The document outlines key topics from the 2015 NMC Horizon Report on trends, challenges, and developments in K-12 education technology over the next five years. It identifies trends such as creating authentic learning opportunities and personalizing learning as solvable, difficult, or wicked challenges. Short-term impacts include increasing blended learning and STEAM learning, while mid-term impacts involve collaborative learning and students as creators. Near-term technologies are bring your own devices and makerspaces, with 3D printing and adaptive learning as mid-term developments and digital badges and wearable technology as long-term developments.

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4. Topics from the NMC Horizon Report > 2015 K-12 Edition
TRENDS
SOLVABLE
> Creating Authentic
Learning
Opportunities
> Integrating
Technology in
Teacher Education
DIFFICULT
> Personalizing
Learning
> Rethinking the
Roles ofTeachers
WICKED
> ScalingTeaching
Innovations
> Teaching Complex
Thinking
CHALLENGES
SHORT-TERM IMPACT
> Increasing Use of Blended Learning
> Rise of STEAM Learning
MID-TERM IMPACT
> Increasing Use of Collaborative Learning
Approaches
> Shift from Students as Consumers to
Creators
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
DEVELOPMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY
NEAR-TERM
1 year or less
> BringYour Own Device
> Makerspaces
MID-TERM
2-3 years
> 3D Printing
> Adaptive Learning
Technologies
FAR-TERM
4-5 years
> Digital Badges
> WearableTechnology
LONG-TERM IMPACT
> Rethinking How Schools
Work
> Shift to Deeper Learning
Approaches

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