2010 Horizon Report: The K12 Edition the web version

Don Henderson, Chair Apple Inc. United States Larry Johnson, Co-PI The New Media Consortium United States Keith Krueger, Co-PI Consortium for School Networking United States Rob Ackerman Bedford Public Schools United States Cristiana Mattos Assumpção Colegio Bandeirantes Brazil Jeffrey Bajgot Center for Educational Leadership and Technology United States Roger Blamire European Schoolnet, Brussels Belgium Stephen [...]

The process used to research and create the 2010 Horizon Report: K-12 Edition is very much rooted in the methods used throughout the Horizon Project. All editions of the Horizon Report are produced using a carefully constructed process that is informed by both primary and secondary research. Dozens of technologies, meaningful trends, and critical challenges [...]

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years Computer displays continue to develop in ways that are enabling whole new categories of devices. Flexible screens that can wrap around curved surfaces are in prototype, as are small, very thin interactive screens. Flexible screen technology allows displays to be literally printed onto plastic, along with the batteries that [...]

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years While the capability to deliver augmented reality experiences has been around for decades, it is only very recently that those experiences have become easy and portable. Advances in mobile devices as well as in the different technologies that combine the real world with virtual information have led to augmented [...]

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years The mobile market today has more than 4 billion subscribers, more than two-thirds of whom live in developing countries. The global network supporting mobile devices of all kinds now covers more territory than the electrical grid. A massive and increasing number of people all over the world own and [...]

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years The interest in game-based learning has accelerated considerably in recent years, driven by clear successes in military and industrial training as well as by emerging research into the cognitive benefits of game play. Developers and researchers are working in every area of game-based learning, including games that are goal-oriented; [...]

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less Collaborative environments are online spaces where the focus is on making it easy to collaborate and work in groups, no matter where the participants may be. As the typical educator’s network of contacts has grown to include colleagues who might live and work across the country, or indeed anywhere [...]

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less The “cloud” refers to surplus computing resources available from specialized data centers, each often hosting thousands of servers, that power the world’s largest websites and web services. Growing out of research in grid computing, cloud computing transforms once-expensive resources like disk storage and processing cycles into a readily available, [...]

Since March 2002, under the banner of the Horizon Project, the New Media Consortium has held an ongoing series of conversations and dialogs with hundreds of technology professionals, campus technologists, faculty leaders from colleges and universities, teachers and other school professionals, and representatives of leading corporations from more than two dozen countries. In the ensuing [...]

The six technologies featured in each Horizon Report are placed along three adoption horizons that indicate likely time frames for their entrance into mainstream use for teaching, learning, or creative applications in the K-12 environment. The near-term horizon assumes the likelihood of entry into the mainstream for schools within the next twelve months; the mid-term [...]