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

  • What If School Was More Like 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.
  • 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
  • Twitter offers a great deal of variety in opinion
  • 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

The Honeymoon is not over: iPad is a creation tool « The Spicy Learning Blog - 0 views

  • . I would describe our iPad 2s now as shared, digital scrap/sketchbooks. In fact, my students mostly use them for creation.
Phil Taylor

@shareski's Right: My Students CAN Assess Themselves! - The Tempered Radical - 1 views

  • "There won't be ANY grade attached to these tasks," I explained.  "Instead, you are going to evaluate yourselves.  Then, you will get feedback from me on the first assignment and a peer on the second assignment."
Phil Taylor

The 21st Century Principal: How to Become a Connected Educator: Developing an Effective... - 2 views

  • It is an excellent manual for administrators too, who want to transform educational practice in their schools or districts to capitalizes on 21st century technologies.
Phil Taylor

Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work? | MindShift - 0 views

  • unless traditional teaching practices morph to adapt and fully take advantage of what mobile devices can afford, some fear the promise will go the way of all the technology collecting dust in the corner of the classroom. Worse, it might eventually lead to what everyone unequivocally dreads: the mechanization of teaching.
  • “Right now, the iPad craze is using the same content on a different device. Schools must change the pedagogy.”
Phil Taylor

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

HOW TO USE TWITTER IN THE CLASSROOM WITHOUT COMPROMISING YOUR PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP... - 1 views

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    "When considering whether social media and, in this case, Twitter, is useful in the classroom"
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