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Phil Taylor

My View: Are electronic media making us less (or more) literate?| The Committed Sardine - 3 views

  • The challenge for all of us - students, parents and educators alike - is to understand that these modes of online writing with which so many people engage today are writing. Rather than dismissing these digital exchanges as silly or superficial, we should put them to work for us
Phil Taylor

PostDewey | Learning to Change - Changing to Learn - 5 views

  • More than a century ago (1902), his essay “The Child and the Curriculum” proposed a relationship between teaching and learning the old way (curriculum centric) and the new way (child centric). Reminding me of the typically Canadian appreciation of compromise, the essay blends a solution based on the readiness of the young learner with his/her need to acquire structured knowledge (curriculum).
John Evans

Earth Calendar - 6 views

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    find holidays and important dates from around the world easily
John Evans

Connexions content now available as e-books -Rice Iniversity - 4 views

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    All content from Rice University's open education initiative Connexions is now available for download as e-books. Connexions rolled out the availability of more than 1,000 titles this week in the popular EPUB file format. EPUB is the standard used by most smart phones and e-readers worldwide. The files can be accessed with enTourage's eDGe, Apple's iPad and iPhone and with Google's Android, among others.
anonymous

Books in the Age of the iPad - Craig Mod - 5 views

  • Important to note is that these aren’t complaints about the text losing meaning. Books don’t become harder to understand, or confusing just because they’re digital. It’s mainly issues concerning quality.
  • We're going to see new forms of storytelling emerge from this canvas. This is an opportunity to redefine modes of conversation between reader and content.
Phil Taylor

The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators - 11 views

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    This is one of the best livebinders I have ever seen for digital tools. Well done a great piece of work.
Phil Taylor

Where's the Innovation? | always learning - 0 views

  • Generally speaking, schools are excruciatingly slow to change. Even when schools are making a concerned effort to be innovative and re-think traditional modes of learning, it often ends up being a variation of what’s already in place.
  • has to be driven by a focus on authentic learning and learner competency. What can our students do? What should they be able to do? How do we help them become capable of doing the things that really matter?
John Evans

iLearn No. 2: Learning Made Mobile - 0 views

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    100 + Apps for Learning
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