New Media Consortium, the Consortium for School Networking, and the International Society for Technology in Education
2013
Key Trends
- Education paradigms are shifting to include online learning, hybrid learning, and collaborative models.
- Social media is changing the way people interact, present ideas and information, and communicate.
- Openness — concepts like open content, open data, and open resources, along with notions of transparency and easy access to data and information — is becoming a value.
- As the cost of technology drops and school districts revise and open up their access policies, it is becoming more common for students to bring their own mobile devices.
- The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the Internet is challenging us to revisit our roles as educators.
Significant Challenges
- Ongoing professional development needs to be valued and integrated into the culture of the schools.
- Too often it is education’s own practices that limit broader uptake of new technologies.
- New models of education are bringing unprecedented competition to traditional models of schooling.
- K-12 must address the increased blending of formal and informal learning.
- The demand for personalized learning is not adequately supported by current technology or practices.
- We are not using digital media for formative assessment the way we could and should.