Tech Trends In Education

5 Tech Trends that Could Supercharge Education in 2016

The technologies of tomorrow are already making headway into education, and others are poised for mass distribution in 2016.

D. Frank Smith | December 28, 2015

Science-fiction author William Gibson once said, "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."
The technologies of tomorrow are already being tested in select classrooms today, laying the seeds for the future of how students could learn. With 2016 fast approaching, technology analysts have been busy prognosticating the top technology trends. A few of these technologies have already made headway into education, and others are poised for mass distribution, with the promise of ground-shaking change in their wake.
We’ve reviewed a few of these trends through the lens of how they could affect classrooms in both K–12 and higher education.

For the first time, doctors will be able to prescribe FDA-approved video games to help treat ADHD. Source: http://www.frogdesign.com/techtrends2016/

<more at >http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2015/12/5-tech-trends-could-supercharge-education-2016; related links: http://www.frogdesign.com/techtrends2016/ (Tech Trends 2016) and http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2014/09/watson-goes-medical-school (Watson Goes to Medical School. IBM is releasing a cloud-based arm of its supercomputer as a commercial technology to aid researchers in parsing Big Data.)>