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Phil Taylor

Do iPads Have the Capacity to Change Education? - iPads in Education - 0 views

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iPad education technology eLearning change

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  • Professional development becomes far more valuable when it searches beyond the simple nuts and bolts of technical use and instead encourages teachers to disrupt the traditional flow of education - to dabble, experiment and re-imagine how that technology can be used to sculpt new educational horizons.
Phil Taylor

This is WAY Too Much Fun to be "Professional Development"… - SimpleK12 - 2 views

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Phil Taylor

21 Reasons Technology Works for Education | EdTech Magazine - 0 views

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education technology

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  • 1,000 high school students, faculty, and district IT professionals around the country to get their take on technology’s place in the classroom.
Phil Taylor

Why most teachers don't know what they don't know. « My Island View - 1 views

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  • Technology is the driving force behind most of the education innovation. It is impacting not only what we can do as educators, but it is also changing how we approach learning. These innovations may have not all reached the education journals yet, but they have been presented and are being discussed digitally and at great length in social media.
  • Information from technology may be easily accessed, but it is not yet a passive exercise. It requires effort and an ability to learn and adapt. These are skills that all educators have, but many may not always be willing to use. The status quo has not required educators to use these skills in a long time. Using these skills requires effort and leaving a long-standing zone of comfort in order to learn and use new methods of information retrieval.
  • They need to be the life-long learners that they want their students to be.
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  • In order for teachers to better guide themselves in their learning, they need to know what it is that they need to know. They need relevant questions about relevant changes. Being connected to other educators, who are practicing these changes already, is a great first step.
Phil Taylor

News and Thoughts: The Changing Role of Teachers - 3 views

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  • One-to-one professional development often begins with examining teaching methodology and exploring how this can be changed in order to begin to include the use of the technology to create a profounder, more engaging, more creative learning experience. This usually includes some focus on new skills around creative and critical thinking, connecting ideas, and communicating and collaborating with a variety of people, ranging from local students to experts from around the world.
  • It can be difficult to shift your role when all around you people are expecting and even evaluating you based on the old definition of what a teacher should be and do
  • change needs to be managed not just within the school walls, but within the school community and maybe the community at large.
Phil Taylor

100 Free Online Tools to Learn a New Skill in Almost Anything - Waking Times : Waking T... - 1 views

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  • While there is much to be learnt from taking a course or learning from a professional instructor, there are many online tools that can help you learn just about anything you’d like and for free.
Phil Taylor

Bad for the Brain: Goodbye to Unsustainable Education Models | Edutopia - 3 views

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  • starting in 1994, calculators were not only permitted, but were essentially required. The driving factors came from the level of mathematics taught and tested and the availability of graphing calculator technology. This change gave students the appropriate tool for accuracy and efficiency -- it was also the one used by most professionals who used mathematics beyond basic arithmetic
  • before prescribing medication, physicians often search the Medscape or Epocrates websites for the most current facts that might have significant impact on a patient's reactions to the medication. New information can be critical,
  • The problem is not primarily teachers or students who, in desperation, resort to cheating, but rather the conditions that drive them to such extremes
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  • Desirable employees are those capable of making use of new information and technology to solve new problems and innovate ahead of the competition.
  • This is only the beginning of this conversation. What do you consider important implications of and perhaps preparation for Internet access for learning and testing?
Phil Taylor

How To Use Technology To Increase Student Achievement Is Not a Mystery! -- THE Journal - 0 views

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  • redesigning the curriculum to take advantage of the affordances of the 1-to-1 mobile devices that were being used. The technology was not bolted onto an existing curriculum
  • Most importantly, they developed into a community of practice — a professional group of educators who work with each other, who support each other
  • Adding technology to direct-instruction, paper-and-pencil-based pedagogy, will have little impact
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  • the school had a vision
  • emphasized inquiry pedagogy along with the development of key 21st century skills such as self-directed learning and collaborative learning
  • One-to-one is the only way to go
Phil Taylor

Using Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom - 0 views

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Technology Childhood classroom education Early braindev

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  • Modern technologies are very powerful because they rely on one of the most powerful genetic biases we do have — the preference for visually presented information
  • Phil Taylor on 09 Mar 14
     
    "Modern technologies are very powerful because they rely on one of the most powerful genetic biases we do have - the preference for visually presented information"
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