learning.  Also identify the eight (8) emerging technologies you believe are least opportunistic.  The PulsePress plug-in is activated for the posts in this category (look in the upper right portion of each post), enabling you to voice your opinion with a vote.  Vote positively for the eight (8) most opportunistic technologies and negatively for the eight (8) least opportunistic.   You can only vote a maximum of once for each technology.  Each of the posts contains a link you can follow to the relevant research report so that you can find out more about each technology, but this is completely optional for this poll: we’re confident in the value of your immediate, unresearched professional opinion.
2. WHAT IS MISSING?:   (Optional)  Are you a more astute futurist than any of these studies, or do you have a better oracle at your disposal?   If you have a clear idea about a highly opportunistic learning technology that isn’t listed, please post it in roughly the same format as the other listings, making sure it is categorized “Emerging Market Poll” so that everyone else is able to vote on it.  Each new post effectively gives you one extra vote (you can’t vote on your own post, but its existence is nonetheless a vote!).  Do not post more than two (2) alternate selections without first discussing the matter with your instructor.
3. PERSONAL OPPORTUNITY POLL: Identify the three (3) emerging learning technologies from the full list that you believe are most opportunistic for you professionally in your career, either because their impact is most imminent due to factors in your professional environment, or because you personally are deeply interested in them and intend to champion their application.  For each of these three (3) posts click “Reply” to make a one sentence statement about why you believe this technology is so important.  And yes, if you posted an alternate prediction in 2 (above), you are also able to reply in this manner to your own prediction.

N.B. – Polling Impact:  The meshed results of these two polls will help determine which emerging technologies will become the focus of Stage 3 of this course, and which Emerging Market Team (to conduct Assignment #2) you will be assigned to.  Nominally speaking the highest-voted posts will become our eight (8) topics, and you will be assigned to one of your three personal selections, but it almost certainly won’t come out exactly this way.  If you have a high priority reason for being assigned to any specific topic, please email your instructor before the end of Week 1.

Deadline

This activity must be complete by the end of Week 1  to have any useful effect.  Topics and Emerging Market Team assignments will be announced at the beginning of Week 2.