Emerging educational technologies

Becta recently released a paper (39 pp.) on emerging technologies in education which is well worth a read.

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"Research related to the learner and the learner’s context identified four emergent or potential future trends:

• Consumption of multiple technologies by young people
• Increased dependence of young people on mobile technologies for online social networking
• Increased parental encouragement of their primary age children’s educational uses of computers in the home Increased use of TV-on-demand by young people in the home.

The research identified core trends ... affecting the development of learning technology relating to pedagogy and the curriculum. From the core trends, six cross-cutting trends emerge, which are the:

• growing use of Web 2.0 technologies by young people
• development of mobile, ubiquitous and contextual computing
• impact of widespread capital building programmes
• demand for increasingly technological skills in the workplace
  economic, social and technological drivers transforming the character and organisation of education and training
• challenge to professional development of the teaching workforce."