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Mind Over Mass Media| The Committed Sardine - 1 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 24 Jun 10 - Cached

NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers’ brainpower and moral fiber.
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Experience does not revamp the basic information-processing capacities of the brain. Speed-reading programs have long claimed to do just that, but the verdict was rendered by Woody Allen after he read “War and Peace” in one sitting: “It was about Russia.” Genuine multitasking, too, has been exposed as a myth, not just by laboratory studies but by the familiar sight of an S.U.V. undulating between lanes as the driver cuts deals on his cellphone.
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And to encourage intellectual depth, don’t rail at PowerPoint or Google. It’s not as if habits of deep reflection, thorough research and rigorous reasoning ever came naturally to people. They must be acquired in special institutions, which we call universities, and maintained with constant upkeep, which we call analysis, criticism and debate.
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Do Students Know Enough Smart Learning Strategies? | MindShift - 1 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 04 May 12 - No Cached

Teaching students good learning strategies would ensure that they know how to acquire new knowledge
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Students who use appropriate strategies to understand and remember what they read, such as underlining important parts of the texts or discussing what they read with other people, perform at least 73 points higher in the PISA assessment—that is, one full proficiency level or nearly two full school years
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Students can assess their own awareness by asking themselves which of the following learning strategies they regularly use (the response to each item is ideally “yes”):
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One-to-One or BYOD? Districts Explain Thinking Behind Student Computing Initiatives | E... - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 03 Apr 12 - No Cached

the district shelved the idea when it became apparent that students preferred using their personal mobile devices and that the cost of buying and refreshing notebooks every three to four years would be prohibitive
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surveyed the 155 eighth-graders participating in the pilot, they learned something interesting: Although students loved the idea of having their own computer to do their homework, 52 percent of them were using their personal computers rather than those issued by the school
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IT department beefed up the wireless network in its two middle schools and the high school and standardized on a set of cloud-based applications
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Google Apps' productivity and collaboration tools, and connect to the Moodle course management system, where they can access reading materials and other course content and participate in discussion forums and live chats.
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To implement BYOD successfully, Gartner Research Director Bill Rust says every school must do the following:
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Schools that are embracing BYOD are working to incorporate technology into their curriculum
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Professional development also is helping educators learn new teaching techniques that are technology-centric
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offers five blended high school courses in English and health education
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Early BYOD Adopters Share Lessons Learned
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Professional development is important. Hanover's educational technology staff holds a training session every Tuesday, Fry says. The district also built a wiki to educate teachers about using technology in the classroom.
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Provide a buyer's guide. 
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Apps in Education: My E-Textbook Manifesto: - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 23 Jan 12 - No Cached

As educators what do we want from e-textbooks?
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need to be visually stunning
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e-textbooks need to have an inherent interactivity that engages
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should be a fascinating read
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e-Textbooks that are constantly update
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able to change the variables so that the effects are changed accordingly
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non-linear interactive media that allows the students the freedom to negotiate their own learning activities
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visuals that can be dismantled in order to focus on one aspect
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Can we monitor a students progress?
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E-Textbooks are a tool, a tool that in the hands of good teachers and motivated students would produce some absolutely special results. E-Textbooks are only part of the solution. What we need is a situation where student buy-in to their own education. This is where you really see student engagement. 
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What I really think is this! I think this is the most exciting time in history to be involved in education
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Digitally Speaking / FrontPage - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 14 Oct 09 - Cached

Our kids’ futures will require them to be: Networked–They’ll need an “outboard brain.” More collaborative–They are going to need to work closely with people to co-create information. More globally aware–Those collaborators may be anywhere in the world. Less dependent on paper–Right now, we are still paper training our kids. More active–In just about every sense of the word. Physically. Socially. Politically. Fluent in creating and consuming hypertext–Basic reading and writing skills will not suffice. More connected–To their communities, to their environments, to the world. Editors of information–Something we should have been teaching them all along but is even more important now.
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Easily the greatest struggle that educators face in today's day and age is properly preparing students for a future that is poorly defined yet rapidly changing. 
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8 must-reads detail how to verify information in real-time, from social media, users | ... - 1 views

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IBM released their 5 in 5 Technology Report for the next 5 Years | It's a Gadget - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 22 Dec 11 - No Cached

predictions were delivered in IBM’s annual “5 in 5” report which describes five different technologies that, according to IBM, have the potential to change our lives
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First off is mind reading technology
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Next up is the extinction of passwords
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Ever wanted a home that is powered by kinetic energy?
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Fourth on IBM’s list was mobile devices. Yes they are already here, but
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Last on the list comes the annihilation of junk mail.
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Using Google Apps to Support Reading and Writing in the Classroom (Recorded Webinar) | ... - 0 views

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- Stop trying to figure out if screentime is good for students - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 04 Nov 13 - No Cached

study what happens when students use these devices to connect, develop, grow and create. We also need to understand that success in the 21st century can not be measured by the bubble tests that were created to measure an industrial model of schooling.
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 Do we want students to read, write, calculate, receive instant feedback, make global connections, develop a learning network, publish to the world? Of course we do.
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How to Create Nonreaders - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 02 Oct 10 - Cached

What a teacher can do – all a teacher can do – is work with students to create a classroom culture, a climate, a curriculum that will nourish and sustain the fundamental inclinations that everyone starts out with:  to make sense of oneself and the world, to become increasingly competent at tasks that are regarded as consequential, to connect with (and express oneself to) other people.
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8 Tips To Remember What You Read| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 13 Nov 12 - No Cached

Integrating Media and Technology into Classroom Practices - The Reading & Writing Project - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 06 Mar 14 - No Cached

The real promise of the new technology is that it can bridge the distance between teacher and students, between students and texts, in truly innovative ways. But it takes time and understanding of the new applications and devices to make good on this promise.
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