2. Emerging Technologies
What the 21st Century will bring
Gerry White
CEO, education.au
National ICT agency in education and training

3. Emerging Technologies
What the 21st Century will bring
• Digital divide
• Multi-media in classroom
• Classroom of tomorrow
• Professional development
• Use by teachers
• Assessment
• ICT caution
• Emerging national services
• Emerging technologies

4. Perspective
Information and communications
Internet
TCP/IP
1969 1983 1989 1991 1997 2005

5. Information and communications
Internet
Austn
www education
TCP/IP
1969 1983 1989 1991 1997 2005
Information
• Brochures
• Pages
Communications

6. Information and communications
Internet
Austn
www Mass media
education
TCP/IP
1969 1983 1989 1991 1997 2005
Services
Information
• Brochures • eBay
• Pages • Google
• Wikipedia
Communications
• Amazon.com

7. Information and communications
IPN
Web 2.0
Internet
Austn New media
www Mass media platform
education
TCP/IP
1969 1983 1989 1991 1997 2005
Interactive
Services
Information
Publishing
• Brochures • eBay
Multimedia
• Pages • Google
Sharing
• Wikipedia
Communications
• Amazon.com

8. Information and communications
IPN
Internet
Austn New media
Mass media
www education platform
TCP/IP
1969 1983 1989 1991 1997 2005
Interactive
Services
Information
Publishing
• Brochures • eBay
Multimedia
• Pages • Google
Sharing
• Wikipedia
Communications
• Amazon.com

9. So what
has changed
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10. Personalised
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11. Why use Information
Communication Technologies
Real cost benefits:
1% increase in skilled
workers = 0.65%
increase in gross
domestic product
Benefit-to-cost value of
at least $10 for every
=
dollar invested

12. Digital divide
Broadband
• Access
• Equity (teachers, students, areas …)
• Firewalls
• Digital literacy
• Home and school

13. Professor Benjamin Eggleton - Optical Logic and the
Photonic Chip

14. Broadband
Comparison of OECD broadband markets
OECD May 2006 (data Dec 2005), Wairua Consulting

15. Digital divide
• South Africa – Ubuntu, Shuttleworth
Foundation
• UNESCO Education for All
• Chile – Enlaces
• Philippines -ischoolwebboard
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16. • South Africa – Ubuntu
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17. Back

18. • Chile - Enlaces
Back

19. Back

20. Multi-media in classroom
Content and services in a knowledge society
• YouTube (video)
• Flickr (graphics)
• Podcasting (audio)
• Skoool (services and resources)
• Blogging (micro-publishing)
• Books (publishing)
• Television (broadcasting)

21. Classroom of tomorrow
• Interactive eg Whiteboard, personal device …
• Learning environment
Year level Focus Change
K-5 Socialisation Selective use of
ICT
Literacy
Numeracy
6-10 Growth ICT use normal
Engagement Major changes
Learning
Personalised
11-12+ Study ICT use normal
Vocational What works
best
Research
Major changes
Knowledge

22. Five modes of eLearning
• classroom
• independent
• networked
• community
• managed
Australia’s Future Using Education Technology
Geoff Spring, DEST, 2004

23. Innovations with ICTs
TLF - national collaboration to develop
learning objects @ 5c per learning object
per student
Making movies

24. Innovations with ICTs
HotMaths – a new concept providing free
basic arithmetic practice plus subscription
services
HotMaths
Fractions
Angles
Activities

26. Professional development
• State responsibility/system requirements
• Patchy programs and funding eg teachers, schools,
…
professional associations, regions, system-wide
• Methods
Personalised eg course study, research …
Requirement eg registration, system …
Credits eg days per year …
Leadership eg champions, consultants, pilots/trials …
Communities of practice eg share best practice, universities …

27. Use by teachers
• Innovators
can become champions
• Is it worth it?
productivity increase and learning outcome improvements
• Required skill levels
for all teachers

28. Assessment
• Would I care to comment – not really
• Teacher judgement vs accountability
• Parents have right to know
Literacy
Numeracy
Science
Social
Learning capacity
• ICT useful as a component of assessment

29. ICT caution
• LMSs … services, tools …LAMS & Moodle
• Vendor packages not developed by
educators
• New devices need to evaluated and
trialled –beware of harm
• Copyright, privacy, safety
• Web of trust, authentication, authorisation

30. Emerging national services
• Community spaces
• Sharing content
• News services
• Eportfolios
• Career services
• Emerging technologies
• Interoperability standards
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31. Back

32. Back

34. • myfuture
Back

35. Emerging technologies
• Openness eg content, services, networks, standards and
applications
• Value/TCO (Australia, UK, USA)
• Devices
• Online services and tools (not content)
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36. Openness
• borderless global access
• unlimited information
• connected world
• accessible anywhere

37. Openness
• web based
• wireless
• mobile
• open
• personalised
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39. Back

40. Back
Professor Albert Y. Zomaya - The Changing Face
of ICT Research

41. Future
education
Dr David
Skellern -
Embedded
Systems - the
inside of smart
things

42. Conclusion Change Change to Why
from
Text books Wiki Cost and
access
Communication home and Keeping clients
school informed
Educational Access to
administration information
Engagement Multimedia Available
• Quality • blogs Cheap
• graphics Devices
• Conformance Ubiquitious
• audio
Demand
• video
• Corporate
Fixed content Sourcing Quality
• Research content Educational
Authenticating soundness
content
Class Customisation Individual
standards Personalisation learning

43. • Global Summit 2006

44. Robo Principal
Coming to a school near you

45. Thankyou
Gerry White
CEO, education.au
National ICT agency in education and training