What’s next on the horizon for the digital divide? It’s pretty clear that higher education needs to tune into the world of the digital native or risk being circumvented when it comes to learning. Read more in this news article on the Horizon Report.
The fourth-annual "Horizon Report," sponsored by the New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning Initiative, outlines six key trends of emerging tech that it expects will affect higher education in the next few years. Key points reinforce a growing generation-inspired divide, the major influence of Web 2.0 applications, and the need for student guidance from tech-savvy educators. Highlights include:
* "The environment of higher education is changing rapidly."
* "Information literacy increasingly should not be considered a given."
* "Academic review and faculty rewards are increasingly out of sync with new forms of scholarship."
* "Collective intelligence and mass amateurization are pushing the boundaries of scholarship."
* "Students views of what is and what is not technology are increasingly different from those of faculty."
The 2007 Horizon report is a must read! Download the report.
