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Phil Taylor

21st Century Competencies - 0 views

  • education is falling behind the curve,1 as it did during the rapid changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution.
  • The last major changes to cur­riculum2 were effected in the late 1800s as a response to the sudden growth in societal and human capital needs
  • Having students develop deep knowledge is as essential as ever. But today, we must also make that knowledge relevant.
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  • Tough choices must be made regarding what to pare back in order to allow for more appropriate areas of focus
  • we need to infuse “themes” — important lenses such as global literacy, environmental literacy, information literacy, digital literacy, systems thinking, and design thinking
  • Higher-order skills such as the “4 C’s” — creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration4 — are essential for deeply learning knowledge as well as for demonstrating understanding through performance.
  • Character is about how we engage in the world.
  • Meta-learning is the awareness of one’s own learning and cognitive ability. Having such an awareness is the best hedge against continuous changes.
  • Historical inertia has been a large deciding factor when it comes to curriculum design, at the policy/process level.
  • we must keep two key questions before us at all times: Is education relevant enough for this century? Are we educating students to be versatile in a world that is increasingly challenged and challenging?
  • The Opportunity for Independent Schools
Phil Taylor

Lydia Dobyns: A '21st Century' Education Is SO Last Century - 0 views

  • I like "Deeper Learning" as a way to convey both the acquisition of knowledge and the transference/application of knowledge along with developing skills employers find valuable -- collaboration, communications and critical thinking.
  • Today's educators need to be connected -- that means they need to embrace social media along with utilizing online resources -- designing ways to integrate smart phones and iPads, along with laptops.
  • ...the choices we make about how to use time in school are often the enemy of quality or value. Our patterns in leading classrooms are so ingrained that we do not even realize when we are making poor choices."
Phil Taylor

It's the End of an Era - Enter the Knowledgeable Networker - Forbes - 0 views

  • In a faster-and-faster moving world, the ability to tap your team members’ or former colleagues’ networks to bring expertise to a situation and then set it free, will allow your organization to be faster, more nimble, and more capable than ever before.
Joseph Magdalene

Sample Computer Support Specialist Resume - 0 views

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    A computer support specialist resume should ideally reflect your sound hardware and software knowledge along with your technical expertise. You could just customize the sample below and expect the best results.
Joseph Magdalene

Sample Automobile Salesperson Resume - 0 views

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    In an automobile salesperson resume you need to highlight your marketing and communication skills and a thorough knowledge of automobiles. The sample given below would serve as a useful tool to guide you to frame your own eye-catching resume.
Joseph Magdalene

Tennis Instructor Resume Example - 0 views

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    A tennis instructor teaches and coaches the sport of tennis. He/she can for for either an organization or an individual player. They impart their knowledge and skill to their trainees, improving their game.
Phil Taylor

Critical Review of Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 0 views

  • An effective personal knowledge network can provide access to new ideas, innovations, successful experiments, failed results, and, if constructed with diversity in mind, contrary opinions that can be cause for reflection, re-consideration, and personal growth.
  • Knowledge should no longer be considered a stable artifact to be passed from one person to another, but instead should be viewed as a process, always changing and growing.
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    " Siemens outlines the fundamental principles of connectivism:"
Phil Taylor

The Barriers To Using Social Media In Education (Part 1 of 2) - Edudemic - 1 views

  • 2012-13, The US department of Commerce ranked 55 industry sectors for their IT intensiveness, education ranked lowest (below coal mining). Education industry that bears the responsibility to prepare children for the world of tomorrow, itself is not ready to embrace the digital revolution with an open mind.
  • Indeed there are some real risks attached with children using social media and it can’t be taken lightly. But there are also dangers in crossing a road. Do we tell our kids not to cross the road? No, we don’t! We hold their hand and tell them how to do it.
  • So irrespective of whether or not you as an institution are ready to embrace the new digital ways of teaching, the revolution is already happening. If educators are left behind on social media, they will also fail in the simple role of being cultivators of curiosity.
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  • the role of school has shifted from being the source of knowledge to the validator & applier of knowledge.
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