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Top 10 Educational Technology Hashtags for Educators - 0 views

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    "Top 10 Educational Technology Hashtags for Educators"
Phil Taylor

Free Technology for Teachers: New Google in Education Ebook and Website - 1 views

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    Yesterday, the Google Apps for Education team published a new ebook (PDF) titled A New and Open World for Learning. A New and Open World for Learning is all about using Google's products and services in education. The ebook is clearly a marketing vehicle for Google Apps for Education, but you will find some good examples of and ideas for using Google apps in your school.
Phil Taylor

A Principal's Reflections: Common Misconceptions of Educators Who Fear Technology - 2 views

  • Common Misconceptions of Educators Who Fear Technology
  • Control: For technology to be not only integrated effectively, but also embraced, a culture needs to be established where teachers and administrators are no longer fearful of giving up a certain amount of control to students.  T
  • Lack of training: With the integration of technology comes change.  With change comes the inevitable need to provide quality professional development. 
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  • We are beginning to see some schools across the country take the lead in merging sound pedagogy with the effective integration of technology.  These schools and educators, whether they realize it or not, are not only enhancing the teaching and learning process, but they are also providing their learners with essential skill sets pivotal for success in today’s society.  These skill sets include critical thinking/problem solving, media literacy, collaboration, creativity, technological proficiency, and global awareness.  The ultimate result with this shift has been increases in engagement as well as a sense of relevancy and meaning amongst learners, all of which are foundations for improving achievement.
Phil Taylor

Survey reveals educators' must-have technologies | 21st Century Education | eSchoolNews... - 0 views

  • Interactive whiteboards are the classroom technology that teachers say they most value, and though tablet-style eReader devices such as Apple’s iPad haven’t been around for long, they’re already considered the second most useful mobile classroom technology behind laptops,
  • 60 percent of their time using educational resources in the classroom that are either free or paid for by the teachers themselves.
Phil Taylor

What comes first: education or technology? - ICT & Computing in Education - 0 views

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    "What comes first: education or technology?"
Phil Taylor

The 10 Most Important Emerging Instructional and Education Technologies and Concepts - 0 views

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    "The 10 Most Important Emerging Instructional and Education Technologies and Concepts"
Phil Taylor

Common Misunderstandings of Educators Who Fear Technology | Teach.com - 1 views

  • ultimate result with this shift has been increases in engagement as well as a sense of relevancy and meaning amongst learners, all of which are foundations for improving achievement.
  • some of the reasons for not embracing technology have to do with several misconceptions revolving around fear.
  • time excuse seems to rear its ugly head more than any other reasoning to not move forward with technology
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  • For technology to be not only integrated effectively but also embraced, a culture needs to be established where teachers and administrators are no longer fearful of giving up a certain amount of control to students
  • Many educators fear technology as they feel there is not or will not be the appropriate level of training to support implementation.
Phil Taylor

Media and Technology Resources for Educators | Common Sense Media - 0 views

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    "Media and Technology Resources for Educators"
Phil Taylor

10 questions to ask when choosing education technology | eSchool News | eSchool News - 0 views

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    "10 questions to ask when choosing education technology"
Phil Taylor

Revisiting if Educational Technology Is Worth the Hype | Edutopia - 0 views

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    " is educational technology worth the hype? No, not if the emphasis is business as usual with a few more bells and whistles"
Phil Taylor

T.I.E. for iPad on the iTunes App Store - 0 views

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    Technology Integration in Education is an App that does away with the hours of searching the net for the right instructional technology resources for you. TIE is the one stop location for everything related to educational technology.
Phil Taylor

What Is Technology? « My Island View - 3 views

  • what we consider to be technology, is totally dependent on when it was introduced into our lives.
  • Rarely do we refer to it or even think about the car as technology, because it has always been with us.
  • Educators should not be so arrogant as to think they have the ability to decide whether or not kids can use these tools for learning. The kids do it with, or without adult permission. Any educator has the right to choose to live in a cave, however, they do not have the right to drag their students in there with them.
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  • As long as these technologies exist and continue to move forward, we as educators have an obligation to teach responsible and thoughtful use of these tools.
Phil Taylor

Anatomy of Successful 21st Century Student ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 0 views

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    "We make technology a pivot around which revolves learning when in fact technology is only a means to an end. Equating 21st century education with digital know-how per se is a blatant fallacy."
Phil Taylor

Technology in Schools: Defining the Terms | Edutopia - 1 views

  • What are the fundamental, basic, non-negotiable principles upon which to base technology in schools? To name a few possibilities:
  • What are ways that you have had the conversation about technology in your school? And what definition of technology are you using?
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    "When technology arises in discussion among educators and parents, the conversation often turns to an issue of human behavior"
Phil Taylor

The Pervasiveness of Technology: Why We Have To Face Up {Technology in Education, 21st ... - 0 views

  • CBC documentary
  • it is essential that there is a purpose, and pedagogic purpose to the activities we do with technology
  • f we stand a chance of having students ‘unplug’ themselves willingly and engage in ‘deeper thought’ more often than ‘superficial thought’ in their leisure or work, they must understand why deeper thought is more important, and why it is better to put it before the ‘rush’ and instant gratification of technology.
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  • they are given direction and purposeful tasks to complete with the technology, and it is used for tasks that generally cannot be achieved through other means.
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      The reason when to use technology.
  • tech for learning
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