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Phil Taylor

- True Story by Bob Sprankle - 1 views

  • f we as teachers fear learning or integrating these new "digital literacies" into our classrooms, is it the same as being afraid of teaching the reading literacy that has taken hold largely in part due to Gutenberg? I realize that this argument is a bit of an oversimplification. However, new literacies will in fact continue to develop and have the potential for significant disruption, much like what happened 500 years ago.
  • Which of course, begs the next question: how do we know that we are using reliable information.
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    Gutenberg presses did not immediately enable people to overthrow....
Phil Taylor

Text Messages - The Least Common Denominator in the Classroom | Disrupt Education | Big... - 0 views

  • “You have to start with the customer experience and start working backwards to the technology.”
Phil Taylor

Do iPads Have the Capacity to Change Education? - iPads in Education - 0 views

  • Professional development becomes far more valuable when it searches beyond the simple nuts and bolts of technical use and instead encourages teachers to disrupt the traditional flow of education - to dabble, experiment and re-imagine how that technology can be used to sculpt new educational horizons.
Phil Taylor

:: The 4th Era :: | Scoop.it - 0 views

  • this new era is accompanied with, and characterized by, a new information landscape. This new Internet landscape will challenge, disrupt, and overpower the print-oriented one that came before it. It will not completely obliterate that which preceded it, but it will render it to a subsidary, rather than primary, level of influence.
Phil Taylor

Worlds End, Worlds Begin: Web 2.0 and/as The Apocalypse: What The Terminator Has to Tea... - 0 views

  • Web 2.0 and/as The Apocalypse: What The Terminator Has to Teach Us About Our Future
  • only mean to highlight the disruptive and destructive consequences that have been set in motion by the shift from a life mediated by paper to a life mediated by the screen.
  • educators occupy the position now that astronomers held during the 16th century. For astronomers, the choice between models for the universe was neither trivial nor inconsequential; it was definitive.
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  • we grew up in a world of single authored books, of learned experts in their libraries, of professors holding forth before the silent masses, those days are gone and it is our responsibility to invent an educational system appropriate to the new reality.
Phil Taylor

Not Your Father's School: A Letter to New Teachers - 1 views

  • teaching isn’t about content and it’s not about technology. It’s about kids, about building relationships with them, about believing in them, about finding out what they can do and then providing opportunities for them to do it.
  • Know your students, have faith in their capacities, and magical things will happen.
  • you’re a professional now
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  • The best teachers do the same, and you should try to emulate that—if for no other reason than to stay on the right side of all the disruptive change that’s coming along.
  • the strongest teachers are very good at gently, and sometimes not so gently, reminding parents that we’re all on the same side here
  • go to your school’s website and re-read the mission statement. If there are sections on values, and history, read those, too.
Phil Taylor

The University of Wherever - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Two recent events at Stanford University suggest that the day is growing nearer when quality higher education confronts the technological disruptions that have already upended the music and book industries, humbled enterprises from Kodak to the Postal Service (not to mention the newspaper business), and helped destabilize despots across the Middle East.
Phil Taylor

Nine Elements - 0 views

  • requires sophisticated searching and processing skills
  • many users have not been taught how to make appropriate decisions
  • we must teach everyone to become responsible digital citizens
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  • All people should have fair access to technology no matter who they are.
  • learn about how to be effective consumers in a new digital economy
  • Users need to understand that stealing or causing damage to other people’s work, identity, or property online is a crime.
  • digital rights must be addressed
  • also come responsibilities as well
  • culture where technology users are taught how to protect themselves through education and training
  • In any society, there are individuals who steal, deface, or disrupt other people.
  • Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. 
Phil Taylor

Experts on the Future of Work, Jobs Training and Skills | Pew Research Center - 0 views

  • Many of them say that current K-12 or K-16 education programs are incapable of making adjustments within the next decade to serve the shifting needs of future jobs markets.
  • “The most important skill is a meta-skill: the ability to adapt to changes. This ability to adapt is what distinguished Homo sapiens from other species through natural selection.
  • The nature of this change may require the world to shift to a ‘Post Economic Growth’ model to avoid societal dislocation and disruption.”
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  • “The degree and perhaps the prestige of the institution gets you the first interview, but it is your ability to do good work that keeps the job and move[s] you to the next level.
  • Most actual assessment (not to be confused with multiple-choice tests) in school or professional programs is based on expert recognition.
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