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Phil Taylor

Learning with an iPad - Winnipeg Free Press - 0 views

  • The iPad "certainly doesn't do everything a desktop or laptop computer does," Weston acknowledged. "It's not about the device, it's about the learning."
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    "The iPad "certainly doesn't do everything a desktop or laptop computer does," Weston acknowledged. "It's not about the device, it's about the learning.""
Phil Taylor

iPad Pilot Project - 3 views

  • "Technology has been completely transparent to the Net Gen. 'It doesn't exist. It's like the air,' said Coco Conn, cofounder of the Web-based Cityspace project. MIT's Dr. Idit Harel, a professor of epistemology, agreed: 'For the kids, it's like using a pencil. Parents don't talk about pencils, they talk about writing. And kids don't talk about technology—they talk about playing, building a Web site, writing a friend, about the rain forest
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Phil Taylor

Not Your Father's School: A Letter to New Teachers - 1 views

  • teaching isn’t about content and it’s not about technology. It’s about kids, about building relationships with them, about believing in them, about finding out what they can do and then providing opportunities for them to do it.
  • Know your students, have faith in their capacities, and magical things will happen.
  • you’re a professional now
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  • The best teachers do the same, and you should try to emulate that—if for no other reason than to stay on the right side of all the disruptive change that’s coming along.
  • the strongest teachers are very good at gently, and sometimes not so gently, reminding parents that we’re all on the same side here
  • go to your school’s website and re-read the mission statement. If there are sections on values, and history, read those, too.
Phil Taylor

The Innovative Educator: Scoop.it! Lets You Create Beautiful Subject-Specific Reading C... - 3 views

  • Students working in cooperative groups can create a Scoop.it! about a topic of interest or study. Teachers can create Scoop.Its! about topics they are studying for professional development. Teachers can create Scoop.Its! about topics their students will be studying. Students and Teachers can look at existing Scoop.Its! to connect with others who share their interests and learn about interesting things. Here are some interesting Scoop.its! that I found about learning innovatively:
Phil Taylor

Education Rethink: Ten Myths About Technology - 2 views

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    "Ten Myths About Technology"
Phil Taylor

The Truth About Snapchat: A Digital Literacy Lesson for Us All - The Digital Shift - 0 views

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    "The Truth About Snapchat: A Digital Literacy Lesson for Us All"
Phil Taylor

SchoolCIO Blogs - DAILY INSIGHT: Technology integration is dead! - 1 views

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    " stop talking about "technology integration" and start talking about "technology-embedded lessons.""
Phil Taylor

Top 20 Hidden iOS 7 Features That You Likely Don't Know About | Redmond Pie - 0 views

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    "Top 20 Hidden iOS 7 Features That You Likely Don't Know About"
Phil Taylor

Digital literacy is about asking the right questions - ICT and Computing in E... - 0 views

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    "Digital Literacy Is About Asking The Right Questions"
Phil Taylor

3 Ideas To Help You Feel Better About Your Kids and Screens - 0 views

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    3 Ideas To Help You Feel Better About Your Kids and Screens http://t.co/sCtGMcXUpR
Phil Taylor

Attention versus distraction? What that big NY Times story leaves out » Niema... - 0 views

  • robbing kids of their ability to concentrate
  • The question, though, is: distraction from what? And also: What’s inherently wrong with distraction?
  • Formal education, as we’ve framed it, is not only about finding ways to learn more about the things we love, but also, equally, about squelching our aversion to the things we don’t — all in the ecumenical spirit of generalized knowledge.
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  • He just doesn’t care about algebra.
  • The web inculcates a follow your bliss approach to learning that seeps
  • It’s a bottom-up shift that our top-down education systems, and journalism along with them, are grappling with.
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      The real issue? What is the correct balance?
  • It’s not ruining what was; it’s simply moving on. We don’t write like the Romantics anymore, not because we can’t enjoy or appreciate what they write, but because that is simply not the world we live in.
Phil Taylor

The death of the digital native: four provocations from Digifest speaker, Donna Lanclos... - 0 views

  • A very different paradigm is 'visitor and resident'1. Instead of talking about these essentialised categories of native and immigrant, we should be talking about modes of behaviour
  • A very different paradigm is 'visitor and resident'1. Instead of talking about these essentialised categories of native and immigrant, we should be talking about modes of behaviour
Phil Taylor

Ed Tech Coaching: Let's Stop Talking about Teaching with Technology, and Start Talking ... - 0 views

  • The difference is that she was leveraging technology to be more efficient (by speeding up the feedback loop and putting students in a situation where they had 24-7 access to their work) and more effective (by individualizing responses to their needs and giving them access to view and reflect on their writing process).
Phil Taylor

The Google Glass feature no one is talking about - Creative Good - 0 views

  • Google Glass experience is not the user experience – it’s the experience of everyone else. The experience of being a citizen, in public, is about to change.
Phil Taylor

The Unfair World and the Low Bar | The Principal of Change - 1 views

  • more than just “existing” and “being good” online, it is about making a difference
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    "more than just "existing" and "being good" online, it is about making a difference"
Phil Taylor

10 Reasons to Educate Elementary Students about Social Media | Big Ideas in Education - 0 views

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    "10 Reasons to Educate Elementary Students about Social Media"
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