Week+Six

**Taking the Pulse of Today and the Future**

 * WEEK SIX**


 * Topics Covered:**
 * **The Horizon Report**
 * **The Open Education Movement**
 * **Attention Economy**
 * **Internet2**
 * **Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web (The Intelligent Web)**
 * **Wearable Technology**
 * **Google Wave**
 * **Internet III**

[|Horizon Report]
 * The Horizon Report**

From the report - Time to Adoption:
 * 1) [|One Year or Less: Collaborative Environments] (3)
 * 2) [|One Year or Less: Online Communication Tools] (2)
 * 3) [|Two to Three Years: Mobiles] (1)
 * 4) [|Two to Three Years: Cloud Computing] (1)
 * 5) [|Four to Five Years: Smart Objects] (0)
 * 6) [|Four to Five Years: The Personal Web] (0)

iTunes University (login to iTunes) [|MIT Open CourseWare] [|When Professors Print Their Own Diplomas, Who Needs Universities?] [|The Disaggregated Future of Education] [|What is a Long Tail Learner?] [|Open Source Education] [|Curriki] [|Open Educational Resources] [|Signs of a Significant Disruption in the Traditional Textbook Model] [|CK-12] [|California Open Source Textbook Project] [|Students Give E-Book Readers Mixed Reviews] Wall Street Journal
 * The Open Education Movement**
 * [|What are Open Textbooks?]

What are the implications for educators using open source resources? Will open source availability push textbooks aside?

**"The currency of the New Economy won't be money, but attention -- A radical theory of value.** " From [|Attention Shoppers!] in Wired [|The Attention Economy: An Overview] [|Attention and Distraction] "Today’s reality of connectedness is dramatically different from what existed even ten years ago. Banning is at best a short term solution that will isolate and agitate the very group education is expected to serve. The battle for control of information and interaction has already been won by “the individual”. Organizations, governments, and universities that have not yet recognized this may continue to limp along for a while…but their current stance is not tenable." [|Attention Economy blog] [|Designing Choreographies for the New Economy of Attention]
 * Attention Economy**

[|Muse: A Project of the Internet2 K20 Initiative] [|Next Generation Cyberspace]
 * Internet2**
 * [|Get Started Guide for K-12 Instructors]
 * Is Internet2 bypassing you? Click [|here] to view a map.

[|Web 3.0 Conference]: Remix Information for Insight and Profit [|The Semantic Web in Education] [|Web 3.0: The Semantic Web Cometh] [|Twine]
 * Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web (The Intelligent Web)**

Watch this video from a TED talk - [|Patti Maes Demos the Sixth Sense] - "This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some." How can educators be prepared to teach using wearable technology?
 * Wearable Technology**

[|The Future of the Internet III] "A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves."
 * Interent III Pew Internet and American Life Project**

Justification to Principal - Based upon research, report on why technology in learning is needed in your particular classroom. Use a minimum of five journal articles to justify your position. Use the ISTE NETS for Students to support your position. And, include a budget (even if the tools used are free). Use a wiki to house your report and include a podcast summarizing your justification.
 * Student Assignment:**


 * Tools You Use:**