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Dean Stokes - YouTube - 0 views

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    GAfE admin needs to sign up for early adopter program. Took us about 2 weeks to be white listed. My first site: https://sites.google.com/learners.sjr.mb.ca/start
Phil Taylor

New Google Sites - Short Overview - YouTube - 1 views

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    GAfE admin needs to sign up for early adopter program. Took us about 2 weeks to be white listed. My first site: https://sites.google.com/learners.sjr.mb.ca/start
Phil Taylor

SchoolCIO Blogs - DAILY INSIGHT: Six laws of tech adoption (part 4 of 7) - 1 views

  • Law of Beliefs refers to the concepts of a teacher-centered classroom versus a student-centered classroom, and which is the best learning environment for students
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6 Top Tech Trends on the Horizon for Higher Education - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of... - 0 views

  • notes that mobile devices have been listed before, but it says that resistance by many schools continues to slow the full integration of mobile devices into higher education.
  • Learning analytics
  • Challenges to adoption include incorporating information coming from a variety of sources and in different formats and concerns about privacy and profiling.
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  • Augmented reality, the layering of virtual information over actual locations, such as an interactive, mobile-based museum map, is another up-and-coming trend. It is two to three years away from adoption in education.
Phil Taylor

Google's 80/20 Principle Adopted at New Jersey School - 1 views

  • This simple policy change enables what's been called the 80/20 principle, a theory practiced by Google that employees who spend 20 percent of their time on company-related projects that interest them will work better.
Phil Taylor

One-to-One or BYOD? Districts Explain Thinking Behind Student Computing Initiatives | E... - 0 views

  • the district shelved the idea when it became apparent that students preferred using their personal mobile devices and that the cost of buying and ­refreshing ­notebooks every three to four years would be ­prohibitive
  • surveyed the 155 eighth-graders ­participating in the pilot, they learned something ­interesting: Although students loved the idea of having their own computer to do their homework, 52 percent of them were using their personal computers rather than those issued by the school
  • IT department beefed up the wireless network in its two middle schools and the high school and standardized on a set of cloud-based applications
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  • Google Apps' ­productivity and collaboration tools, and connect to the Moodle course management system, where they can access ­reading materials and other course ­content and participate in discussion forums and live chats.
  • To implement BYOD successfully, Gartner Research Director Bill Rust says every school must do the following:
  • Schools that are embracing BYOD are working to ­incorporate technology into their curriculum
  • Professional development also is helping educators learn new teaching techniques that are technology-centric
  • offers five blended high school courses in English and health education
  • Early BYOD Adopters Share Lessons Learned
  • Professional development is important. Hanover's educational technology staff holds a training session every Tuesday, Fry says. The district also built a wiki to educate teachers about using technology in the classroom.
  • Provide a buyer's guide. 
Phil Taylor

A Statewide Digital Professional Learning Community: It's Time to Think Big | Getting S... - 1 views

  • blend the PLC processes and platform into processes the teachers are already following and maybe even save them some time while doing so.
  • if teachers can see the time savings in what they are already doing, they will adopt a digital professional learning community process.
Phil Taylor

Learning with 'e's: Digital learning futures - 0 views

  • number of possible scenarios that might result when wholesale adoption of digital technologies occurs in education and training. I touched on personal learning networks, mobile technologies, games and gamification, the use of social media in learning, the role of user generated content, the phenomenon of ubiquitous connection, and technological convergence.
Phil Taylor

Strategies for Embedding Project-Based Learning into STEM Education by Thom Markham (Bu... - 0 views

  • Without adopting inquiry-based, student-centered, skill-driven approaches to teaching and learning -- all nested in a system that values innovation -- STEM education will become just another term for additional math and engineering courses.
  • heart of any STEM program should be courses in which students create products, not just take tests
  • Allow for creativity
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  • Make teamwork central
  • Start with questions
Phil Taylor

New Horizon Report - 2011 K-12 Edition Out Now!| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

  • Key Trends in 2011:
  • Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less Cloud computing Mobiles
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