The pace of change is accelerating, and education, as an industry, is being impacted dramatically as schools struggle to prepare students for careers that may not even exist today. Technology is a critical enabler to help schools transform for the future. Learn from industry experts about the paradigm shifts hitting our economy and society, major trends and technologies impacting education, today’s millennial students, new technology solutions, applications for education and how the internet is shaping how teachers teach and students learn.
7. This is Their Digital Nervous System
Learner GPS
to meeting
International
newspaper feed
Second Life
museum tour
vBlog
Botany
community Fauna
community
Primate
community
National museum
virtual collection
iTunes U podcast
International library
virtual collection
Museum
virtual tour Museum click-to-talkTelePresence
session
Chemistry
community
Chemistry club
Classroom
lecture
National
newspaper
feed
with TA
Chemist
broadcast
session
Virtual
lab
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scientist
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blog
Class
lecture
VOD
Expert
Website
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phone call
RSS
Open
courseware
Government
research
organization
Game
Newsletter
Twitter
15. The Internet of Things is Already Here
6.58
Connected Devices
World Population
• Mobile
• New architectures
• New protocols (IPv6)
• Sensor networks
• Machine to machine
communications
Source: Cisco IBSG, 2011
0.08
2003
1.84
2010
3.47
2015 2020
Connected Devices Per Person
500 Million
6.3 Billion
12.5 Billion
6.8 Billion
25 Billion
7.2 Billion
50 Billion
7.6 Billion
More Machine
to Machine
Communications
16. IoT connections will grow 3-fold:
from 2 billion to 6 billion
between 2012 to 2017
IoT IP traffic will grow 20-fold:
from 197 petabytes to 3.9
exabytes between 2012 to 2017
Source: Cisco VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast, 2012–2017