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Phil Taylor

Apps in Education: My E-Textbook Manifesto: - 8 views

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iPad textbooks eTextbooks apps

shared by Phil Taylor on 23 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • As educators what do we want from e-textbooks?
  • need to be visually stunning
  • e-textbooks need to have an inherent interactivity that engages
  • ...8 more annotations...
  • should be a fascinating read
  • e-Textbooks that are constantly update
  • able to change the variables so that the effects are changed accordingly
  • non-linear interactive media that allows the students the freedom to negotiate their own learning activities
  • visuals that can be dismantled in order to focus on one aspect
  • Can we monitor a students progress?
  • E-Textbooks are a tool, a tool that in the hands of good teachers and motivated students would produce some absolutely special results. E-Textbooks are only part of the solution. What we need is a situation where student buy-in to their own education. This is where you really see student engagement. 
  • What I really think is this! I think this is the most exciting time in history to be involved in education
John Evans

Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand - Blog - Bring Your Own - 3 views

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tony vincent byod BYOT

shared by John Evans on 14 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 14 Aug 12
     
    "In the spirit of bringing more opportunities into learning environments, more and more schools are inviting students to bring their own technology. Shortened as BYOT or BYOD for Bring Your Own Device, the concept is catching on."
Phil Taylor

Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think | Magazine - 2 views

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Amazon kindle bezos

shared by Phil Taylor on 19 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • It is a third gadget, the long-awaited Amazon tablet called the Kindle Fire, that represents his company’s most ambitious leap into the hearts, minds, and wallets of millions of consumers.
  • the Fire is an emblem of a post-web world, in which our devices are simply a means for us to directly connect with the goodies in someone’s data center.
  • Amazon, on the other hand, is a content-focused company—almost half of its revenue comes from sales of media like books, music, TV shows
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  • This keeps iPads tethered to the paradigm of local storage, putting a premium on machines with more memory (which cost hundreds of dollars more). Amazon, by contrast, emphasizes streaming.
John Evans

3 iPad Apps You May Not Know About for Demonstrating Learning - Learning in Hand - 5 views

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apps ipad demonstrating learning

shared by John Evans on 18 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 18 Mar 14
     
    "While there are so many iPad apps that deliver content, I think the one of the best uses for technology in education is to make something with what you're learning. This might include producing a video, authoring a digital book, recording a puppet show, creating a college, narrating a slideshow, designing a comic book, or somehow making your own media and study aids. Yes, there are loads of drill and skill apps, digital books, and electronic response systems that can be very useful in classrooms. What's much more exciting to me are apps that empower students to be creative and expressive."
John Evans

Three Free iPad Apps Students Can Use Over and Over - Learning in Hand - 2 views

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ipad apps ipaded storytelling

shared by John Evans on 24 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 14 Apr 15
     
    "There are already a lot of apps in Apple's App Store for iPad and iPhone (over 1.5 million), and more are added each day. In fact, this month an average of 1,400 apps have been submitted to the App Store. Despite the outrageous number of apps, only a small percentage end up piquing my interest. The apps I get most excited about are ones that are open-ended. I like to make things, and I love it when an app empowers students (and teachers) to create digital productions. Shadow Puppet Edu, Adobe Voice, and TeleStory are three apps that facilitate creativity. They provide students a way to retell stories, explain concepts, or persuade an audience."
John Evans

Paying for technology hinders move to 21st century classrooms | SeacoastOnline.com - 4 views

www.seacoastonline.com/...20101107-NEWS-11070338

technology 21stcenturylearning classrooms

shared by John Evans on 09 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • The landscape is changing, said Cathy Higgins, state educational technology director. "There's still a very essential place for books, our traditional concepts of schooling, but there's also a really important place for using the tools that are available to us in the rest of our lives," she said.
  • To be effective in using technology in the classroom, teachers need to create a "hybrid" model," Middaugh said. "You can't just have the technology. You've got to mix it with hands-on, old-school if you will. The combination is what's going to be most effective because there are different learners."
  • Portsmouth elementary teachers, who are on the front-lines of integrating technology into their classrooms, said the advances don't take up their everyday lesson plans, but supplement and enhance them
John Evans

