What are some new technologies that will affect education?

Touchscreen smartboards are fantastic!

Online education has certainly made leaps and bounds. More people are able to “attend” and classes became more polychronic.

Well at this point, the iPod is almost an old technology, but it continues to be picked up for podcasts to college classes.

1) Mesh networking
2) Cheap and easy access to computers
3) Ubiquitous connectivity (WIMAX)
4) eInk
5) Touch interfaces
6) Paper book digitalization/scanning
7) Open source software
8) Creative commons licensed scholarly work

Lots of exciting things!

@tonedef is totally right, mesh networking + cheap computers = OLPC. Um, kind of. But you can talk about OLPC and the movement to get cheap laptops to children in developing nations and how that is going to affect education in those places from the start, up.

Check out the Horizon Report from the New Media Consortium and Educause. Each year they look at the biggest trends in educational technology. For 2009 they identify mobiles, cloud computing, GPS-based tech, the personal Web, semantic-aware apps, and smart objects.

Siftables, the smart blocks; on ted.com:

And in general, technology that will enable us to be physically active and not passive while learning and manipulating.

Social networking, digital media, and any “green” technology.