Contents contributed and discussions participated by Phil Taylor
Are Our Educators Prepared For Their Students? | My Island View - 4 views
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The past learning experiences of educators are so different from the current and evolving experiences of their students that relevance as an educator is extremely important.
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In the 20th century information was for the most part slower to change and often controlled by a small group of power brokers.
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Smartphones, which are not really phones, but powerful computers with phone capabilities.
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2013 Schedule | K12 Online Conference - 24 views
Patience for the Unconnected | My Island View - 13 views
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Connected educators may be the worst advocates for getting other educators to connect.
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The idea of collaborative learning is that we are all in this together, and together we are better and smarter than we are individually.
The Google Glass feature no one is talking about - Creative Good - 55 views
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Google Glass experience is not the user experience – it’s the experience of everyone else. The experience of being a citizen, in public, is about to change.
The Use and Abuse of Technology in the Classroom - 76 views
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Technology should not just allow us to do traditional in a different way; it should allow us to do things that we thought were not possible.
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Technology should be for accessing what was inaccessible.
Top 10 Educational Technology Blogs for Teachers - 68 views
Combine Our Devices: Reshaping BYOD - 19 views
Apps in Education: Beginner's Guide to iOS Development: The Interface - Part 1 - 39 views
Connecting Your Classroom to the Future - 44 views
Online bullying: Still way less common than in real life | Safe and Secure - CNET News - 13 views
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Pew Internet & American Life Project for the Family Online Safety Institute and Cable in the Classroom--concluded that "[m]ost American teens who use social media say that in their experience, people their age are mostly kind to one another on social network sites." Nearly seven in ten (69 percent) of teens said that peers are mostly kind while 20 percent said peers are mostly unkind with 11 percent saying, "it depends."
Reading a Book Versus a Screen: Different Reading Devices, Different Modes of Reading?|... - 25 views
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"This study provides us with a scientific basis for dispelling the widespread misconception that reading from a screen has negative effects," explains Füssel. "There is no (reading) culture clash – whether it is analog or digital, reading remains the most important cultural technology."
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"We have thus demonstrated that the subjective preference for the printed book is not an indicator of how fast and how well the information is processed," concludes Professor Schlesewsky