Creating Significant Learning Environments
In addition to awesome sitcoms, Dunakroos, and slap bracelets, the 1990s gave us some great technology too. Here are 15 of the best innovations from 1990-1999.
I remember this period all too well. Still wish I would have bought stock in Amazon at the very beginning.
Source: Tech nostalgia: The top 15 innovations of the 1990s – TechRepublic
Clayton R Wright reminded me about Jane Hart’s Top 100 Tools for Learning 2014 is in it’s 8th edition. If you click any of the items on the list, http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/analysis-2014/ you will be able to view additional information such as website URL, cost, availability, and comments from respondents to the annual survey regarding why they found the tool useful.
I find it very interesting that PowerPoint is the only non web or cloud-based tool in the top 10. The future of Educational technology is cloud-based.
2014 Top 100 (Only the first 10 are listed below. Go to Jane Hart’s site to see the complete list.)
1 – Twitter
2 – Google Docs/Drive
3 – YouTube
4 – PowerPoint
5 – Google Search
6 – WordPress
7 – Dropbox
8 – Evernote
9 – Facebook
10 – LinkedIn
Brown-Martin discusses six key areas in his talk:
Context
Environment
Engagement
Technology
Assessment
Future
He concludes that revolution in education we need a revolution in society that is focused not on GDP and global competitiveness but on the real challenges faced by our children and their children in this century.
