Group items tagged Communications - SJR Teacher/Learners

shared by Phil Taylor on 19 Aug 11 - No Cached

digitally literate students should have a far wider range of tools at their fingertips to aid  productivity, communication, and collaboration (for an extensive list, see the C4PLT website).
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shared by Phil Taylor on 26 Aug 11 - No Cached

iGeners are almost universally plugged in. Ear buds hang from backpacks, and cell phones are stuffed into every pocket. Instant communication has replaced listening to messages, streaming video has replaced waiting for television shows to start, Xboxes have replaced Ataris, digital images have replaced negatives, and high-speed connections have replaced dial-up modems.
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iGeners aren’t always the best students, however! Working quickly instead of carefully, they infosnack their way through class, flitting from instant experience to instant experience. Reading deeply, considering multiple perspectives and interacting with others in meaningful ways is pushed aside in a race for immediate gratification.
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shared by Phil Taylor on 06 Sep 11 - No Cached

shared by Phil Taylor on 16 Sep 11 - No Cached

 I am all for PBL but I think that we need to not only create the opportunities for our students to do this, but for ourselves as well.  Again referencing the Wagner book, schools in Singapore are seeing the importance of learning communities that promote active learning:
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shared by Phil Taylor on 11 Sep 11 - Cached

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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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shared by Phil Taylor on 08 Apr 11 - No Cached

shared by Phil Taylor on 20 Apr 11 - No Cached

I believe the gap in know how is related to learning -- new learning, unlearning, relearning.
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I think of knowing as a more staid, steady, stable state. When I know something, it is for sure; it is so sure it is fact.
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Learning is an active state, an process of searching, digging, questioning, connecting, thinking, imagining, visualizing, trying, pitching, collecting, building, sharing, enhancing, coloring, synthesizing, communicating.  Learning is unfinished.
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