Write or Wrong? Teachers Wary of Technology's Effects on Writing Skills - TheApple.com - 0 views

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theapple theapple.com technology writing skills

shared by John Evans on 24 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Inside the halls of West Junior High School, hand-written notes delivered during passing periods are a thing of the past. Cell phones, smuggled into the bathroom or concealed in the pocket of a hooded sweatshirt, trade text messages instead. Kate Welch, 42, teaches English to eighth- and ninth-graders. She says a student without a cell phone is a rarity. “And if they don’t have texting, they have abusive parents,” Welch says.
  • Kate Welch, 42, teaches English to eighth- and ninth-graders. She says a student without a cell phone is a rarity. “And if they don’t have texting, they have abusive parents,” Welch says.
  • Text messages, e-mails, instant messages — they’ve not replaced pencil and paper, but they are ways students communicate daily. The modern student has mastered the shorthand, condensed language of electronics by the time teachers introduce classic literature and formal writing.
John Evans

TheSpec.com - News - Hands-free cellphone may be legal but still unsafe - 0 views

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news thespec free cellphone cellphones safety

shared by John Evans on 03 Apr 10 - Cached
  • John Evans on 03 Apr 10
     
    "conclusion of a new report by the U.S. National Safety Council (NSC), which compiled 30 studies, including one from Transport Canada."
Phil Taylor

Lewisville's texting-in-class program gets thumbs-up from teachers, students | Dallas-Fort Worth Communities - News for Dallas, Texas - The Dallas Morning News - 1 views

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texting technology education edtech

shared by Phil Taylor on 03 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • “How is the Kashmir conflict more than just a religious battle?”Instead of raising their hands to respond, the students quietly began typing their answers into their smartphones, laptops and tablet computers arrayed on their desks. Almost immediately, their words appeared on an interactive whiteboard at the front of the class.
Phil Taylor

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

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1:1 laptops edtech teaching technology

shared by Phil Taylor on 18 Oct 11 - Cached
  • 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

Propping Up Your Tablet: Two Portable Stands - Learning in Hand - 4 views

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iPad stand

shared by John Evans on 22 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 22 Mar 15
     
    "If you happen to travel with your iPad or tablet and use it to present, you might be interested in a portable stand. Until recently, iPad stands where not very portable and impractical for me to take on my travels. Now I have two great options that fold flat and fit in my backpack: Justand Go ($79.00) and Belkin Stage Portable ($87.99)."
John Evans

Hands-on with iBooks Author 2.0 - iPad/iPhone - Macworld UK - 0 views

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ipad iphone iBooks Author

shared by John Evans on 03 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 03 Jan 13
     
    "Originally released in early 2012, Apple's education-themed ebook creation tool took bold steps as the first WYSIWYG program to export an ebook just as its author envisioned it. As I noted in my review of that software, however, the first version of iBooks Author was very much a 1.0 product, with strange omissions and odd workflows for users who didn't want to build textbooks. Ten months later, an updated version-iBooks Author 2.0 (Mac App Store)-brings simplified tools, new templates, portrait-only options, and a better publishing workflow to the table. Naturally, I couldn't resist taking the updated program for a spin."
John Evans

Video: "The Future Will Not be Multiple Choice" | MindShift - 1 views

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education Tedx future NOT multiple choice

shared by John Evans on 05 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • McGrath and Davies argue that school needs to keep up with the times by promoting creativity, entrepreneurship, design thinking and hands on skills
  • John Evans on 07 Feb 13
     
    "Educator Jaime McGrath and designer Drew Davies explain how to create a "classroom of imagination" by turning lessons into design problems and giving students space to be creative in this Tedx video. "
John Evans

Rock and Mineral Identifier | Class Tech Tips - 3 views

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science ipad geology rock mineral identifier

shared by John Evans on 12 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 12 Feb 13
     
    "I love hands-on science activities, especially when I can integrate technology into my lesson. Two fantastic free apps for Earth Science are Mineral Identifier and Common Rocks Reference. "
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