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Phil Taylor

Disrupting Education: 8 Ideas That Will Break It Once And For All - 0 views

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education ideas

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  • Ideally this would free teachers for more human and emotionally complex interactions, provided strategic adjustments are made.
  • Microsoft, Apple, Google, Honda, Amazon, and well just about every other forward thinking company on earth are scrambling to adjust for a mobile culture that is cloud-based and social. This should affect everything in education, from how learning models and curriculum are designed, to how students interact with one another and their local communities.
  • Universities are decaying. At least in their current form.
Phil Taylor

3 Steps for Building a Professional Learning Network - Education Week Teacher - 0 views

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professional learning network pln pd

shared by Phil Taylor on 05 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • a PLN includes the organizations, communities, and individuals who help me learn and grow as a professional.
  • a PLN is about relationships
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21st Century Competencies - 0 views

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competencies change education plan

shared by Phil Taylor on 24 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • education is falling behind the curve,1 as it did during the rapid changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution.
  • The last major changes to cur­riculum2 were effected in the late 1800s as a response to the sudden growth in societal and human capital needs
  • Having students develop deep knowledge is as essential as ever. But today, we must also make that knowledge relevant.
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  • Tough choices must be made regarding what to pare back in order to allow for more appropriate areas of focus
  • we need to infuse “themes” — important lenses such as global literacy, environmental literacy, information literacy, digital literacy, systems thinking, and design thinking
  • Higher-order skills such as the “4 C’s” — creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration4 — are essential for deeply learning knowledge as well as for demonstrating understanding through performance.
  • Character is about how we engage in the world.
  • Meta-learning is the awareness of one’s own learning and cognitive ability. Having such an awareness is the best hedge against continuous changes.
  • Historical inertia has been a large deciding factor when it comes to curriculum design, at the policy/process level.
  • we must keep two key questions before us at all times: Is education relevant enough for this century? Are we educating students to be versatile in a world that is increasingly challenged and challenging?
  • The Opportunity for Independent Schools
Phil Taylor

What I'm Writing: February 2016 | Matt Renwick - 0 views

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learning 4Cs edtech

shared by Phil Taylor on 18 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration can all happen in the absence of the digital element. It is when we recognize through our instructional preparations that a real need for these technology tools becomes necessary, instead of merely nice.
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