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Phil Taylor

Are iPads, Smartphones, and the Mobile Web Rewiring the Way We Think?| The Committed Sa... - 0 views

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  • e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says.
  • "It's indisputable that the Internet has made us smarter.... The range of things you can explore in a day is just fantastic compared to 20 years ago," says David Weinberger, senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. "There's no question that we feel the Internet has made us better researchers, better thinkers, better writers."
  • Books "are not the shape of knowledge," he says. "They're a limitation on knowledge." The idea of a single author presenting her ideas "was born of the limitations of paper publishing. It's not necessarily the only way or the best way to think and to write."
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  • Wolf makes sure she stays off-line at specific times. "For a half hour before bedtime and a half hour in the morning I do nothing digital," she says.
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    "e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says."
Phil Taylor

LifeLike Pedagogy - Imagine students choosing what to study... - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 03 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Connecting the school to the world, the students are taught via the experience of real problems and real enterprises.
Phil Taylor

SLiC 28-3 Clearing the Fog About the Cloud - 0 views

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  • You might, for example, set up a book discussion blog, a wiki for collaborative research, or a Google doc for collaborative writing.
  • By contrast some web apps are perfect for the “one-class stand”
  • Web 2.0 can optimize collaboration
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  • Web 2.0 can help students visualize difficult concepts
  • powerful ways to collect and share expertise and resources
  • Web 2.0 is made for storytelling and sharing experiences with a real audience
  • Web 2.0 offers many opportunities for differentiation
  • Web 2.0 levels the playing field and just makes things easier
Phil Taylor

ASCD Express 5.24 - ASCD Talks with an Author: Robyn Jackson - 0 views

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ascd learning messy video

shared by Phil Taylor on 08 Sep 10 - Cached
  • nterview about her book Never Work Harder Than Your Students, Jackson discusses why teachers should leave "spaces" that can be filled in by students.
Phil Taylor

The British Library Digitised Manuscripts - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 29 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • The Digitised Manuscripts web pages give access to fully digitised manuscripts held at the British Library, with their descriptions
Phil Taylor

The Answer Sheet - Must we have the digital vs. print battle? - 0 views

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  • It is ironic that in one of the world’s most progressive technological areas nobody here seems to be feeling like they have to choose.
Phil Taylor

Worlds End, Worlds Begin: Web 2.0 and/as The Apocalypse: What The Terminator Has to Tea... - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 29 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Web 2.0 and/as The Apocalypse: What The Terminator Has to Teach Us About Our Future
  • only mean to highlight the disruptive and destructive consequences that have been set in motion by the shift from a life mediated by paper to a life mediated by the screen.
  • educators occupy the position now that astronomers held during the 16th century. For astronomers, the choice between models for the universe was neither trivial nor inconsequential; it was definitive.
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  • we grew up in a world of single authored books, of learned experts in their libraries, of professors holding forth before the silent masses, those days are gone and it is our responsibility to invent an educational system appropriate to the new reality.
Phil Taylor

Worlds End, Worlds Begin: Bang a Gong, Walter Ong: After Orality and Literacy - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 26 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • But first, a caveat: there are exceptions to every generalization I am about to make.
  • irresolvable paradox that, without writing, we would not have Plato's staging of this discussion nor any record at all of Socrates' encounter with Phaedrus or of the Socratic method, nor indeed would there have been an Athens, as such, to remember.
  • Plato’s struggle with the relatively new technology of writing
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  • The move from a print-centric to a network-centric world? Is this globally significant? Does this revolution in human communication have a cultural dynamic?
  • In this universe, everything revolves around the publisher who controls access to the means of production.
  • Web 2.0, which allows all readers to become writers, is the end of publishing as we have known it since the invention of Gutenberg's printing press
  • Writers still have their dog-earred personal copies of books ready to hand, but now they also have all been issued keys to the globe's virtual Alexandria Library. 
  • the advent of Web 2.0 is the sign of that the apocalypse is at hand and that what lies ahead is a shattering of all the organizing structures of contemporary reality
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