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Phil Taylor

8 Observations on flipping the classroom - Articles - Educational Technology ... - 0 views

  • In the best classrooms there is a good balance of different activities, including “lecturing”,and that kind of variety lends a sense of pace to the lesson, and helps to make it a good and enjoyable learning experience for the students.
Phil Taylor

CristinaSkyBox: Teaching, Learning - 0 views

  • Do you regard educators as life-long learners? Can an educator ever know everything there is to know?
  • Being an educator also means being a learner. Each generation is different, every class will have its own culture and personality, each individual student is a world of his/her own. The culture of education is rich and complex; a never-ending learning challenge.
Phil Taylor

The 21st Century Teacher - 1 views

  • When students were succeeding in school with no technology, we were also living in a world with little technology, and preparing students for life in a world where technology wasn't a part of their daily lives.  
  • Technology is no substitute for an inspiring teacher. However, on-line materials are far more available. Twenty times more.
  • Because the students have access to the same tools over the web, they can reinforce the ideas by experimenting with the simulations themselves, any time, any where.
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  • Instead of teaching (push), students can be given projects that require them to learn (pull) the necessary material themselves.
  • A vital skill in the new digital world is the ability to work collaboratively on projects with others who may not be physically close.
  • The worldview of the student can be expanded because of the zero cost of communicating with other people around the globe.
  • Students are, of course, all different.
  • To cash in this benefit, schools need to go paperless.
Phil Taylor

How Digital Learning is Boosting Achievement | Getting Smart by %author_name% | %tag% - 0 views

  • The potential of personalized learning technology—as evidenced in the military, gaming, corporate training, and informal learning—suggest the potential going forward is much greater that what we’ve seen to date.  When technology is used to extend, personalize and transform learning, it makes a world of difference.
Phil Taylor

Social Learning Academy - 0 views

  • The Social Learning Academy is intended for learning professionals  - in Workplace Learning and Education - who are new to social media and would like to find out more about the different social technologies and their application to learning.
Phil Taylor

The Digital Generation Project | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Today's kids are born digital -- born into a media-rich, networked world of infinite possibilities. But their digital lifestyle is about more than just cool gadgets; it's about engagement, self-directed learning, creativity, and empowerment. The Digital Generation Project tells their stories so that educators and parents can understand how kids learn, communicate, and socialize in very different ways than any previous generation.
Phil Taylor

Op-Ed Columnist - The Medium Is the Medium - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • It’s the change in the way the students see themselves as they build a home library. They see themselves as readers, as members of a different group.
Phil Taylor

Part I: Answers to Questions About Video Games and Learning - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • When students use facts and information to solve problems they both gain the facts and information and learn to solve problems. Games are one good way to do this, because a video game is problem solving with lots of practice, feedback, and assessment (e.g., boss battles). But this style of learning can and should be done in many different ways.
Phil Taylor

YouTube - Copyright 101 for Teachers - 0 views

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    American law is different than ours
Phil Taylor

2020 Vision: Experts Forecast What the Digital Revolution Will Bring Next -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • most dramatic technology-enabled transformations are still ahead of us.
  • second part is the mobility we now have, so that the resources and connections are in our hands wherever we go
  • “It’s absolutely unbelievable how slow change occurs in a school system. Even if something is proven to be a great idea or something we should try, it takes a long, long time to change the whole thing—administration, teachers, parents, students. I almost expect things to look not too different in the next 10 to 15 years, unfortunately, and that’s not something that I wish.”
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  • Given that education is a knowledge industry, we need to figure out how we get every student his or her own personal device
Phil Taylor

The Committed Sardine - blog - 0 views

  • today’s students have the ability to start ripples in society, and a good education leader will know how to give students the skills they need to start those ripples.
  • kids are really doing is jumping between different tasks and not giving each task full attention.
  • continual partial attention
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  • “The question you should be asking is, ‘When they leave school, are they even more curious than when they began?’”
  • One of the greatest ways to engage students and teach 21st-century skills is by using the web for collaboration,”
  • The work of the group as a whole needs to be assessed as well.”
Phil Taylor

Apple - Challenge Based Learning - About - 1 views

  • Challenge Based Learning applies what is known about the emerging learning styles of high school students and leverages the powerful new technologies that provide new opportunities to learn to provide an authentic learning process that challenges students to make a difference
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