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16 Ways the 2016 Horizon Report Indicates That Higher Ed is Undergoing a Seismic Shift ... - 0 views

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    "16 Ways the 2016 Horizon Report Indicates That Higher Ed is Undergoing a Seismic Shift"
Phil Taylor

Social Networking Policy Holds School District Staff to 'Higher Standard' - Lacey, NJ P... - 0 views

  • School district employees should "exercise care and good judgement" by adhering to the following guidelines in the policy. School staff members:
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.
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  • 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

Hey Higher Ed, Why Not Focus On Teaching? : NPR Ed : NPR - 0 views

  • You argue that the well-established, traditional, large lecture format still used widely today across higher education is ineffectual. Why?
Phil Taylor

No Facebook or Twitter in Class? Try These Teaching Work-Arounds | EdTech Magazine - 1 views

  • Perhaps more important than the content we teach are the life skills we model by embracing these ­concepts. Using social media in the classroom allows teachers to remind students of the power their words can have online. This understanding will be crucial as they head to ­college, start a career and become adults in a ­digital world.
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    Anyone can look up Benjamin Franklin on Wikipedia and create a PowerPoint presentation of the information found there. Creating a fake Facebook wall for Benjamin Franklin that delivers the same ­information, but from the perceived perspective of Benjamin Franklin himself, adds a level of higher-order thinking to the activity that students will long remember.
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The Committed Sardine - blog - 0 views

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    "This a prototype activity mapping tool designed to link higher order thinking skills to how the content and context of the topic, unit, course or courses are approached and learnt. "
Phil Taylor

News: So, Students Don't Learn -- Now What? - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

  • 36 percent of students demonstrated no significant gains in critical thinking, complex reasoning and written communication over four years of college. After only two years of college, that percentage -- 45 -- is even higher.
  • students aren't studying enough; faculty members aren't demanding enough of students; administrators aren't paying attention to student learning outcomes;
Phil Taylor

Why Google+ Could be a Game-Changer in Higher Education - Century College Marketing Pro... - 0 views

  • instructors have blasted Facebook (and rightfully so) for its poor privacy protections.
  • Google+ allows a person to place all of their contacts into Circles, allowing a user to control with great precision who among their contacts will have access to which bits of shared content.
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