1. Teaching and Learning with Technology Emerging Technology Chapter 14
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2. Wireless Technology
WiFi connects to a “local area network.” Its use has exploded across the country
WiMax, a recent entry, can reach across long distance and means schoolwide and districtwide connectivity without cables
Bluetooth creates a PAN (personal area network) connecting PDAs, smartphones, printers, even TV and DVD players when Bluetooth-compliant

3. Wireless Technology
Students currently access school networks with laptops, netbooks, and PDA/smartphones
Continued evolution in wireless connectivity will continue to expand and be enhanced, making computers in instruction very powerful tools

4. Virtual Environments
Virtual reality - 3-D representations of real or imagined environments
Available now online or in video games
Rapidly becoming more sophisticated
Avatars enable a digital stand-in to represent you in the environment
SecondLife is an alternative digital world that currently features many educational sites
Wii video games physically put the user in the action

5. Artificial Intelligence
Programs that work similarly to human brain
Neural networks learn and adjust responses based on previous interactions
Fuzzy logic software resembles human decision making
Expert systems offer suggestions and advice based on database of expertise
Intelligent agents can help with specific tasks

6. Communications, Collaboration, and the Semantic Web
Web provides platform for unrestricted communications and collaboration
WEbook is literary version of social network, gives young writers chance to be read
“Mash up” new tool, combines data from different sources
Convergence of diverse and large amounts of data will transform the way to understand and represent information.
Collective intelligence is large groups of people gathering, discussing, and collaborating on issues

7. Communications, Collaboration and Semantic Web
Place where problems can be solved via technology’s ability to process and connect vast and diverse amounts of information
True Knowledge ( interprets questions, seeks out a single answer (rather than list of potential choices) from all online resources

8. Expanded Mobility
Web mobile computing use increasing, and web devices able to access content faster
Web-enabled devices: Apple iPhone, Blackberry, Google G1, and Pilot Pre, as well as netbooks
Wearable computers still in the future, will offer computer capabilities built into or small enough to be attached to clothing
Web 3.0 will be arrival and full implementation of handheld computing
Convergence: the blending of technologies into single pocket device (smartphones)
Brick-and-mortar educational environments will no longer restrict learning with current and coming technology

9. Grid and Cloud Computing
Communication via networking may turn out to be as significant as the Internet itself
Grid computing joins many computers on a single task, can provide greatly enhanced processing power
Cloud computing links computers together, but members individually use a small portion of resources for their specific needs (e.g., Apple’s “Mobile Me”)
Peer-to-peer networking using principle of the grid, users connect computers directly, sharing a portion of their drive rather than sharing space on a server

10. Displays
Flat panel LCDs were significant advance but will be primitive compared to those in development
FOLEDs (flexible organic light-emitting devices) can be small enough to roll up into a pen or large enough to be a wall mural
Electronic paper: transparent film with millions of black- and-white beads of ink. Current causes beads to rotate to black or white and produce image
Interactive displays use touch screen technology to select, zoom in and out, change views or applications, and more (CNN and other networks use)

11. Emerging Issues
Computers as appliances becoming as commonplace in homes as TVs and phones
Tablet PCs may replace books, paper and pencils as computers continue to evolve
Computer literacy: digital age means teachers will expect this, just as they expect reading and writing
Decentralizing instruction:
May eventually bring bigger changes than equipment or skill levels of students and teachers
Distance and alternative delivery already redefining instruction
Virtual learning will take students to learn anywhere/anytime

12. Changing Role of the Teacher
Teachers will:
Find themselves in new and more challenging roles
Facilitate learning by creating optimal instructional experiences and assisting students with them
Not be bound to a single classroom setting
Be essential to design and deliver learning
Not be isolated, but be part of a network of teachers focusing on educational best practices

13. Changing Role of the Teacher (cont.)
Technology and the digital age will make great changes in teaching and learning as we know it
Digital-age design offers much capacity for individualization
Technology will bring many changes but is a tool with great potential only when understood and used properly