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Phil Taylor

A Principal's Reflections: Common Misconceptions of Educators Who Fear Technology - 2 views

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  • Common Misconceptions of Educators Who Fear Technology
  • Control: For technology to be not only integrated effectively, but also embraced, a culture needs to be established where teachers and administrators are no longer fearful of giving up a certain amount of control to students.  T
  • Lack of training: With the integration of technology comes change.  With change comes the inevitable need to provide quality professional development. 
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  • We are beginning to see some schools across the country take the lead in merging sound pedagogy with the effective integration of technology.  These schools and educators, whether they realize it or not, are not only enhancing the teaching and learning process, but they are also providing their learners with essential skill sets pivotal for success in today’s society.  These skill sets include critical thinking/problem solving, media literacy, collaboration, creativity, technological proficiency, and global awareness.  The ultimate result with this shift has been increases in engagement as well as a sense of relevancy and meaning amongst learners, all of which are foundations for improving achievement.
Phil Taylor

Move Over Harvard And MIT, Stanford Has The Real "Revolution In Education" | TechCrunch - 0 views

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  • recent one-week study that compared the outcomes of two classes, a control class that received a lecture from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and an experimental section where students worked with graduate assistants to solve physics problems. Test scores for the experimental group (non-lecture) was nearly double that of the control section (41% to 74%).
Phil Taylor

TeachersFirst: Hands off, Vanna! Giving Students Control of Interactive Whiteboard Lear... - 0 views

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  • First and foremost, let's give students control of IWB learning. These ideas and strategies will help you configure both physical space and learning activities so the IWB becomes a collaborative, student workspace instead of a magic, teacher-centered lesson machine.
Phil Taylor

Interactive Whiteboard Insights: The Reasons Why Interactive Whiteboards Are Being Atta... - 0 views

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  • Hardware and software do not help our students learn in the absence of a teacher. It is completely up to the teacher whether or not an IWB is used effectively in the classroom.
  • When the students came to the board and were able to physically touch the content, the hardware barrier between the student and the content was blurred, and the students seemed to be controlling the content directly versus controlling the content via the mouse.
  • Teachers go through phases in their use of interactive whiteboards. I
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  • Some concepts still need to be directly taught,
Phil Taylor

Teens "Sexting" & Texting Need Parental Controls | GeekDad | Wired.com - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 08 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Sadly, a good portion of the current youth populace seems to have little regard for the privacy and personal safety of their peers, as evidenced by the articles linked above.
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