About the Emerging Technologies Database
ISTE’s Emerging Technologies Task Force is increasing the educational community’s knowledge and understanding of effective infusion of new and emerging technologies to support teaching and learning. We are building an online database of best practices from the ed tech community that have shown positive effects on learning through the use of emerging technologies. To make this useful for everyone, the collection level of data is deep, correlating successful uses of emerging technologies with demographics that include grade level, size of district, and infrastructure, to allow users to search for an emerging technology that might work in their circumstances, too.
See an overview of the project
See the database of best practices
Ferdi Serim and Kathy Schrock pioneer this task force.
 
How Learning is Improved Through the Use of Emerging Technologies
- Any educational technology (emerging or otherwise) can only deliver its potential benefits if the whole system allows that to happen. The Emerging Technology matrix captures these parts of the context.
- Any student learning that is not explicity designed to provide opportunities and supports for mastery of technical skills is not likely to produce these results accidentally or by coincidence.
- Only through careful, thoughtful and effective planning can people, resources and ideas be aligned to allow all learners (students, educators, parents and community) to have the skills and knowledge they require to thrive in the digital age.
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Three Umbrella Categories of the Database
Organizational Capacity includes human resources needed and professional development ideas utilized to use emerging technologies effectively.
Process Management is the big umbrella of curriculum and instruction including information literacy tools, productivity and creation tools, learning management systems, and instructional media tools. This section is the tools used to directly support teaching and learning.
Operational Capacity is all the stuff that makes it work, including network security, data management, and the huge area of infrastructure management. As schools begin to depend on Internet access more and more for daily operations, we need all the suggestions we can get!
Visit ISTE in Second LifeTM as an example of Emerging Technology in action!
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