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collision detection: What can computers teach that textbooks and paper can't? - 0 views

  • Except halfway through the piece, Randy Yerrick — an associate dean of educational tech at the University of Buffalo — makes the take-away point: The chief reason to use high-tech tools is when you want to teach in a fashion that has “no good digital equivalent”. Or to put it another way, only use computers in situations where you want to do something that can’t be done without them.
  • 3) Dialogue. Computers also let teachers and students have dialogues that aren’t easily possible in regular face-to-face formats.
  • What can computers teach that textbooks and paper can’t?
Phil Taylor

Digitally Speaking / FrontPage - 0 views

  • Our kids’ futures will require them to be: Networked–They’ll need an “outboard brain.” More collaborative–They are going to need to work closely with people to co-create information. More globally aware–Those collaborators may be anywhere in the world. Less dependent on paper–Right now, we are still paper training our kids. More active–In just about every sense of the word. Physically. Socially. Politically. Fluent in creating and consuming hypertext–Basic reading and writing skills will not suffice. More connected–To their communities, to their environments, to the world. Editors of information–Something we should have been teaching them all along but is even more important now.
  • Easily the greatest struggle that educators face in today's day and age is properly preparing students for a future that is poorly defined yet rapidly changing. 
Phil Taylor

Why Has Technology Failed To Substantially Improve Student Achievement? -- THE Journal - 1 views

  • if K-12 wants discontinuous, substantive improvement in student achievement, then it needs to change its pedagogical practices to better exploit the affordances of the computer
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    "Business realized that simply putting an existing paper-and-pencil process on a computer would produce modest or incremental gains,"
Phil Taylor

The Future is Here: Ready or Not | Canadian Education Association (CEA) - 0 views

  • Pedagogy needs to serve the student, not the teacher or the textbook
  • Just as the music industry and the traditional paper press has had to reinvent themselves, so do schools and teachers.
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