"2011 Horizon Report." Educause, 08 Feb. 2011. Web. 13 Sep 2011. <http://www.educause.edu/Resources/2011HorizonReport/223122>.
Link to the report.
The Horizons Report identifies and discusses the implications in regard to teaching, learning, research and creative inquiry, what is being done now, and further reading for technologies they identify becoming main stream within certain time frames. This years report includes ebooks, and "mobiles" in the 12 month range, augmented reality and game based are 2-3 years and gesture based computing and learning analytics are 4-5 years. It will be interesting to see how some of this plays out. With the ebooks, they're popular, but personally won't get the most out of it until it's not only more interactive-I need to be able to write on it. I do currently use BB on my phone phone for TCC. It's also hepful in email access and discussion posts, but I couldn't grade with it and I haven't had a student that can type a paper on it yet. I have seen students do it with tablets though, so I could see it useful as a student. A couple of weeks ago, I had a student ask why they would want to access the library on their phone at Kaplan, so some students are still skeptical. When I read about learning analytics all I could think of was big brother, and the idea of power in silently watching via technology that Selfe and Selfe talked about.
When I read about the gesture based computing, all I could think of was Gmail's April Fool's joke.
Sometimes it is interesting to go back and look at earlier Horizon Reports to evaluate their crystal balls. I've always wanted to write something up about the Horizon Reports as Science Fiction.
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