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Phil Taylor

Online Learning is so last year… | 21st Century Collaborative - 9 views

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  • Here are the kinds of things I believe need to be happening as learners come together in online communities of practice.
Phil Taylor

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

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  • 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.
John Evans

How to set your Google Plus Profile and Edtech Communities to follow if you are a teacher | Tablets For Schools - 1 views

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shared by John Evans on 05 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 05 Jun 14
     
    "Want to use Google+ to connect with other education and technology enthusiasts, but not sure where to start? Set aside 20 minutes and you too can be a part of the vibrant EdTech community on Google+."
John Evans

Gartner's top 10 technology trends for 2015: All about the cloud - TechRepublic - 4 views

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shared by John Evans on 04 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 04 Nov 14
     
    "Gartner analysts suggest you keep a close eye on the items listed in its latest trend report. Michael Kassner examines the technologies on the list and finds a common thread: cloud. "
David McGavock

Weblogg-ed » Personal Learning Networks (An Excerpt) - 0 views

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shared by David McGavock on 03 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Seventh/eighth grade teacher Clarence Fisher has an interesting way of describing his classroom up in Snow Lake, Manitoba. As he tells it, it has “thin walls,” meaning that despite being eight hours north of the nearest metropolitan airport, his students are getting out into the world on a regular basis, using the Web to connect and collaborate with students in far flung places from around the globe.
  • there is still value in the learning that occurs between teachers and students in classrooms. But the power of that learning is more solid and more relevant at the end of the day if the networks and the connections are larger.”
  • But, what happens when knowledge and teachers aren’t scarce? What happens when it becomes exceedingly easy to people and content around the things you want to learn when you want to learn them?
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  • given these opportunities for connection that the Web now brings us, schools will have to start leveraging the power of these networks. And here are the two game-changing conditions that make that statement hard to deny: right now, if we have access, we now have two billion potential teachers and, soon, the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips.
  • The kids have made contacts. They have begun to find voices that are meaningful to them, and voices they are interested in hearing more from. They are becoming connectors and mavens, drawing together strings of a community.
  • What happens when we don’t need schools to manage the delivery of content any more, when we can get it on our own, anytime we need it, from anywhere we’re connected, from anyone who might be connected with us?
  • And it’s not so much even what we carry around in our heads, all of that “just in case” knowledge that schools are so good at making sure students get these days. As Jay Cross, the author of Informal Learning, suggests, in a connected world, it’s more about how much knowledge you can access.
  • If you’re seeing a vision of students sitting in front of computers working through self-paced curricula and interacting with a teacher only on occasion, you’re way, way off. That’s not effective online learning
  • David McGavock on 03 Jul 14
     
    Most schools were built upon the idea that knowledge and teachers are scarce. When you have limited access to information and you want to deliver what you do have to every citizen in an age with little communication technology, you build what schools are today: age-grouped, discipline-separated classrooms run by an expert adult who can manage the successful completion of the curriculum by a hundred or so students at a time. We mete out that knowledge in discrete parts, carefully monitoring students progress through one-size-fits all assessments, deeming them "educated" when they have proven their mastery at, more often than not, getting the right answer and, to a lesser degree, displaying certain skills that show a "literacy" in reading and writing. Most of us know these systems intimately, and for 120 years or so, they've pretty much delivered what we've asked them to.
Alan Davison

Mobile Magazine $129 7 inch IPad alternative - 0 views

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  • Alan Davison on 02 Mar 12
     
    You thought the $199 Kindle Fire was a good deal? You thought OLPC was doing the right thing with cheap laptops? Archos is going even further with the announcement of the Child Pad, a seven-inch kid-friendly tablet that runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich right out of the box.
diwakar verma

Mind Blown... Things have really changed over the last two decades - 0 views

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  • diwakar verma on 02 Mar 14
     
    You will be surprised at how much life has changed in the past 20 years...
John Evans

8 Things to Look for in Today's Professional Learning (Part 2) | The Principal of Change - 1 views

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shared by John Evans on 10 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 10 Apr 15
     
    "Rationale: The opportunities for learning in our world today are immense and we need to take advantage of the opportunities that are presented to us.  We not only have access to all of the information in our world today, but we have access to one another.  This has a major impact in our learning today. What I have started to notice is that you can see some major benefits of being connected in the classroom for the learning environment of our students. Access to one another can accelerate and amplify powerful learning opportunities."
Nigel Coutts

Confronting our fears in the haunted house of the unknown - 3 views

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shared by Nigel Coutts on 15 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 15 Feb 15
     
    A recent lesson with my Year Six class reminded me of the fear teachers face when confronted by the unknown. I thought the lesson would go quite smoothly, I have taught it before but this time things went in an unexpected and frightening direction.
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