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Phil Taylor

iPads can't improve learning without good teaching Pt 1 - 0 views

  • Its about Teaching and Learning, not iPads
  • there is no real shift in the learning and teaching model here from the pre-iPad model. Same work, different set of tools.
  • no thoughtful plan
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  • The iPad can just be an engaging but expensive replacement for books and handouts. Or it can completely change the way we go about note taking
Phil Taylor

Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think | Magazine - 1 views

  • It is a third gadget, the long-awaited Amazon tablet called the Kindle Fire, that represents his company’s most ambitious leap into the hearts, minds, and wallets of millions of consumers.
  • the Fire is an emblem of a post-web world, in which our devices are simply a means for us to directly connect with the goodies in someone’s data center.
  • Amazon, on the other hand, is a content-focused company—almost half of its revenue comes from sales of media like books, music, TV shows
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  • This keeps iPads tethered to the paradigm of local storage, putting a premium on machines with more memory (which cost hundreds of dollars more). Amazon, by contrast, emphasizes streaming.
Phil Taylor

Information Overload? Here Are 10 Ways You - And Your Students - Can Deal With It - Inf... - 0 views

  • read the Internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, it would take you 57,000 years to reach the end. You could bind the pages in a 10,000-foot-tall book weighing 1.2 billion pounds.
Phil Taylor

Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Screentime - Focus On Quality, Not Quantity - 0 views

  • Would we ever discuss limiting book time? Would we ever tell children they’re spending too much time learning? Would we say think critically, but only in moderation
  • What’s important is that we stop judging screens and start looking at and guiding young people in their use of screens
Phil Taylor

Microsoft Teacher Guides: Developing Critical Thinking Through Web Research Skills | Le... - 1 views

  • A very useful e-book, understandably a little biased into Microsoft’s tools, particularly Bing, full of good references to critical thinking resources, accompanied with a vast selection of links to related sites.
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