Innovations Outside of Learning (IIL07)

Tom Crawford opened the conference today with ” Innovations Outside of Learning: How external forces are changing our world”. It was a great way to get the ideas flowing and people thinking about the last 100 years of technology and learning. Tom listed his top 10 nine technologies of the past five years that have affected learning. I really liked his first pick, as I think that we have only touched the tip of the iceberg with performance support on the Web.

1. Performance support
2. Gaming and simulation
3. Self-publishing
4. Collaboration
5. Web services and mash-ups
6. High bandwidth to the hand
7. New input devices (e.g. wii)
8. Video and image search
9. Embedded devices