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Emerging Technology

Investigation Stage

This year in I.T, we will be focusing on emerging technology, i.e as in new technology that has not been either used at all, or in fields that it has not been used yet in, fields in education are still relatively undiscovered and have vast potential in changing the way we learn, effecting the world society directly . A part of these takes in the fact and traditional education focused on in conservative education systems, would normally oppose using a range of different technologies like tablet-pcs, online networking and gaming, ipods and mp3/4 players, and a whole host of different technologies. Implementing such technologies can have a vast advantages when implemented in a educational environment which can fund the implementation, and slightly more importantly, where monitoring of the usage of the technology can be held. Our goal this term is to investigate, design, plan, create, and evaluate a implementation of emerging technologies in our school that can be presented to the board of heads in our school through a mini-film, and a foolproof, student design implementation plan. Whether implementation actually take places is out the student's power. The bigger picture of this, was glanced at the beginning, and is the fact that if our school can have successful implementation of digital learning, (for example making all assignments on computer through personal tablet-pcs issued by the school to each and every student, would prevent plagiarism, save cost on a majority of the paper our school uses, and would cut down the amount of paper our school uses, thus saving trees) would not only influence school around us that our open to similar processes, but also would slow effect the region's school's and possibly the world, and could have positive effects like the one mentioned in the example above.

A emerging technology that I would like to present to the school is the usage of social networking sites like twitter and skype to make all students to contact their teachers from their homes and making interaction between students and teachers even easier.


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