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Phil Taylor

DigiGogy: Digital Bloom's Visual - 0 views

  • Where pedagogy is about methods to instruct, Digigogy is about those methods, but with a technological frame. From hardware to software, from tech ed theory to application, Digigogy is about reframing our methods in the future of instruction. The new way of learning is a complete tear down and rebuild of traditional teaching, where learning is a joint effort and roles are reborn. Beyond the desks...beyond the walls...beyond the school. The new classroom is orbital, and scenic, and here.
Phil Taylor

Education Week's Digital Directions: Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Lear... - 0 views

  • Some of the latest technology tools for the classroom, however, promise to ease the challenges of differentiating instruction more creatively and effectively, ed-tech experts say, even in an era of high-stakes federal and state testing mandates. New applications for defining and targeting students’ academic strengths and weaknesses can help teachers create a personal playlist of lessons, tools, and activities that deliver content in ways that align with individual needs and optimal learning methods.
  • Preliminary data showed significant student progress toward mastering the skills targeted in the program, officials say
  • “By leveraging technology to play a role in the delivery of instruction,” he says, “we can help to complement what live teachers do.”
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  • Making the Transition Experts caution, however, that instituting such large-scale change is not simply a matter of putting new tools in place. As in San Diego, most teachers will need extensive professional development to use digital tools and learn the best ways of teaching with technology.
  • ‘Feedback to Children’
  • “We have this generation of students that yearns to customize everything they come into contact with,”
Phil Taylor

IWB's Help or Hurt? « My Island View - 1 views

  • I believe that IWB’s are an asset to the classroom. They can seamlessly use web 2.0 applications to engage students in creative and constructive lessons for learning. The important element in this however is the training of the teacher using the IWB. Without training the user, the IWB becomes an expensive video projector or an expensive PowerPoint presentation tool or a very expensive hat rack.
  • with a pilot who had a 747 placed in his driveway as an incentive to fly a bigger plane without training?
  • Kids understand IWB’s and want to use them. It’s the adults who need to be brought along. Creativity should be the focus and remembering should be the support.
Phil Taylor

education.timerime.com - 0 views

  • TimeRime is a web application, which allows people to view, create, share and compare interactive timelines.
Phil Taylor

English Raven: Twitter for teachers - why you should start tweeting! - 1 views

  • Twitter's magic - quite aside from the obvious networking potential - is in its simplicity and relatively no-frills design and application.
  • ten things I love about Twitter as a teacher and ELT materials designer:
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