EDU568HorizonReport

OPTION 1 What is new in the field of Technology Integration? It's obviously an ever-changing field. One group that tries to keep up with the cutting edge in the field (some call it "the bleeding edge") is NMC which publishes The Horizon Report. Go to [|NMC's Horizon Project] website and download the a Horizon Report. You can pick. . . do you want to see the newest predictions?--download the 2008 report. Do you want to see how good they are at predicting?--download the 2005 report and see if they predicted anything that you now see going on. Note that The Horizon Report is targeted towards higher education. . . but know that it's not that far from high school and that's not far from elementary and middle school. ;-)

OPTION 2 Investigate Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) which is the newest learning/teaching theory in the field of Technology Integration. Explore the [|TPACK website and] the websites of the author. Read the definitive paper on the concept. It's available on the UMF online library. (A fun introduction to the topic of TPACK was [|a presentation made at the SITE conference] by the creators of TPACK. It won't count for reading the article but it's a fascinating and fun presentation . . . well worth the 40 minutes.)

Read your article. Then write a blog entry that convinces me you read the article and then add how the information in the article impacts you either personally or professionally. Be honest. Write well but it can be in first person.

Title your blog entry "Research #1". In the blog entry, cite the article (it's okay to put a citation at the end of your blog entry).