Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Past, Current and Emerging technologies and Artificial Intelligence, simulation and modelling – The Horizon Report


This week in the lecture we discussed the Horizon Report. The Horizon Report is a research report that was established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact over the next 5 years in education around the world. Within the 2012 issue it includes technologies such as mobile apps, Tablet computing, game based learning and gesture based computing.  This is a great resource as technology teachers to keep up to date with these new emerging technologies that will hopefully be introduced into the classroom within the next 5 years.

Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Modelling 

This week in our tutorial we were given a presentation of AI, Simulation and modeling. One part of the activity that stood out for me was 2 simulation games that were given just as an extra activity. I found these to be a fantastic representation of simulation proving a fun activity for the students  and also showing them the different kind of games they could produce through simulation. 


References:



Consortium, T. N. (N/A). The Horizon Report. Retrieved April 2012, from NMC: http://www.nmc.org/

Hammerback, A., & Edin, N. (2005). Helicopter Games. Retrieved March 2012, from Learn 4 Good: http://www.learn4good.com/games/simulation/bump_copter_2.htm  
Kobayashi, K. (2012). 2D Drving Simulator. Retrieved March 2012, from Geo Quake: http://geoquake.jp/en/webgame/DrivingSimulator/  

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