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Phil Taylor

Powerpoint Schmowerpoint: Teach kids to create really engaging presentations - 1 views

  • At its core, what’s the point of tech integration? I would argue that it isn’t to teach students how to use a single tool – any tool we teach kids to use now will most likely be obsolete by the time they enter the workforce. But just like we don’t teach students to read every book they’ll ever encounter, we don’t need to teach them to use every tech tool they’ll ever encounter. Rather, we need to teach them the skills – the grammar, the phonics – that will allow them to navigate the tech tools they will eventually use.
Phil Taylor

Tools for Teaching: How to Transform Direct Instruction | Edutopia - 1 views

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    "Tools for Teaching: How to Transform Direct Instruction"
Phil Taylor

iPads can't improve learning without good teaching Pt 1 - 0 views

  • Its about Teaching and Learning, not iPads
  • there is no real shift in the learning and teaching model here from the pre-iPad model. Same work, different set of tools.
  • no thoughtful plan
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  • The iPad can just be an engaging but expensive replacement for books and handouts. Or it can completely change the way we go about note taking
Phil Taylor

Great Tech Tools - 2 views

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    " compiled a list of technology tools focused on learning goals consistent with the CRCD framework"
Phil Taylor

Education Week's Digital Directions: Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Lear... - 0 views

  • Some of the latest technology tools for the classroom, however, promise to ease the challenges of differentiating instruction more creatively and effectively, ed-tech experts say, even in an era of high-stakes federal and state testing mandates. New applications for defining and targeting students’ academic strengths and weaknesses can help teachers create a personal playlist of lessons, tools, and activities that deliver content in ways that align with individual needs and optimal learning methods.
  • Preliminary data showed significant student progress toward mastering the skills targeted in the program, officials say
  • “By leveraging technology to play a role in the delivery of instruction,” he says, “we can help to complement what live teachers do.”
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  • Making the Transition Experts caution, however, that instituting such large-scale change is not simply a matter of putting new tools in place. As in San Diego, most teachers will need extensive professional development to use digital tools and learn the best ways of teaching with technology.
  • ‘Feedback to Children’
  • “We have this generation of students that yearns to customize everything they come into contact with,”
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