{"id":7602,"date":"2012-09-14T16:16:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T23:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/?p=7602"},"modified":"2012-09-14T16:16:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T23:16:15","slug":"gartner-top-10-strategic-technologies-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/2012\/09\/14\/gartner-top-10-strategic-technologies-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Gartner &#8211; Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">As a layman I found the Garner Newsroom\u2019s article useful in terms of\u00a0the overall\u00a0content\u00a0and concepts found within, but was surprised at its vagueness at the same time.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I guess I went into the article with expectations of specific data and insight, but then realized that we can\u2019t really have a solid grasp on innovations that are still in their infancy.<span> However, the potential for most of the topics discussed got me excited.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">As an educator I found the info quite useful, as concepts like \u2018cloud computing\u2019, \u2018tablets\u2019 and \u2018apps\u2019 were all discussed.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>As a tech enthusiast and the K-6 tech coordinator at my school I also found the more obscure topics interesting and informative and a talking point in meetings this week.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>For the latter reason, I will keep my eye on growing trends in ET more often, but not specifically the Gartner reports.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Kent<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As a layman I found the Garner Newsroom\u2019s article useful in terms of\u00a0the overall\u00a0content\u00a0and concepts found within, but was surprised at its vagueness at the same time.\u00a0 I guess I went into the article with expectations of specific data and insight, but then realized that we can\u2019t really have a solid grasp on innovations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328793],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-02-the-edtech-marketplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7603,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions\/7603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}