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Phil Taylor

Global Digital Citizen-The Role of the Teacher| The Committed Sardine - 1 views

  • With the huge potential that Information and communication technology has to offer for teaching and learning also comes a matching potential for distraction, illicit and inappropriate activity, and poor judgement.
  • The teacher holds a cornerstone role in the development of understanding, the appreciation of culture and diversity, and the formation of the moral and ethical basis that, like the cornerstone of a building, provides a strong and stable foundation for life in both the real and virtual world they co-inhabit.
  • The most salient lessons are not learned by avoidance but by facing you action, its impact, and the consequences.
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  • All teachers are teachers of citizenship.
  • The teacher is no longer just the master of their subject. They are much, much more. Their classroom is no longer defined by four walls and a blackboard, but stretches far beyond the physical boundaries of their school. We are global teachers, ethicists, and moralists. We are masters of our subject and students of the world.
Phil Taylor

10 Rules for a Successful One-to-One Classroom - WeAreTeachers - 0 views

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Phil Taylor

Technology to Engage, not Distract | Connected Principals - 0 views

  • What are we doing as educators to meaningfully engage our students, to give them the autonomy, purpose, and opportunity for mastery which they crave and to which they respond with focus, energy, enthusiasm, and diligence?
  • Do we think that before technology, most students avoided distraction?
  • Yes, of course, students can and do get distracted when their computers and smartphones are open on their desk or lap, and teachers need to respond thoughtfully to this problem.    It is fine for teachers to ask students to put them away in certain times.    William Stites has a terrific post about how schools can confront and manage the technological distraction issues
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  • The world is changing, faster and faster, and we do need to be thoughtful and intentional about how technology is used by our students, and we do need to strive for healthy balance.
Phil Taylor

Social Networking - Let's Start Early « The Spicy Learning Blog - 0 views

  • The less we work with students on being critically literate online, and the more we avoid social media and networking as an authentic part of the classroom experience, the more danger our students will be in.
Phil Taylor

Stagnant Future, Stagnant Tests: Pointed Response to NY Times "Grading the Digital Scho... - 1 views

  • they are understanding a complex text and making sense of it within the context of their own lives.   No parent wants more, no teacher does, than for kids to be able to not just "read" Shakespeare but to understand why his work still speaks urgently to the present, why it is worth taking the time to read all that odd English from another time
  • We are not responsible as educators unless we are teaching not just with technology but through it, about it, because of it.   We need to make kids understand its power, its potential, its dangers, its use.  That isn't just an investment worth making but one that it would be irresponsible to avoid.
Phil Taylor

How Should Learning Be Assessed? | MindShift - 0 views

  • By contrast, feedback that avoids needless comparisons among students can be very useful, and doesn’t require much time or money.
Phil Taylor

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

  • 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
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Experts on the Future of Work, Jobs Training and Skills | Pew Research Center - 0 views

  • Many of them say that current K-12 or K-16 education programs are incapable of making adjustments within the next decade to serve the shifting needs of future jobs markets.
  • “The most important skill is a meta-skill: the ability to adapt to changes. This ability to adapt is what distinguished Homo sapiens from other species through natural selection.
  • The nature of this change may require the world to shift to a ‘Post Economic Growth’ model to avoid societal dislocation and disruption.”
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  • “The degree and perhaps the prestige of the institution gets you the first interview, but it is your ability to do good work that keeps the job and move[s] you to the next level.
  • Most actual assessment (not to be confused with multiple-choice tests) in school or professional programs is based on expert recognition.
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