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Phil Taylor

Who Needs Ed Reform Anyway? - Technology Integration in Education - 2 views

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needs reform technology technology integration integration education

shared by Phil Taylor on 04 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • I want them to have the best education in the world. I do. I want it all! Truly, I do! So…what will it really take? Maybe this is something teachers could use some help on—I’m betting, somehow, we might be able to figure this out together.
Owen Fidler

Let It Marinate: The Importance of Reflection and Closing | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Owen Fidler on 30 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • In what different ways do you structure reflection and closings in your classroom?
    • Owen Fidler
      Owen Fidler on 02 May 14
       
      When working in 1:1 schools, there are so many ways to document and share bell work and end of class closings. It is even better to tie them together and gain further meaning... I.e. question for follow up is answered the following lesson.
  • John Evans on 30 Apr 14
     
    "I am one of those people who regularly figures out exactly what to say after the moment has passed. I will be deep in conversation with someone, sharing thoughts and bouncing around ideas. Yet, as the thoughts swirl, I'll have an unsettled feeling. Often it is not until some time later, when the ideas have marinated, that I realize what matters most to me and how to say it. I find that the flow of learning for many of my students matches my personal need for intellectual reflection. "
Phil Taylor

- Stop trying to figure out if screentime is good for students - 2 views

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students edtech change

shared by Phil Taylor on 04 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • study what happens when students use these devices to connect, develop, grow and create. We also need to understand that success in the 21st century can not be measured by the bubble tests that were created to measure an industrial model of schooling.
  •  Do we want students to read, write, calculate, receive instant feedback, make global connections, develop a learning network, publish to the world? Of course we do.
John Evans

Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Staff Development That Sticks - 0 views

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sourcebook PLN professional_learning

shared by John Evans on 19 Mar 09 - Cached
  • A gifted education specialist explains how to energize professional development while minding your budget.
  • Effective professional development walks that fine line between satisfying the teachers and satisfying building-level, district-level, state-level, or national-level expectations of what teachers need to be learning. If we focus solely on what teachers request, some important topics could be overlooked. But if we focus solely on fulfilling bureaucratic expectations, the teachers can become a less-than-receptive audience.
  • My district has implemented a few strategies in recent years that have proven to be very effective. Perhaps some of these ideas could work in your location as well. • Give teachers a role in planning
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  • • Get feedback
  • • Use your local resources
  • • Make time Build in time for teachers to figure out how to use what they've learned.
  • • Practice what you preach
  • • Model good-learner strategies and protocol
Phil Taylor

TCEA Top Story - Web 2.0: What does the future hold for schools? - 0 views

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web2.0 education future

shared by Phil Taylor on 07 Feb 09 - Cached
  • "We haven't figured out how to leverage Web 2.0 yet" in schools, Bower said. Instead of pushers and producers of content knowledge, he added, teachers must become pullers and directors.
    • John Evans
      John Evans on 07 Feb 09
       
      Nice description!
  • "When an administrator says, ‘Show me the proof,' just point at the current state of schools," Bower said. "If we're not engaging these kids, they're not learning.
  • TCEA panel says Web 2.0 marks a complete shift from the old models of instruction ... and schools need to shift accordingly
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  • way we learn hasn't really changed over the years; what has changed has been the medium for this instruction.
Phil Taylor

LwICT - Did You Know? - LwICT - 0 views

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lwict

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    • Phil Taylor
      Phil Taylor on 12 Mar 09
       
      Well done John. Nice to see the various facts and figures.
John Evans

The Best Way to Use the Last Five Minutes of Your Day - Peter Bregman - Harvard Busines... - 7 views

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shared by John Evans on 07 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • There's a simple reason for it: we rarely take the time to pause, breathe, and think about what's working and what's not. There's just too much to do and no time to reflect. I was once asked: if an organization could teach only one thing to its employees, what single thing would have the most impact? My answer was immediate and clear: teach people how to learn. How to look at their past behavior, figure out what worked, and repeat it while admitting honestly what didn't and change it.
Phil Taylor

Seth's Blog: The future of the library - 2 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 31 May 11 - No Cached
  • The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work at a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.
  • They need a librarian more than ever (to figure out creative ways to find and use data). They need a library not at all.
Phil Taylor

On Ed Tech, We're Asking the Wrong Question | The Committed Sardine - 7 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 19 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • In the end, that’s all technology is, too—a resource. In the hands of talented and well-trained teachers, it can facilitate high-quality teaching and learning; when used by average teachers, it most likely will lead to average results. And in either case, it’s not entirely clear whether test scores would rise, anyway—for reasons I’ll discuss later.
  • There is plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that, when used wisely, technology is a powerful resource that can help boost achievement.
  • I would argue that’s the point: You can’t separate the technology from the rest of the learning process, because they are inextricably bound.
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  • But technology doesn’t exist in a vacuum. For technology to have an impact on student achievement, schools also need sound teaching, strong leadership, fidelity of use, and a supportive culture, among other things.
  • Among schools with one-to-one computing programs, 70 percent reported their students’ achievement scores on high-stakes tests were on the rise. But this figure was 85 percent for schools that employed certain strategies for success, including the use of electronic formative assessments on a regular basis, frequent collaboration of teachers in professional learning communities, and—most importantly—strong principal and school district leadership.
Phil Taylor

