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Ed Tech Experts Share BYOD Challenges and Triumphs | EdTech Magazine - 0 views

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  • Luhtala said students shouldn't be marginalized for multitasking during class. If they aren't paying attention, she said, it's likely a result of the lesson plan. "To expect kids to put that behavior on hold is ludicrous," she said. "Keep them engaged and they won't be distracted."
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Facebook Messaging, Teens and School Work: Can Facebook Be a Social Learning Network? - 0 views

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  • With the clear partnership between Microsoft and Facebook, then, will Facebook become the new space for not just students but for students and teachers to work on class projects?
  • still see it as a distraction and a platform for stupid public disclosures by students and cyberbullying."
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4 Tips for Integrating Social Media Into the Classroom - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 12 May 10 - Cached
  • Instead of dismissing social media as distracting or destructive, schools should embrace it as an essential part of the curriculum. Not only does this limit the potential for students to abuse the technology, but it opens a new set of valuable educational tools.
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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 17 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Mr. Reilly hopes that the two can meet — that computers can be combined with education to better engage students and can give them technical skills without compromising deep analytical thought.
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quietube | Video without the distractions | Youtube, Viddler, Vimeo and more - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 25 Jan 11 - Cached
  • To watch web videos without the comments and crap, just drag the button below to your browser's bookmarks bar. On any of the supported video pages, click the bookmark button to watch in peace.
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10 years after laptops come to Maine schools, educators say technology levels playing f... - 0 views

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  • Laptops make learning and schoolwork more interesting, students and teachers said.
  • Writing test scores have improved
  • Freeport math skills have jumped
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  • Laptop critics, including some parents, complain that they can be a distraction from learning: Students spend too much time on social-networking sites, including Facebook and Skype. Overall, educators say the laptops have done what King promised: level the playing field of access to technology and help students become technology-literate.
  • It was difficult, but after a couple of months he learned to balance work and play, he said.
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Resources | Teaching With and About Technology - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • What are the potential benefits and drawbacks of using technology for learning? Are tech tools essentials, distractions or somewhere in between? How are other teachers using technology? What tech skills do today’s teachers need to use digital tools effectively?
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Always Connected - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 13 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Students today face far greater distractions than in generations past.
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(Linda Stone's Thoughts on Attention and Specifically, Continuous Partial Attention ) - 0 views

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  • We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing
  • It is an always-on, anywhere, anytime, any place behavior that involves an artificial sense of constant crisis. We are always in high alert when we pay continuous partial attention.
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People Who Own Tablets Are Glued to Them, Read More News - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 27 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • First and foremost, tablet owners are clearly more engaged when using the devices. Whereas the desktop has myriad distractions popping up left and right, tablets tend to be best for doing one or two tasks at a time. This is good for publishers, who struggle to keep the fractured attention of readers, but it's also good for other brands.
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EDUCATION: Today's mobile devices are tomorrow's textbooks | Luke Test Subsection - The... - 1 views

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  • Today, more teachers see the devices not as distractions but as tools to help students learn. And experts say the future of education may revolve around these hand-held instruments.
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Adaptive learning software is replacing textbooks and upending American education. Shou... - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 28 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • “Adaptive technologies presume that knowledge can be modularized and sequenced,” says Watters, the education writer. “This isn’t about the construction of knowledge. It’s still hierarchical, top-down, goal-driven.”
  • e latest techno-fad, destined to distract administrators and upset curricula for a few years until the next one comes along. But there are two reasons why adaptive learning might prove more durable than that. The first is that the textbook companies have invested in it so heavily that there may be no going back. The second: It might, in at least some settings, really work.
  • “I like to think of analogies to other places where science and technology have had an impact, like transportation. We went from walking to horse-drawn carriages to Model Ts, and now we have jet planes. So far in educational technology, we’re in the Model T stage.”
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  • “Unlike some younger tech startups, we don’t think the goal is to replace the teacher,” says Laster, the company’s chief digital officer. “We think education is inherently social, and that students need to learn from well-trained and well-versed teachers. But we also know that that time together, shoulder-to-shoulder, is more and more costly, and more and more precious.”
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50 Reasons It's Time For Smartphones In Every Classroom - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 30 Apr 17 - No Cached
  • To be clear–learning can happen in the absence of technology. Integrated poorly, technology can subdue, distract, stifle, and obscure the kind of personal interactions between learner, content, peer, and performance that lead to learning results.
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