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Phil Taylor

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

  • 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

NJ private school requiring students to have iPads next year | MyCentralJersey.com | My... - 0 views

  • soon could make obsolete the days of children lugging bags of heavy books on their backs
  • it feels like the Internet in 1995. You can see where it's going, but it's not there yet,"
  • "A big part of our academic experience is learning to use your time wisely," he said, and added that he expects students will using them responsibly during class.
Phil Taylor

The Single Best Idea for Reforming K-12 Education - Forbes - 1 views

  • “single best idea for reforming K-12 education”.
  • Root cause: factory model of management
  • The goal needs to shift from one of making a system that teaches children a curriculum more efficiently to one of making the system more effective by inspiring lifelong learning in students, so that they are able to have full and productive lives in a rapidly shifting economy.
Phil Taylor

5 Myths About Digital Natives | Upside Learning Blog - 0 views

  • I would say this is completely wrong. Children if interested and motivated will stick to task for hours, days and weeks. I’ve noticed this with my kid; he loves to play LocoRoco on the PSP;
Phil Taylor

Survey Finds Parents Mostly OK With Kids' Use of Tech - 0 views

  • concern over stranger danger is interesting given that the actual risk (as opposed to perceived) of a child being harm by a stranger they meet online is very low.
  • understand actual risks as measured by data from organizations like the Crimes Against Children Research Department, the Centers for Disease Control, the Justice Department and others who keep up-to-date records on risks and harms.
  • great to see that parents are in-touch with their kids’ use of technology
Phil Taylor

How much screen time is OK for my kid(s)? - 0 views

  • the AAP will be issuing new recommendations in 2016 emphasizing that not all screen time is equal and that take into account the many different kinds of activities that occur on screens (for example, watching TV is not the same as video-chatting with Grandma). The reality is that most families will go through periods of heavy and light media use, but, so long as there's a balance, kids should be just fine.
Phil Taylor

Our Push for 'Passion,' and Why It Harms Kids - The New York Times - 0 views

  • For most children, childhood isn’t about passion, but rather about exploration.
Phil Taylor

Not all screen time is equal: Some considerations for schools and parents - Shooting Az... - 0 views

  • According to Livingstone and Blum-Ross ‘screen time’ “is an obsolete concept. As digital media become integrated into all aspects of daily life, it is more important to consider the context and content of digital media use, and the connections children and young people (and parents) are making, or not, than to consider arbitrary rules about time.”
Phil Taylor

Connected Professional Development Is Now An Imperative - 0 views

  • Our classrooms still look so much like they did when we (the readers of this blog post) were in school; maybe even when our parents were in school. The children we are preparing to enter the world are not entering at a 1985 ideal–they are entering at 2025. What are we doing with our content that is preparing them for the world they live in (or the world they will graduate into?)?
Phil Taylor

Why Even Young Students Benefit From Connecting Globally | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views

  • I worry that young children who are isolated from social technologies will not learn HOW to be safe online
Phil Taylor

Panicked about Kids' Addiction to Tech? - NewCo Shift - 0 views

  • children learn values and norms by watching their parents and other caregivers.
  • Once you begin saying out loud every time you look at technology, you also realize how much you’re looking at technology. And what you’re normalizing for your kids.
  • Teenagers loathe hypocrisy. It’s the biggest thing that I’ve seen to undermine trust between a parent and a child.
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  • When there is a disconnect between parent and child’s views on a situation, the best thing a parent can do is try to understand why the disconnect exists.
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