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Phil Taylor

Research dispels common ed-tech myths | Research | eSchoolNews.com - 4 views

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21stcenturyskills research technology k12 dispels myth plan

shared by Phil Taylor on 03 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Infrequent technology users do emphasize so-called 21st-century skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration in their instruction, the reports says—but frequent technology users place even more emphasis on these skills and report that technology has a positive impact on these skills in greater numbers.
Phil Taylor

Will Richardson: My Kids are Illiterate. Most Likely, Yours Are Too - 7 views

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literacy richardson education technology 21stCenturySkills

shared by Phil Taylor on 14 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • they're not "designing and sharing information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes." Nor are they "building relationships with others to solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally." And as far as "managing, analyzing and synthesizing multiple streams of information?"
  • National Council of Teachers of English feels a "literate person" should be able to do right now
  • If we don't talk about how learning is changing first, the schools we create will continue to be places of "tinkering on the edges" instead of truly changed spaces.
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  • the reality for my kids and yours is that they are going to be immersed in these spaces, potentially connecting and learning with two billion strangers, required to make sense of huge flows of information and creating and sharing their knowledge with the world. That is their reality; it wasn't ours.
John Evans

World Without Walls: Learning Well with Others | Edutopia - 0 views

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edutopia willrichardson article PLN network collaboration

shared by John Evans on 16 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Her response blew me away. "I ask my readers," she said. I doubt anyone in the room could have guessed that answer. But if you look at the Clustrmap on Laura's blog, Twenty Five Days to Make a Difference, you'll see that Laura's readers -- each represented by a little red dot -- come from all over the world. She has a network of connections, people from almost every continent and country, who share their own stories of service or volunteer to assist Laura in her work. She's sharing and learning and collaborating in ways that were unheard of just a few years ago.
  • Welcome to the Collaboration Age, where even the youngest among us are on the Web, tapping into what are without question some of the most transformative connecting technologies the world has ever seen.
  • The Collaboration Age is about learning with a decidedly different group of "others," people whom we may not know and may never meet, but who share our passions and interests and are willing to invest in exploring them together. It's about being able to form safe, effective networks and communities around those explorations, trust and be trusted in the process, and contribute to the conversations and co-creations that grow from them. It's about working together to create our own curricula, texts, and classrooms built around deep inquiry into the defining questions of the group. It's about solving problems together and sharing the knowledge we've gained with wide audiences.
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  • Inherent in the collaborative process is a new way of thinking about teaching and learning. We must find our own teachers, and they must find us.
  • As connectors, we provide the chance for kids to get better at learning from one another. Examples of this kind of schooling are hard to find so far, but they do exist. Manitoba, Canada, teacher Clarence Fisher and Van Nuys, California, administrator Barbara Barreda do it through their thinwalls project, in which middle school students connect almost daily through blogs, wikis, Skype, instant messaging, and other tools to discuss literature and current events. In Webster, New York, students on the Stream Team, at Klem Road South Elementary School, investigate the health of local streams and then use digital tools to share data and exchange ideas about stewardship with kids from other schools in the Great Lakes area and in California. More than learning content, the emphasis of these projects is on using the Web's social-networking tools to teach global collaboration and communication, allowing students to create their own networks in the process.
  • Collaboration in these times requires our students to be able to seek out and connect with learning partners, in the process perhaps navigating cultures, time zones, and technologies. It requires that they have a vetting process for those they come into contact with: Who is this person? What are her passions? What are her credentials? What can I learn from her?
  • Likewise, we must make sure that others can locate and vet us. The process of collaboration begins with our willingness to share our work and our passions publicly -- a frontier that traditional schools have rarely crossed. As Clay Shirky writes in Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, "knowingly sharing your work with others is the simplest way to take advantage of the new social tools." Educators can help students open these doors by deliberately involving outsiders in class work early on -- not just showcasing a finished product at the spring open house night.
John Evans

Neutral Riddle - 0 views

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flash game problem-solving riddle

shared by John Evans on 25 Aug 08 - Cached
  • John Evans on 25 Aug 08
     
    Basically, this a game where you have to get to the next screen, in any possible way. You'll have to change URLs, search google for answers, and many other things... It's not easy, so don't give up too early... good luck.
John Evans

Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover | Video on TED.com - 5 views

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math danmeyer TED TEDxNYED

shared by John Evans on 14 May 10 - Cached
  • Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.
Phil Taylor

FILLING THE TOOL BOX - 4 views

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questioning education research technology

shared by Phil Taylor on 18 Mar 11 - Cached
  • offered as practical, effective activities that help shift the focus of classrooms from teacher orchestrated mastery and memory of information to student processing of information to create understanding and improve problem-solving.
John Evans

Welcome to the Tricki | Tricki - 0 views

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math wiki MY SY

shared by John Evans on 30 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Welcome to a brand new Wiki-style site that is intended to develop into a large store of useful mathematical problem-solving techniques.
Phil Taylor

An ancient profession adjusts to the 21st-century global classroom - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 30 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • there’s a new emphasis on teaching critical thinking, problem solving and creativity.
  • “We give our teachers a lot of freedom in their work, much like academic professors,”
  • “This autonomy contributes to the popularity of the profession.… After that it’s easy for us when we have the right people.”
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