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Phil Taylor

More powerful pencils: 1:1 Laptop Programs and 21st century learning « 21k12 - 6 views

  • it is not because they had a 1-1 program in itself that made them so, but because they had a classroom culture of student inquiry, of research, collaboration, and on-line publishing, all of which were well supported by the laptops in students’ hands.
  •   “Laptop computers [would not be] technological tools; rather, [they would be] cognitive tools that are holistically integrated into the teaching and learning processes of their school.”
  • One of the best sections of this article speaks right to this, as it advocates schools to bring the students to the table: But it’s not just teachers who experts say must be involved in the 1-to-1 planning process—students should be, too.
John Evans

2024 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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    "Moving from reaction to action, higher education stakeholders are currently exploring the opportunities afforded by AI for teaching, learning, and work while maintaining a sense of caution for the vast array of risks AI-powered technologies pose. To aid in these efforts, we present this inaugural EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study, in which we summarize the higher education community's current sentiments and experiences related to strategic planning and readiness, policies and procedures, workforce, and the future of AI in higher education. This survey was distributed from November 27 to December 8, 2023, and focuses on the impacts AI has had on higher education since the mainstreaming of generative AI tools."
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Louise Robinson-Lay

iPad Literature Circles - Literature Circles - 1 views

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    "Conducting Literature Circle with mobile devices such as the iPad, not only provides immediate access to a diverse selection of books, but also to reference materials, research tools, interactive maps, and a slew of creation and dynamic notebook apps. Within this single device, students can quickly check the meaning of a word, run a quick background check on a historic event, or articulate their understanding of text with a range of multimedia apps. Teachers can now easily differentiate the processes students can use to demonstrate understanding. "
Phil Taylor

Evaluating Apple's Foray into the Textbook Market - iPads in Education - 2 views

  • This is a tool educators were missing in this digital learning environment
  • Why not have each student either research or explain the topics and present the results in a student created etextbook that is submitted at the end of the year for final grading?
Phil Taylor

The dumbest generation? No, Twitter is making kids smarter - The Globe and Mail - 4 views

  • The only way to tell whether kids today are really less coherent or literate than their great-grandparents is to compare student writing across the past century
  • Over the past century, the freshman composition papers had exploded in length and intellectual complexity.
  • Prof. Lunsford’s research has found, 40 per cent of all writing is done outside the classroom – it’s “life writing,” stuff students do socially, or just for fun.
Sheri Oberman

e-learning, conocimiento en red - 0 views

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    BeLearning uses new technologies combining meeting, working and researching involving virtual spaces, digital tools and online platforms in a rich mix of interactions with traditional media: presentations, workshops, classes. Please see the 44 page pdf for the BeLearning Methodology, which starts with exploration, goes to divergence and ends in convergence.
John Evans

Industry Pitching Cellphones as a Teaching Tool - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • The cellphone industry has a suggestion for improving the math skills of American students: spend more time on cellphones in the classroom.
  • Some critics already are denouncing the effort as a blatantly self-serving maneuver to break into the big educational market. But proponents of selling cellphones to schools counter that they are simply making the same kind of pitch that the computer industry has been profitably making to educators since the 1980s.
  • “This is a device kids have, it’s a device they are familiar with and want to take advantage of,” said Shawn Gross, director of Digital Millennial Consulting, which received a $1 million grant from Qualcomm to conduct the research.
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