EDU 928: Emergent Educational Technologies

Course Learning Outcome 1 

To design a plan for the evaluation of future technologies and their educational potential. 

To evaluate present “cutting edge” technologies not yet used widely among educators.

Artifact

Shark Tank proposal: Typing.Com 

Reflection

This artifact represents the learning outcomes above in multiple ways.  This first uses Zoom's Clips feature, widely released in 2023, as a platform for recording content via Zoom Webinars and further hosting the video instead of a service like Vimeo or Youtube.  This feature was easy to use and included in Education licensing, so there is potential to use this for video archiving.  The presentation itself evaluates typing.com as an instructional tool to improve student digital citizenship needs as aligned with ISTE Standards for Students.  

The  nature of this assignment reinforced my need to be succinct and clear when presenting technologies to non-technical groups, such as future school boards and district administration leadership.  This also challenged me to evaluate new software for its implementation in a classroom emvironment.

Course Learning Outcome 3

To investigate the technologies that were readily adopted by educators in the recent past, but are no longer widely used.

Artifact

Written Response: Analyzing the Horizon Reports.

Reflection

This artifact represents the listed outcome through reading the Horizon Reports, which analyzes trends in education and technology.  By looking through past predictions, I can see what and why different technologies were or were not used. This artifact affected my learning by showing these recent trends and and the speed at which ed tech currently moves.  As an education technology leader, I will need to be prepared for impactful tools that may not exist yet.