Horizon Report 2009. This year's Horizon Report has just appeared and is, as usual, full of interesting predictions and observations. Many of the hot technologies from previous years have moved from the horizon to the foreground and the predictions have generally been accurate. The key trends they focus on this year are centred around concepts such as increasingly globalised collaboration, the growth of collective intelligence, using games as learning tools, visual literacy and mobile access to everything. The chapters deal with the impact of a number of key technologies such as cloud computing, mobility, location awareness, the personal web and semantic aware applications.
Each chapter contains a description of the technology, relevance to teaching/learning/research and excellent links to relevant projects and examples of the technologies under discussion. Briefly, the key technologies are: DCSF: Special Educational Needs in England: January 2008. Department for Children, Schools and Families : Byron Review. Digital_britain_interimreportjan09_annex1.pdf (application/pdf O. Digital Britain - what it means for public sector communicators. 0inShare Today’s unveiling of the interim Digital Britain report makes interesting reading for marketing and publication relations people working in the public sector.
The work’s objectives include: Fairness and access for all: universal availability coupled with the skills and digital literacy to enable near-universal participation in the digital economy and digital societyDeveloping the infrastructure, skills and take-up to enable the widespread online delivery of public services and business interface with Government Universal availability of digital communications, combined with ensuring as many people as possible are comfortable interacting using digital channels, is important in public sector communications – when running campaigns that target mass audiences, we can’t make the assumption that everyone has access to digital channels such as email or the internet. In a developed country such as Britain, everyone should be able to be part of the digital economy and digital society. ‘Google Generation’ is a myth, says new research.