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Phil Taylor

How to Break Free of Our 19th-Century Factory-Model Education System - Joel Rose - Busi... - 0 views

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  • Given the enormous impact that technology has had on nearly every other aspect of our society, how can that be?
  • Today our collective vision for education is broader, our nation is more complex and diverse, and our technical capabilities are more powerful. But we continue to assume the factory-model classroom and its rigid bell schedules, credit requirements, age-based grade levels, and physical specifications when we talk about school reform.
  • our focus should primarily be to design new classroom models that take advantage of what these tools can do.
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  • understanding what it is we want students to be able to do, the measures of success, the resources we have to work with, and our own sense of possibility.
  • Different schools may take different approaches to combining these components
  • The Information Age has facilitated a reinvention of nearly every industry except for education. It's time to unhinge ourselves from many of the assumptions that undergird how we deliver instruction and begin to design new models that are better able to leverage talent, time, and technology to best meet the unique needs of each student
Phil Taylor

This Time It's Personal -- THE Journal - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 30 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • for the most part, schools have incorporated these 21st century instructional techniques and tools as add-ons to the teacher-centric 19th century classroom structure, in which the majority of the curriculum is pulled from a textbook, and, despite best intentions, most students learn the same thing in the same way at the same time.
  • what exactly is personalized learning? And why is technology so central to its outcomes?
  • personalized learning as an instructional approach that encompasses both differentiation and individualization, but is also flexible in content or theme to match the specific interests and prior experiences of learners
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

Why build a Personal Learning Network? - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 20 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • How ever you approach your PLN you must keep the key principle in mind; it needs to be Personal.
Phil Taylor

I AM A LIAR!: Recap - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 23 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Its time to bring this blog to an end and to do this I will give my thoughts and observations on this last semester as a liar. I honestly loved this approach to teaching for a number of reasons. Here is what I loved about being a liar:
Phil Taylor

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

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shared by Phil Taylor on 29 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • 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

Zen and the Art of Twitter: 4 Tips for Productive Tweeting - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 14 Jan 10 - Cached
  • When we let the horse, or social media, direct us, we get overwhelmed and unfocused, and our time is not spent well.Twitter and Facebook are incredible tools, but making the most of our time on them requires paying attention to the mental approach we take. When we engage them with a beginner’s mind, a desire to give, a focus on adding useful content, and a positive state of mind, we will likely have more days guiding the horse than the opposite.
Phil Taylor

Will the iPad revolutionize education? - ISTE Community - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 14 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • The iPad however, provides an alternative method by providing a lower cost of entry, while allowing for student-centered instruction where students are able to both create content and access information anywhere, anytime.  The key for revolutionizing education is having educators who embrace this technology to change how they teach to create a learning environment where students, not teachers, are the focus of the instruction.   
  • “Yeah it does all that and it’s a phone!”  Amidst a cacophony of reverent Oooh’s and Ahh’s, I unknowingly witnessed the birth of the Smart-Phone and the death knell of the PDA.  I bring this up because I recently was approached by someone who told me that our school should get rid of all PC’s and give everyone iPads.
  • but the tablet format could lead to changes in education.
Phil Taylor

iPads and iPedagogy « Another dot in the blogosphere? - 0 views

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  • Again this is an excellent opportunity for teachers to rethink their approach to teaching. How might they promote more student-centred and self-directed learning via personal consumption instead? How might they put the iPads in the hands of learners to promote various forms of collaboration instead?
  • The initial energy needs to be sustained with pedagogies in the marathon that is teaching and learning.
Phil Taylor

Educational Leadership:Teaching Screenagers:Character Education for the Digital Age - 0 views

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  • Our challenge is to find ways to teach our children how to navigate the rapidly moving digital present, consciously and reflectively.
  • the "one life" perspective says the opposite, that it is precisely our job as educators to help students live one, integrated life, by inviting them to not only use their technology at school, but also talk about it within the greater context of community and society.
  • The tie that binds us to our ancestors is that both ancient and digital-age humans crave community
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  • A third approach awaits us: establishing proactive, aggressive character education programs tuned to digital youth.
  • Issues of Digital Citizenship
Phil Taylor

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

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shared by Phil Taylor on 10 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • 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

Family meetings, 'tech breaks,' encouraged to keep tabs on kids' online activity - Winn... - 1 views

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  • Parents who try to secretly monitor their kids' online activities are wasting their time and should use an approach that builds trust and allows for conversation, says a psychologist who has studied texting, social networking and other online pursuits.
  • "Your job then is to learn and to assess, and to now use your parent radar to see if there might be any problems."
Phil Taylor

Marc My Words: Back to School - Tablets in the Classroom by Marc J. Rosenberg : Learnin... - 1 views

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  • Re-writing curriculum, engaging in faculty development, and implementing new instructional design models are essential if we are to realize the promise of technology. Funding faculty workshops, developing master teachers who can teach others, and sharing content development costs regionally are just some of the ways we can approach this challenge.
Phil Taylor

Scratch Curriculum Guide Draft | ScratchEd - 2 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 24 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • This Scratch curriculum guide provides an introduction to creative computing with Scratch, using a design-based learning approach.
Phil Taylor

Improving Schools Through Design Thinking | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 15 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Design thinking is a human-centered approach to problem solving that begins with developing empathy for those facing a particular challenge. It serves as a framework that helps to define problems, empathize with others, develop prototypes of possible solutions, and hone those prototypes through multiple iterations until they have generated a viable solution to the challenge at hand. Design thinking encourages a
Phil Taylor

Navigating a "No Zero" Policy - the becoming radical - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 29 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Schools, teachers, parents, and students must set aside grading as a system of rewards and punishments, and begin to see grading as a subset of assessment, which must be used as a system of feedback and student revision to support student learning.
  • My alternative to the zero is that students must complete fully all work assigned or no credit can be assigned for the course; this approach addresses the problems with both assigning zeroes and simply passing students who do not complete the work.
Phil Taylor

Laptops And Phones In The Classroom: Yea, Nay Or A Third Way? : NPR Ed : NPR - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 26 Jan 18 - No Cached
  • Stommel, who's been engaged in many debates over laptop bans on Twitter, calls the issue "weirdly divisive" but also, in the end, "a red herring." Instead of an "authoritarian approach," he suggests a conversation.
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