I still remember being kept after class and having to clean the erasers, clouds of white dust billowing through the air leaving a film across my skin and causing me to cough like a three-pack-a-day smoker. The smell is imbedded in my memory as if it as yesterday. Boy are those days gone.
Fast forward to 2013 and not only are tablets and ipads becoming more prevalent in the classroom, but phones can share files with merely a touch and "the cloud" is only beginning to penetrate the education system, but what lies ahead for technology in the classroom?
For over a decade, the New Media Consortium (NMC) has been charting the landscape of emerging technologies in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry on a global scale. Here are some quick insights....ALL within the next 4-5 years: (comments in italics mine)
- By the end of this year, the mobile market is expected to consist of over 7 billion accounts
- Mobile users will have downloaded 70 billion apps across smartphones and ta
