2007 Horizon Report March 5, 2007
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Published by EDUCAUSE, the 2007 Horizon Report is an interesting summary of upcoming educational technologies. Each technology is listed in order of expected “time to adoption”, and includes helpful examples. Technologies listed include user-created content, social networking, mobile phones, virtual worlds, massively multiplayer education gaming, and the new scholarship and emerging forms of publication. While the article is focused on higher education, it is also helpful to see where the k-12 education community will be at some point in the future. Any other suggestions that should have been added to the list?
http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=CSD4781
You’ll Keep on Searching March 4, 2007
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Is Search Broken? Tom Foremski wrote an interesting article for Silicon Valley Watcher. It is an interesting exploration about some of the current problems with searching. The article reminded me of a book I read recently called Ambient Findability, by Peter Morville. Part of the book describes why we’ll probably never know just how accurate search engines like Google are due to the large data sets involved, and yet we trust it with our day-to-day searching all the time.
As teachers we are focused on providing our students with skills to validate sources of information, but we all fall into the Google-goo of accepting whatever our favorite search engine offers up to us.
By the way, the title of this post comes from a Steve Winwood song. I found the lyrics here:
http://www.lyricallegend.co.uk/songs.php?artist=steve%20winwood&title=you’ll%20keep%20on%20searching
http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2007/03/is_search_broke.php
