Critical challenges in the Horizon Reports
Monday, May 11th, 2009The Horizon Report: Australia-New Zealand 2008 (released December 2008)
- Protectionism limits access to materials, ideas and collaborative opportunities
- Many teachers do not have the skills to make effective use of emerging technologies, much less teach their students to do so
- Assessment contines to be a significant barrier to adopting new tools and approaches
- Poor quality broadband limits options at school and at home
The Horizon Report 2009 (January 2009)
- There is a growing need for formal instruction in key new skills, including information literacy, visual literacy, and technological literacy.
- Students are different, but a lot of educational material is not
- Significant shirts are taking place in the ways scholarship and research are conducted, and there is a need for innovation and leadership at all levels of the academy
- We are expected, especially in public education, to measure and prove through formal assessment that our students are learning
- Higher education is facing a growing expectation to make use of and to deliver services, content and media to mobile devices
The Horizon Report K-12 2009 (March 2009)
- There is a growing need for formal instuction in key new skills, including information literacy, visual literacy and technoligical literacy
- Students are different, but educational practice and the material that supports it is changing only slowly
- Learning that incorporates real life experiences is not occurring enough and is undervalued when it does take place
- There is a growing recognition that new technologies must be adopted and used as an everyday part of classroom activities, but effecting this change is difficult
- A key challenge is the fundemental structure of the K-12 education establishment
