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Phil Taylor

How to Set Auto-Expiration Dates for Shared Folders in Google Drive - 3 views

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  • Set Expiration Dates & Temporarily Share Google Drive FoldersYou create a folder in Google Drive and share it with Public or a small group. You then specify a date/time when you want that shared link to expire. The script, at the specified time, will create a copy of your shared folder and delete the original one. Thus the shared links would no longer work though the folder and files will stay in your Google Drive.
John Evans

61 Educational Apps For The 21st Century Student - 7 views

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  • John Evans on 20 Apr 13
     
    "It's not entirely clear what it means to be a "21st century student." And in 2013, it's also not entirely clear what the definition of an "educational app" might be. Just as students are no longer tethered to textbooks (in most formal education settings), apps that are strictly didactic-designed to promote academic proficiency and foundational fluency-are often the first that parents and teachers reach for when looking for something "constructive." But the reality is, the 21st century is as much about finding, evaluating, managing, sharing, and curating information as it is reading texts, answering questions, and applying memorized formulas to neatly scaffolded problems."
Phil Taylor

The Web Revolution: This is Just the Beginning -- THE Journal - 6 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 05 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Ultimately, said Casap, the question isn't "how do we use technology in the classroom," but "how do we utilize the Web as a learning platform." It's no longer a question of what you want to be when you grow up, but what problem you want to solve. "The information is out there," he said, and we have to help them learn how to look for it, and how to make sense of it when they find it.
Phil Taylor

Guest Post | Three Starting Points for Thinking Differently About Learning - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 26 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • The last 15 Web-frenzied years have upended the basic premise of school. The idea that content and knowledge and teachers are scarce and have to be collected into a local classroom during a certain time period in order to educate our children is no longer true.
John Evans

11 tips that can help you learn faster - and actually remember it - ScienceAlert - 4 views

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shared by John Evans on 31 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 31 Aug 16
     
    "Kids can and should practice the skill of learning if they want a fighting chance at fulfilling all those lofty goals their parents set for them. But some people keep studying - and thinking - the same way all their lives without improving their methods.  Thankfully, cognitive science has taken a look at how people actually learn, and the results are surprising and super helpful."
Phil Taylor

SchoolCIO Blogs - DAILY INSIGHT: The past, the present, and the future, part 2 of 4 - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 04 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • we are experiencing are truly transformational, and the only way we have of coping with these changes is in learning how to be adaptable and learning how to be innovative.
  • The Internet is no longer just a consumer-based platform; the Internet is now a consumer/producer-based platform. Are we allowing our student to create content on the Internet? Are we allowing our students to blog, to communication, and to collaborate with other students all over the world? As educators, this is the challenge of our time; are we teaching like we taught yesterday, or are we teaching in order to prepare our students for their tomorrow?
Phil Taylor

Every Teacher an Innovator | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 04 May 14 - No Cached
  • What mindset do we want to instill in our students when they leave our classes and our schools?
  • In 2014, that's no longer a very good excuse for not leveraging technology to provide the best teaching as an educator. Using technology every day and being innovative aren't the same.
  • Phil Taylor on 04 May 14
     
    "What mindset do we want to instill in our students when they leave our classes and our schools?"
Phil Taylor

It's not about the technology…or is it? | The Principal of Change - 2 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 28 May 15 - No Cached
  • So yes, it is about the learning, but it is also about the technology and the opportunities that it provides us.  They are no longer separate.
Keri-Lee Beasley

Using Technology to Break the Speed Barrier of Reading - Scientific American - 1 views

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shared by Keri-Lee Beasley on 12 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Unfortunately, the system of reading we inherited from the ancient scribes —the method of reading you are most likely using right now — has been fundamentally shaped by engineering constraints that were relevant in centuries past, but no longer appropriate in our information age.
  • search for innovative engineering solutions aimed at making reading more efficient and effective for more people
  • But then, by chance, I discovered that when I used the small screen of a smartphone to read my scientific papers required for work, I was able to read with much greater facility and ease.
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  • hen, in a comprehensive study of over 100 high school students with dyslexia done in 2013, using techniques that included eye tracking, we were able to confirm that the shortened line formats produced a benefit for many who otherwise struggled with reading.
  • For example, Marco Zorzi and his colleagues in Italy and France showed in 2012 that when letter spacing is increased to reduce crowding, children with dyslexia read more effectively.
  • A clever web application called Beeline Reader, developed by Nick Lum, a lawyer from San Francisco, may accomplish something similar using colors to guide the reader’s attention forward along the line.  Beeline does this by washing each line of text in a color gradient, to create text that looks a bit like a tie-dyed tee-shirt.
  • one aims to increase the throughput of the brain’s reading buffers by changing their capacity for information processing, while the other seeks to activate alternate channels for reading that will allow information to be processed in parallel, and thereby increase the capacity of the language processing able to be performed during reading. 
  • The brain is said to be plastic, meaning that it is possible to change its abilities.
  • people can be taught to roughly double their reading speed, without compromising comprehension.
  • Consider that we process language, first and foremost, through speech. And yet, in the traditional design of reading we are forced to read using our eyes. Even though the brain already includes a fully developed auditory pathway for language, the traditional design for reading makes little use of the auditory processing capabilities of the brain
  • While the visual pathways are being strained to capacity by reading, the auditory network for language remains relatively under-utilized.
  • Importantly, our early indications suggest that the least effective method of reading may be the one society has been clinging to for centuries: reading on paper.
  • Keri-Lee Beasley on 12 Sep 15
     
    "Importantly, our early indications suggest that the least effective method of reading may be the one society has been clinging to for centuries: reading on paper."
John Evans

Brian Holmes' research blog: Understanding teachers' Continuous Professional Developmen... - 3 views

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shared by John Evans on 16 Aug 10 - Cached
  • 'The crucial point is that it is not the professional development per se, but the experience  of  successful  implementation  that  changes  teachers’  attitudes  and beliefs. They believe it works because they have seen it work, and that experience shapes their attitudes and beliefs' (Guskey, 2002, p.383)
  • 'In  comparison  to  the  traditional ‘one-hit’ workshops, these types of activities are usually longer in duration, allow teachers the opportunity to practise and reflect upon their teaching and are embedded in ongoing teaching activities' (Boyle et al, 2004, p.48)
  • John Evans on 16 Aug 10
     
    Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
Phil Taylor

How Gmail destroyed Outlook. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 30 Jan 09 - Cached
  • As of this week, Gmail has reached perfection: You no longer have to be online to read or write messages.
    • Phil Taylor
      Phil Taylor on 30 Jan 09
       
      If you use gMail, you will love this.
John Evans

Langwitches - Digital Storytelling with Google Maps - 1 views

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shared by John Evans on 11 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Thanks to a company named Google , we no longer are confined to a photo album, a world map with push pins or a heavy family atlas to connect stories and images from around the world. Thanks to Web 2.0 tools, we can mash-up media, such as photos, videos, audio, and links that take us to explore further to TELL a story in more detail and with more connections to the world around us than ever before. We can invite others to collaborate in telling a story that has many perspectives, memories, or meanings.
  • How can you or your students write a story with a map? Create a Scavenger Hunt around the World Use an image of a place anywhere on Earth or your own backyard as a story starter Map the settings of a book you are reading Write a collective "Where have you been this summer" as a class Follow a biography of an important character in history and events that influenced or were influenced by him Tell the story of learning (and where) that took place in your classroom in a  school year
  • John Evans on 11 Jul 08
     
    Great blog post on using Google Maps in the curriculum.
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