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Whether the digital era improves society is up to its users - that's us | Danah Boyd | ... - 4 views

  • a battle between those with utopian and dystopian viewpoints, over who can have a more extreme perspective on technology. So where's the middle ground?
  • With this complexity in mind, I would like to introduce a question that I have been struggling with for the past few years: what role does social media play in generating or spreading societal fear?
  • We fear the things – and people – that we do not understand far more than the things we do,
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  • The internet makes visible things that we want to see, but it also makes visible things that we don't want to see. It exposes us to people who are different. And this is the source of a great amount of fear.
  • Social media is here to stay. We need to get past the point in which we celebrate it or lament it in order to figure out how to live productively with it. We need people engaging critically with the dynamics that unfold as a result of a new structure of connecting people.
  • We all need to think critically about the information we create, consume and share. We all need to take responsibility for helping shape the world around us.
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Phil Taylor

Taming the Wild Wiki | Lesson - 0 views

  • Ask students what they think it means to say that a source is reliable. With the class, develop a definition of the term reliableas it relates to information sources.
Phil Taylor

What If School Was More Like Twitter? « My Island View - 0 views

  • What If School Was More Like Twitter?
  • Twitter offers a great deal of variety in opinion
  • Twitter offers us is the ability to respond to ideas and have a general discussion about those responses.
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  • Reflection is very big on Twitter
  • bulk of the information exchange available on Twitter for instance comes in the form of links, or URL’s, which are internet addresses to pages of information.
  • A big, big Twitter plus is the access educators have to education experts.
  • gateway to many free online webinars and online conference
  • On Twitter there are constant discussions and references to pedagogy and methodology in education
  • Twitter is only one source for teachers to connect. It is the easiest to use, and the hardest to understand. Teachers need to get started connecting to other teachers
Phil Taylor

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

  • 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

Building a professional learning network on Twitter « My Island View - 0 views

  • Building a professional Learning Network consisting of quality educators, who responsibly share quality information and sources, takes time and requires a plan. It is my belief that the people you follow are far more important than those who follow you.
  • How do you find those quality educators to follow in order to add value to your PLN?
Phil Taylor

- 10 Important Skills Students need for the Future - 4 views

  • However, in today's world of the web and smart phones, facts and content are less important. Students, and the workforce, need to know how to think critically, find and evaluate information, work in teams, communicate effectively, solve problems and apply knowledge and skills to new things and be able to learn on their own.
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Phil Taylor

Center on Instruction - 0 views

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