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Phil Taylor

6 Top Tech Trends on the Horizon for Higher Education - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of... - 0 views

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  • notes that mobile devices have been listed before, but it says that resistance by many schools continues to slow the full integration of mobile devices into higher education.
  • Learning analytics
  • Challenges to adoption include incorporating information coming from a variety of sources and in different formats and concerns about privacy and profiling.
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  • Augmented reality, the layering of virtual information over actual locations, such as an interactive, mobile-based museum map, is another up-and-coming trend. It is two to three years away from adoption in education.
Phil Taylor

16 Ways the 2016 Horizon Report Indicates That Higher Ed is Undergoing a Seismic Shift ... - 0 views

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  • Phil Taylor on 16 Feb 16
     
    "16 Ways the 2016 Horizon Report Indicates That Higher Ed is Undergoing a Seismic Shift"
Phil Taylor

Why Google+ Could be a Game-Changer in Higher Education - Century College Marketing Pro... - 0 views

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google+ education

shared by Phil Taylor on 11 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • instructors have blasted Facebook (and rightfully so) for its poor privacy protections.
  • Google+ allows a person to place all of their contacts into Circles, allowing a user to control with great precision who among their contacts will have access to which bits of shared content.
Phil Taylor

Hey Higher Ed, Why Not Focus On Teaching? : NPR Ed : NPR - 0 views

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teaching lectures

shared by Phil Taylor on 11 Jun 17 - No Cached
  • You argue that the well-established, traditional, large lecture format still used widely today across higher education is ineffectual. Why?
Phil Taylor

21st Century Competencies - 0 views

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competencies change education plan

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  • education is falling behind the curve,1 as it did during the rapid changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution.
  • The last major changes to cur­riculum2 were effected in the late 1800s as a response to the sudden growth in societal and human capital needs
  • Having students develop deep knowledge is as essential as ever. But today, we must also make that knowledge relevant.
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  • Tough choices must be made regarding what to pare back in order to allow for more appropriate areas of focus
  • we need to infuse “themes” — important lenses such as global literacy, environmental literacy, information literacy, digital literacy, systems thinking, and design thinking
  • Higher-order skills such as the “4 C’s” — creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration4 — are essential for deeply learning knowledge as well as for demonstrating understanding through performance.
  • Character is about how we engage in the world.
  • Meta-learning is the awareness of one’s own learning and cognitive ability. Having such an awareness is the best hedge against continuous changes.
  • Historical inertia has been a large deciding factor when it comes to curriculum design, at the policy/process level.
  • we must keep two key questions before us at all times: Is education relevant enough for this century? Are we educating students to be versatile in a world that is increasingly challenged and challenging?
  • The Opportunity for Independent Schools
Phil Taylor

Educators Must Accept Tech Methods, Higher Ed Leaders Say - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 08 Jun 17 - No Cached
  • Less discussed is how to mix online tools with in-person college classrooms. And some technology proponents say faculty need to do this effectively on a large scale to prepare students for life beyond college - and to make sure college stays relevant to a generation that has spent most of their lives on digital devices.
  • "I don't know if we can continue to pretend that we operate in analog environments and still prepare students for the digital world."
Phil Taylor

No Facebook or Twitter in Class? Try These Teaching Work-Arounds | EdTech Magazine - 1 views

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education technology resources web2.0 teaching learning

shared by Phil Taylor on 21 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Perhaps more important than the content we teach are the life skills we model by embracing these ­concepts. Using social media in the classroom allows teachers to remind students of the power their words can have online. This understanding will be crucial as they head to ­college, start a career and become adults in a ­digital world.
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    Anyone can look up Benjamin Franklin on Wikipedia and create a PowerPoint presentation of the information found there. Creating a fake Facebook wall for Benjamin Franklin that delivers the same ­information, but from the perceived perspective of Benjamin Franklin himself, adds a level of higher-order thinking to the activity that students will long remember.
Phil Taylor

Creating and Maintaining a Professional Presence Online: A Roundup and Reflection - Pro... - 1 views

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career Onlinepresence education

shared by Phil Taylor on 04 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Creating and Maintaining a Professional Presence Online: A Roundup and Reflection
Phil Taylor

Don't Confuse Technology With Teaching - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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education Technology

shared by Phil Taylor on 16 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Phil Taylor on 16 Aug 12
     
    "A set of podcasts is the 21st-century equivalent of a textbook, not the 21st-century equivalent of a teacher"
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