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Didn't Read Those Terms of Service? Here's What You Agreed to Give Up - NYTimes.com - N... - 0 views

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service terms

shared by Phil Taylor on 29 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • someone nearly eight hours to read the agreements on the 30 sites in the study, at an average adult pace of 250 words per minute
Phil Taylor

Your Brain on Computers - Attached to Technology and Paying a Price - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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brain technology

shared by Phil Taylor on 07 Jun 10 - Cached
  • These play to a primitive impulse to respond to immediate opportunities and threats. The stimulation provokes excitement — a dopamine squirt — that researchers say can be addictive. In its absence, people feel bored.
  • Phil Taylor on 07 Jun 10
     
    Need to learn how to manage our time with all the distractions.
Phil Taylor

Part I: Answers to Questions About Video Games and Learning - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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questions answers nytimes.com games learning

shared by Phil Taylor on 23 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • When students use facts and information to solve problems they both gain the facts and information and learn to solve problems. Games are one good way to do this, because a video game is problem solving with lots of practice, feedback, and assessment (e.g., boss battles). But this style of learning can and should be done in many different ways.
Phil Taylor

The University of Wherever - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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NYTimes.com university technology change

shared by Phil Taylor on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Two recent events at Stanford University suggest that the day is growing nearer when quality higher education confronts the technological disruptions that have already upended the music and book industries, humbled enterprises from Kodak to the Postal Service (not to mention the newspaper business), and helped destabilize despots across the Middle East.
Phil Taylor

Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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NYTimes.com technology schools

shared by Phil Taylor on 05 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • For instance, in the Maine math study, it is hard to separate the effect of the laptops from the effect of the teacher training.
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      You need both the tools and training.
  • one-to-one laptop programs may simply amplify what’s already occurring — for better or worse,
  • As Mr. Share says in the signature file at the bottom of every e-mail he sends: “It’s not the stuff that counts — it’s what you do with it that matters.”
Phil Taylor

Quality Homework - A Smart Idea - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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homework NYTimes.com

shared by Phil Taylor on 13 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Do American students have too much homework or too little? Neither, I’d say. We ought to be asking a different question altogether. What should matter to parents and educators is this: How effectively do children’s after-school assignments advance learning?
Phil Taylor

Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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classroom mind nytimes

shared by Phil Taylor on 17 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • The human element, a magical connection, is at the heart of successful education, and you can’t bottle it.
  • Phil Taylor on 17 Nov 12
     
    "Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind?"
Phil Taylor

Guest Post | Three Starting Points for Thinking Differently About Learning - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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learning change

shared by Phil Taylor on 26 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • The last 15 Web-frenzied years have upended the basic premise of school. The idea that content and knowledge and teachers are scarce and have to be collected into a local classroom during a certain time period in order to educate our children is no longer true.
Phil Taylor

After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Britannica ebooks Print

shared by Phil Taylor on 14 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Phil Taylor on 14 Mar 12
     
    Last print version of Britannica
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