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Executive Summary: Key Concepts: 1. People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want to. Life is a busy world where learners should be able to balance home, work, school, and family demands on the move. 2. People want there to be information accessible no matter what device they want to use. 3. Digital media literacy continues to rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession. 4. Institutions focus more narrowly on their key goals because of smaller budgets in the poor economy. Companies are looking for ways to control costs while still having good quality. 5. Electronic reading devices combine storing, reading, and annotating digital books to allow the customer to carry hundreds of books easily. 6. Visual data analysis is a way of discovering and understanding patters in data sets. 7. Mobile computing is the latest trend toward smaller, more powerful computing devices that is continually growing. 8. The goal of Horizon Report is to understand what technology is popular and comparing it to other technology.

Questions: 1. How can they be sure these are the next big things to hit the market? 2. What do they do to evaluate the technology's popularity? 3. How can they estimate popularity years in advance?

Mobile Computing: Key Concepts: 1. The fastest-growing sales segment belongs to smart phones- which means that a massive and increasing number of people over the world now own and use a computer that fits in their hand and it able to connect to wireless from nearly anywhere. 2. Mobile computing devices are more affordable and more accessible and easier to use than a desktop computer. 3. Mobile devices are easier to use than a laptop as well as being lighter but with a simmilar design. 4. Studies document the efficacy of the tools of the mobile computers. 5. For a group of students with mobile computers they used the computers during free time for class more than those with just a standard laptop 6. The potential of mobile computing is being demonstrated in hundreds of projects in higher education institutions.

Questions: 1. Does the increase of the mobile computing also decrease productivity in schools? 2. Can the mobile computers do the same amount of stuff as laptops? 3. What features make the mobile computers so popular? 4. Are schools more open to letting students use computers in the classroom?

Executive Summary: Key Concepts: 1. Technology is at the core of virtually every aspect of our daily lives and work. We must provide engaging and powerful learning experiences and content. 2. Standard and assessments that measure 21st century competencies and expertise in all content areas. They combine cognitive research and theory about student thought with multimedia, interactivity, and connectivity to directly access skills. 3. In connected reaching, teaching is a team activity. Educators build online learning communities with their students, student peers, fellow educators in school, libraries, and programs. This allows for a lot of connection in educating. 4. Low-cost internet access allow access to information and multimedia learning content, communication, and collaboration. 5. On an operational level, an infrastructure for learning brings together and enables access to data from multiple sources while ensuring appropriate levels of security and privacy. 6. The purpose of the public education system is the same, the roles change to relect the times we live in and our goals as a world leader. 7. Technology is redesigning basic school procedures such as age-determined groups, and equal size classes because of its ability to help with learning. 8. Colleges should be helping schools to increase technology to help students after high school.

Questions: 1. How does having constant internet access at school help with learning? 2. What other programs can colleges run for schools to help with technology?

Chapter 1: Key Concepts: 1. The challenge for our education system is to leverage technology to create relevant learning experiences that mirror students daily lives and the reality of their futures. 2. Technology provides access to a much wider and more flexibles set of learning resources than is available in classrooms and connections to a wider and more flexible set of educators, including teachers, parents, experts, and mentors outside the classroom. 3. Technology also gives students opportunities for taking ownership of their learning. Student-managed electronic learning portfolios can be part of a persistant learning record to help students develop a self-awareness required to set their own learning goals; express their own views or their strengths, weaknesses, and acheivments; and take responsibility for them. 4. Answers to questions about 21st century learning must also take into account that people no longer can learn everything there is to know in a lifetime, and the economic reality is that most people will change jobs throughout their lives. 5. Technology can represent infformation though a much richer mix of media types. This allows the integration of media and representations to illustrate, explain, or explore complex ideas and phenomena, such as interactive visualizations of data in earth and enviornmental sciences, chemistry, or astronomy. 6. We learn and remember what attracts our interest and attention, and what attracts interest and attention can vary by learner. 7. Group learning especially is enhances by social and participatory approaches such as wikis, in which learners and teachers regardless of their location or time can build knowledge structures or tackle inquiry problems that are posed together. 8. Our education system relies on a coreset of standard based concepts and competencies that form the basis or what all students should know and be able to do in any subject and in various disciplines.

Questions: 1. How does group learning help a student to learn more than an individual setting? 2. Why is it so important for students to have ownership of their learning? 3. Why is it so benificial that students be interested in what they learn expecially if they are not always interestedin everything? 4. 4. How many jobs will the average young American have in a lifetime? media type="file" key="screencast_1_try_1.mp4" width="480" height="480"