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

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teaching computers education

shared by Phil Taylor on 08 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • 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

Many US Schools Adding iPads, Trimming Textbooks| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

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iPads schools textbooks

shared by Phil Taylor on 20 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • And even with the most modern device in hand, students still need the basics of a solid curriculum and skilled teachers. “There’s a saying that the music is not in the piano and, in the same way, the learning is not in the device,’’ said Mark Warschauer, an education and informatics professor at the University of California-Irvine whose specialties include research on the intersection of technology and education.
  • “I think one of the real key questions that will be answered over the next several years is what sort of things work best in print for students and what sort of things work best digitally,’’ Diskey said. “I think we’re on the cusp of a whole new area of research and comprehension about what digital learning means.’’
Phil Taylor

Personalized Learning: What It Really Is and Why It Really Matters - - 1 views

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personalized learning matters

shared by Phil Taylor on 27 Feb 18 - No Cached
  • Moving content broadcast out of the classroom
  • urning homework time into contact time
  • Providing tutoring:
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  • pedagogical framework called Self-Regulated Learning
  • widespread commercialization of the adaptive learning techniques
  • Textbook publishers have found that their traditional business model is collapsing as more students find ways to avoid buying new textbooks
  • personalized learning is a family of educational practices that support good course designs, implementing those practices well is not as simple as buying a product
  • Yes, personalized learning is a lousy term, but it is attached to legitimate educational practices that have the potential to improve the lives of many students
Phil Taylor

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

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future canadian education

shared by Phil Taylor on 09 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • 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.
Phil Taylor

iTeach and iLearn: It's not 1989 - 0 views

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edtech teaching change

shared by Phil Taylor on 23 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Just as the printed page produced a shift in education in the 16th and 17th centuries, computer technology and electronic media have shifted (and are continuing to shift) education in the 20th and 21st centuries.
  • I'm certainly not arguing that every lesson you teach should be computerized or technology enhanced, just as every lesson you teach doesn't need to include a textbook
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