Horizon Report: K-12 Edition & Toolkit

Education and technology leaders, policymakers and key stakeholders in educational institutions need forward thinking information addressing opportunities for teaching, learning and creative expression. The NMC Horizon Report: 2012 K-12 Edition is a publication of the New Media Consortium. This annual report provides a rich set of topics, examples and resources for use in considering new technologies that hold strong promise for K-12 institutions in the US and globally.

Access to the Report is free, however user registration is required to access Publication downloads.

Download The NMC Horizon Report: 2012 K-12 Edition.

Download the webinar of The Horizon Report: 2012 K-12 Edition.

Download the CoSN Horizon Report: 2012 K-12 Edition Toolkit, developed in partnership with the New Media Consortium and supported by HP.

View the accompanying Horizon Report Videos.

Please provide feedback following discussions with your local or regional stakeholders in order to help us know about your successes, better understand your needs and improve our future resources.

The Report and Toolkit are published under a Creative Commons license to facilitate its widespread use, easy duplication, and broad distribution.

Toolkit components include:

Presentation Template - a PowerPoint presentation file providing an overview of the research-based report and its discussion of key trends, significant challenges, and of the six technologies that hold promise for K-12 education in the next one to five years. In the Notes View of the file is a suggested script or set of notes that may be used for group presentations.
Discussion Facilitator's Guide - a document to be used in conjunction with the Presentation Template, providing guiding questions to pose to school district or education institution stakeholders to stimulate thinking about the technologies identified in the Report and to use for group reflection and discussion about them and other technologies of interest.
Discussion Activities - designed to engage stakeholders in dialogue to identify local instructional challenges, consider emerging technologies as solutions, and develop action plans.
Video Clips - produced by JDL Horizons, LLC, these include an overview and six video shorts of emerging technologies presented in the Report. Videos presented in a news story format describe classroom application of the technologies and insights from practitioners and students. These video resources are designed to supplement the presentation slides and to stimulate and facilitate local stakeholder conversation.