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It's Here! The NMC Horizon Report > 2015 HiEd Edition | The New Media Consortium - 0 views

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    Higher Ed Report - K-12 coming soon
Phil Taylor

Educators Must Accept Tech Methods, Higher Ed Leaders Say - 0 views

  • Less discussed is how to mix online tools with in-person college classrooms. And some technology proponents say faculty need to do this effectively on a large scale to prepare students for life beyond college - and to make sure college stays relevant to a generation that has spent most of their lives on digital devices.
  • "I don't know if we can continue to pretend that we operate in analog environments and still prepare students for the digital world."
Phil Taylor

Creating and Maintaining a Professional Presence Online: A Roundup and Reflection - Pro... - 1 views

  • Creating and Maintaining a Professional Presence Online: A Roundup and Reflection
Phil Taylor

Do Students Know Enough Smart Learning Strategies? | MindShift - 1 views

  • Teaching students good learning strategies would ensure that they know how to acquire new knowledge
  • 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
  • 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”):
Phil Taylor

TechLearning: No more paper, no more books - 2 views

  • effective infrastructure, delivery systems, and content are only half the story. The more exhilarating half of the story involves changing the classroom paradigm.
  • Try out this HOT (higher order thinking) challenge
  • f you like taking notes with a pen and paper, take a look at one of the LiveScribe smartpens.
Phil Taylor

10 BYOD Classroom Experiments (and What We've Learned From Them So Far) - Online Univer... - 0 views

  • 10 BYOD Classroom Experiments (and What We’ve Learned From Them So Far)
  • What can Holy Trinity teach us? That when it comes to BYOD, it pays not to be overly strict with how the devices can be used in the class, as greater freedom allows teachers to work with students to develop the best uses for technology for their subject matter and teaching style.
  • BYOD requires much more than just changing tech policies and can sometimes mean overhauling the curriculum and spending money training teachers, though it does help students create a more personal and memorable learning experience.
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  • At Mankato, the BYOD program relies heavily on Google Docs and other tools that aren’t platform specific and that serve information to any Internet-accessible device, which points to one of the biggest problems with BYOD: managing a variety of different tech platforms
  • Students can only use devices during times that are approved by teachers and cannot use class time to troubleshoot tech problems.
  • The school also built a virtual desktop system which can be accessed through any device students or teachers bring into school
  • stop trying to battle cell phone use at school and instead decided to integrate the phones into lesson plans for eighth-graders and high school students.
  • BYOD at KISD demonstrates that while technology can be a distraction, it can also be an amazing learning tool that can not only interest students but also help them to become higher achievers.
  • school district encourages students to take the lead, inviting them to make videos that demonstrate acceptable and unacceptable use of personal phones and computers.
Phil Taylor

Don't Confuse Technology With Teaching - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    "A set of podcasts is the 21st-century equivalent of a textbook, not the 21st-century equivalent of a teacher"
Phil Taylor

Private Rights, the Public Good and Social Media | technology4engagement - 0 views

  •  The Supreme Court “…ruled that teachers must adhere to a higher standard of conduct- both inside and outside the classroom- than people in other occupations.”
  • recommend is not treating social media as a private space
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