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5 Trends to Watch in 2011

The Electric Educator

Microsoft announced the deployment of Office Web Apps as a competitor to Google Apps. As broadband service become increasingly common there is no reason for physical media such as DVD''s and CD''s. Cloud computing is here to stay. Everyone seems to be jumping on board. Every day more and more services are becoming cloud based.

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What a School District Designed for Computational Thinking Looks Like

MindShift

An after-school club of middle school girls assembled and programmed these printers with grant-purchased kits from the Ohio-based education technology company INVENTORCloud. Computing devices and broadband Internet are abundant both inside and outside of school. You have to keep trying until you get the result that you want.”.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

“ Facebook Is Not a Technology Company ,” media studies professor Ian Bogost also wrote in August. If that’s what “technology” means, then every company is in the technology business – a useless distinction. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.