When Like doesn't mean like: Experts say there's nuance to Facebook behaviour - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 26 Jan 15 - No Cached
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  • "But a lot of this has to do with the nature of social media itself and its relative newness and culture. Grownups and teenagers and youth alike have to figure this out."
Phil Taylor

EdTechTeam: Why Schools Need to Teach Technology, Not Ban It! - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 26 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • We are at a crossroads in education where we need to figure out how we should be dealing with the issues that arise from this new “digital” generation of students.
John Evans

Is Coding the New Literacy? | Mother Jones - 2 views

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coding literacy mother jones

shared by John Evans on 18 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • What if learning to code weren't actually the most important thing? It turns out that rather than increasing the number of kids who can crank out thousands of lines of JavaScript, we first need to boost the number who understand what code can do. As the cities that have hosted Code for America teams will tell you, the greatest contribution the young programmers bring isn't the software they write. It's the way they think. It's a principle called "computational thinking," and knowing all of the Java syntax in the world won't help if you can't think of good ways to apply it.
  • Researchers have been experimenting with new ways of teaching computer science, with intriguing results. For one thing, they've seen that leading with computational thinking instead of code itself, and helping students imagine how being computer savvy could help them in any career, boosts the number of girls and kids of color taking—and sticking with—computer science. Upending our notions of what it means to interface with computers could help democratize the biggest engine of wealth since the Industrial Revolution.
  • Much like cooking, computational thinking begins with a feat of imagination, the ability to envision how digitized information—ticket sales, customer addresses, the temperature in your fridge, the sequence of events to start a car engine, anything that can be sorted, counted, or tracked—could be combined and changed into something new by applying various computational techniques. From there, it's all about "decomposing" big tasks into a logical series of smaller steps, just like a recipe.
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  • Because as programmers will tell you, the building part is often not the hardest part: It's figuring out what to build. "Unless you can think about the ways computers can solve problems, you can't even know how to ask the questions that need to be answered," says Annette Vee, a University of Pittsburgh professor who studies the spread of computer science literacy.
  • John Evans on 18 Jun 14
     
    "Unfortunately, the way computer science is currently taught in high school tends to throw students into the programming deep end, reinforcing the notion that code is just for coders, not artists or doctors or librarians. But there is good news: Researchers have been experimenting with new ways of teaching computer science, with intriguing results. For one thing, they've seen that leading with computational thinking instead of code itself, and helping students imagine how being computer savvy could help them in any career, boosts the number of girls and kids of color taking-and sticking with-computer science. Upending our notions of what it means to interface with computers could help democratize the biggest engine of wealth since the Industrial Revolution."
John Evans

Edutech for Teachers » Blog Archive » Grab a Piece of the Pi Using Cool Class... - 2 views

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math resources Pi day

shared by John Evans on 11 Mar 17 - No Cached
  • ey, math gurus! It’s that time of year again when teachers, students and mathematicians from all over the world honor the fun-loving irrational Greek figure pi (π). That’s right! March 14—or Pi Day—is just around the corner so be sure you don’t miss this opportunity to make a lasting impression on your math students!
Phil Taylor

Wolfram Programming Lab: Computational Thinking Starts Here - 1 views

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programming wolfram computational thinking

shared by Phil Taylor on 09 Sep 16 - No Cached
  • Wolfram Programming Lab has a step-by-step introductory programming course built right in. Written by Stephen Wolfram himself, An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language teaches you the basics of the Wolfram Language in a straightforward, accessible way—even if you've never coded before
  • The Wolfram Language concept: make the language do the work, not you! Automate as much as possible, so you write a tiny piece of code, and the computer figures out everything else.
Phil Taylor

The most important skill of the 21st century - 1 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 09 Oct 19 - No Cached
  • The internet is still young, and it is still learning to organize itself. But until it does, the most important skill in the 21st century will be the ability to rationally refine the sense-making apparatus of our mind.
  • The first is to do the work to figure out which information should be consumed and which should be discarded — consciously, beyond our personal biases, and ideally, from as many diverse perspectives as possible; the second is to just step away from it all to simply think about what is consumed and how it all connects.
  • If we don’t effectively use our tools, our tools end up using us. In the 21st century, the difference will be determined by how we manage information.
Phil Taylor

The Concurrent Classroom: Using Blended Learning Models to Teach Students In-person and... - 1 views

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blended learning blended models teach students online

shared by Phil Taylor on 02 Sep 20 - No Cached
  • As the new school year begins, teachers must be gentle with themselves. We don’t need to be experts. We don’t need to pretend that we have this all figured out. We need to be vulnerable and honest with our students and remind them that we are learning right alongside them.
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