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Donald Clark Plan B: BYOD: 7 reasons to leave them to their own devices - 0 views

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    "BYOD: 7 reasons to leave them to their own devices"
Phil Taylor

6 pillars of a 1:1 initiative SmartBlogs - 0 views

  • Moving from a traditional classroom to a 1:1 classroom takes time and patience. All major stakeholders need time to adjust to having technology and information at their fingertips. Very few things bring instant and sustainable success. The most successful things in life take a lot of time and patience.
Phil Taylor

Donald Clark Plan B: 21st Century Skills are so last century! - 1 views

  • There is no area of human endeavour that is less collaborative than education. Teaching and lecturing are largely lone wolf activities in classrooms.
  • Surely it’s our schools and universities, not young people, who need to be dragged into the 21st century.
  • Creative people tend to struggle somewhat at school where academic subjects and exams brand them as failures.
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  • I agree with the substantive point that many educators don't have skills to teach these things directly, but I do think we can create environments in which they can emerge and be developed.
Phil Taylor

Donald Clark Plan B: More pedagogic change in 10 years than last 1000 years - all drive... - 0 views

  • he internet is a pedagogic engine, changing and shaping the way we learn. In this sense, we’ve had more pedagogic change in the last 10 years than in the last 1000 years – all driven by innovation in technology.
  • 1. Asynchronous – the new default
  • 2. Links – free from tyranny of linear learning
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  • 3. Search and rescue
  • 4. Wikipedia and death of the expert
  • 5. Facebook and friends
  • 6. Twitter, texting and posting
  • 7. Youtube – less is more and ‘knowing how’ YouTube has changed the way we use video in learning for ever.
  • 8. Games Games have brought the proven sophistication of flight simulation into our homes and shown that failure (abhorred in traditional teaching) is the key to learning.
  • 9. Tools This is not often recognised but the word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tools have effected a considerable change on pedagogy.
  • 10. Open source
  • Conclusion These are ground breaking shifts in the way we learn. Unfortunately, they’re not matched by the way we teach. The growing gap between teaching practice and learning practice is acute and growing.
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