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Phil Taylor

How Google Impacts The Way Students Think - 0 views

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    Why we need to teach our students to be 2016 literate
Phil Taylor

5 Reasons Teenagers Act the Way They Do - Mental Floss - 0 views

  • Risk Taking
  • This means teens literally cannot come to a decision as fast as an adult.
  • scans showed that the reward center of the teen brain became much more active in the company of their peers
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  • Giving in to Peer Pressure
  • Lack of Concentration
  • While teens may look more like adults than kids, to a neuroscientist their brains resemble a child’s.
  • Overly Emotional
  • That means that if you are expressing an emotion—say, disappointment—a teen’s brain has a 50% chance of misinterpreting it as a different emotion, like anger.
  • Getting Dumber
Phil Taylor

The Problem (And Solution) To Your Digital Stress | Edudemic - 2 views

  • So what’s a person to do? Take a break, of course! But first, let’s examine the causes of all this digital stress. Then we can dive into some of the side effects of it all. Finally, we’ll look at how to fix all the digital stress and turn you into a well-oiled stress-free digital citizen
Phil Taylor

The dumbest generation? No, Twitter is making kids smarter - The Globe and Mail - 1 views

  • The only way to tell whether kids today are really less coherent or literate than their great-grandparents is to compare student writing across the past century
  • Over the past century, the freshman composition papers had exploded in length and intellectual complexity.
  • Prof. Lunsford’s research has found, 40 per cent of all writing is done outside the classroom – it’s “life writing,” stuff students do socially, or just for fun.
Phil Taylor

Will Richardson: My Kids are Illiterate. Most Likely, Yours Are Too - 1 views

  • they're not "designing and sharing information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes." Nor are they "building relationships with others to solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally." And as far as "managing, analyzing and synthesizing multiple streams of information?"
  • National Council of Teachers of English feels a "literate person" should be able to do right now
  • If we don't talk about how learning is changing first, the schools we create will continue to be places of "tinkering on the edges" instead of truly changed spaces.
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  • the reality for my kids and yours is that they are going to be immersed in these spaces, potentially connecting and learning with two billion strangers, required to make sense of huge flows of information and creating and sharing their knowledge with the world. That is their reality; it wasn't ours.
Phil Taylor

An Idea Worth Spreading: The Future is Networks « emergent by design - 0 views

  • The future of Social Business is networks,’ ‘The future of education is networks,’ ‘The future of society is networks.’
  • but it feels like we’re nearing a point where something must change if we’re to move forward.
  • It’s literally NEVER been fully globally connected, until now.
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  • Every tool man has made, from the flint arrows to the wheel to civilization to systems of governance have ALL been in response to complexity.
  • I never really understood what it meant when people said, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”
Phil Taylor

Social Networking - Let's Start Early « The Spicy Learning Blog - 0 views

  • The less we work with students on being critically literate online, and the more we avoid social media and networking as an authentic part of the classroom experience, the more danger our students will be in.
Phil Taylor

10 years after laptops come to Maine schools, educators say technology levels playing f... - 0 views

  • Laptops make learning and schoolwork more interesting, students and teachers said.
  • Writing test scores have improved
  • Freeport math skills have jumped
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  • Laptop critics, including some parents, complain that they can be a distraction from learning: Students spend too much time on social-networking sites, including Facebook and Skype. Overall, educators say the laptops have done what King promised: level the playing field of access to technology and help students become technology-literate.
  • It was difficult, but after a couple of months he learned to balance work and play, he said.
Phil Taylor

Digital Leisure and Digital Literacy | The Learning Zone - 0 views

  • 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).
Phil Taylor

What 21st century teaching, learning really means - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 2 views

  • we live in a connected world, with the Internet and powerful digital technologies literally at our fingertips, so it would be foolish not to integrate those things into the learning experience.
  • we’ve done is we’ve trained the passion out of our students from the 2nd grade up
  • Typically what I do is I try to construct my course or unit under some big umbrella that I already know is going to be very interesting to kids where they are right now in their development.
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