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NMC Horizon Report &
The Tomorrow Student
David Deeds
American School of Guatemala
Flat Connections Global Projects
March 11, 2015
Goals
● Discuss Flat Connections Projects
● Discuss the K-12 Horizon Report
and how it's produced
● Discuss how to use the K-12
Horizon Report in your school
● Discuss implementing the
"Tomorrow Student” Model
● No DBP, Q&A throughout
Introduction
● Now the High School Technology
Integration Coach for the
American School of Guatemala
● Flat Classroom Certified Teacher
● 14 years in education:
8 in HE, 6 in K-12
I took students to a
Flat Classroom
Conference in
Beijing and a Flat
Classroom
Workshop in
Mumbai.
Why do YOU love Flat Connections?
New Media Consortium
● International community of
educational technology experts
● Practitioners, visionaries, board
and staff, advisory board members
● Your school may be a
member!
www.nmc.org/about
NMC Horizon Reports
www.nmc.org/publication/
nmc-horizon-report-2015-higher-
education-edition/
Advisory Board Members
● Help with report research, on 3rd
year for K-12 Horizon Report
● Also an NMC Ambassador, K-12+
redarchive.nmc.org/publications/
2014-horizon-report-k12
K-12 Horizon Report
● 2015’s will be finished by June
● Key trends, significant challenges,
emerging technologies: 5 years
● Collaborative, democratic effort
k12.wiki.nmc.org
K-12 Horizon Report
● Primary/secondary research
● Panel starts by reading and
commenting on items, adding too
● Then each idea/issue is ranked
k12.wiki.nmc.org
How to Use the Report
● NMC Academy course available
● Examine/explain technologies,
trends, challenges: short-/long-
term
● Contact [email protected]
academy.nmc.org/courses/
horizon-report-k12
How to Use the Report
● Announce publication and prepare
presentation if possible
● Distribute throughout regardless
● Report: can be used to justify
expenditure requests, personnel or
materiel; provides perspective
How to Use the Report
● No action plan: report can be blueprint
● Action plan: report can be used to
adjust and/or verify objectives
● HR Action Plan: How to employ
strategies for solving problems,
making budget decisions, etc.
The Tomorrow Student
● Got a better name? Let me know!
● Need to focus on who people are
vs. what people do, a new identity
● HR Trends/Challenges: Rethinking
the Roles of Schools, New Learning
● HR Ed Tech Predictions
The Tomorrow Student
● How to apply change management
principles to redefining roles
● Combination of ISTE Standards
plus checklists of specific skills
● Step-by-step map for attaining
inhouse (and/or other)
certification(s)
““...a wonderful tool to demonstrate:
‘I am not making this stuff up!’ We
use the report as a framework for a
global perspective on technology in
education and why we are adopting
our current initiative.”Michael Nagler, Ed.D.
Superintendent of Schools
Mineola UFSD
Quotation
Discussion
● Has the report been used in your
school? How do you plan to use
it?
● STEM/STEAM or other program?
● How is your school preparing
students for the transition?
● What do you think of
the CAG Plan?
Use the NMC Horizon Report(s)!
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