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Phil Taylor

Worlds End, Worlds Begin: Bang a Gong, Walter Ong: After Orality and Literacy - 0 views

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begin worlds literacy writing change

shared by Phil Taylor on 26 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • But first, a caveat: there are exceptions to every generalization I am about to make.
  • irresolvable paradox that, without writing, we would not have Plato's staging of this discussion nor any record at all of Socrates' encounter with Phaedrus or of the Socratic method, nor indeed would there have been an Athens, as such, to remember.
  • Plato’s struggle with the relatively new technology of writing
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  • The move from a print-centric to a network-centric world? Is this globally significant? Does this revolution in human communication have a cultural dynamic?
  • In this universe, everything revolves around the publisher who controls access to the means of production.
  • Web 2.0, which allows all readers to become writers, is the end of publishing as we have known it since the invention of Gutenberg's printing press
  • Writers still have their dog-earred personal copies of books ready to hand, but now they also have all been issued keys to the globe's virtual Alexandria Library. 
  • the advent of Web 2.0 is the sign of that the apocalypse is at hand and that what lies ahead is a shattering of all the organizing structures of contemporary reality
Phil Taylor

Educational Leadership:Learning in the Digital Age:The New WWW: Whatever, Whenever, Whe... - 0 views

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leadership www web2.0 pitfalls opportunity plan

shared by Phil Taylor on 09 Feb 10 - Cached
  • counteract the New WWW's potentially harmful impact on youth, educators must use technology to create learning experiences that are real, rich, and relevant.
  • Next will come 4G, in which data rates are expected to be 100 times faster than those in this first 3G wave. As the delivery platform of broadband content and functionality shifts from computer to personal device, we will be surrounded by a multimedia aura that accompanies us wherever we go
  • The plan is that you'll use your phone to spend money everywhere, all the time.
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  • What choices do we expect them to make if their pockets are loaded with cash and the shelves bulge with penny candy—especially when there's no parent in sight? The choice won't be between yes and no, but between what kind? and what next? Maybe someone needs to watch over this New WWW.
  • Children believe that getting whatever they want will make them happy. As adults, we know otherwise.
  • engaging in personally meaningful actions, and performing service to something larger than themselves.
  • we must also acknowledge that schools have too much of both. But the joy of learning has neither! One of the most powerful definitions of teaching I know comes from Maria Harris: “Teaching is the creation of a situation in which subjects, human subjects, are handed over to themselves”
  • We can “hand students over to themselves.” We can engage them in the joys of learning, of making meaning, of being part of something larger than themselves, of testing themselves against authentic challenges. We can shift them from passivity and consumption to action and creativity. And believe it or not, the New WWW can help us.
  • New WWW shifts learning power to the students themselves.
  • students can demonstrate their learning in a persuasive essay, a sardonic blog, a moving short film, a robust wiki entry, or a humorous podcast, why would we demand deadening conformity?
  • I call this kind of Web site a ClassAct Portal: Class because the site involves a whole class of students; Act because it supports authentic, active learning; ClassAct because it provides a real-world forum for students to exercise their best efforts; and Portal because the site serves as a window to resources, information, activities, and communities.
Phil Taylor

NSFW: Facebook Breached My Privacy, And Other Things That Whiny, Entitled Dipshits Say - 1 views

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facebook privacy breached nsfw

shared by Phil Taylor on 12 May 10 - Cached
  • from one of retroactive bleating about privacy to one of proactive filtering of what we choose to share in the first place.
Phil Taylor

Microsoft Releases Math 4.0 Free -- THE Journal - 1 views

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math microsoft free

shared by Phil Taylor on 16 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Microsoft has released a new version of its math education software Mathematics 4.0, making it available as a free download for the first time.
Phil Taylor

Their First 15 Minutes; Identity Day - 0 views

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identityday Identity day PBL

shared by Phil Taylor on 08 Jun 11 - Cached
  • The thought behind Identity Day was that every single student and staff member would share something that they were passionate about and create some type of display or presentation to show this interest. 
Phil Taylor

YouTube for Teachers « doug - off the record - 0 views

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youtube teachers education

shared by Phil Taylor on 30 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • the announcement that YouTube for Teachers is so important. 
  • How do you use the resource to build upon and enhance your lesson? First, you start by building your own channel.
Phil Taylor

Learner First - 1 views

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Learner pbl teaching

shared by Phil Taylor on 16 Sep 11 - No Cached
  •  I am all for PBL but I think that we need to not only create the opportunities for our students to do this, but for ourselves as well.  Again referencing the Wagner book, schools in Singapore are seeing the importance of learning communities that promote active learning:
Phil Taylor

eLearning Blog // Don't Waste Your Time » Google Wave in education - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 30 Nov 09 - Cached
  • m my first post on Google Wave: “What is Google Wave?” I’ve been finding and reading (a
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Phil Taylor

A Year with the iPad - Cole Camplese: Learning and Innovation - 0 views

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ipad year education

shared by Phil Taylor on 08 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • I got to see software being rethought for the first time in a long time. That little insight is what pushed me from forcing myself to be an iPad user to actually becoming an iPad user — things are different on it and it is pointless to build comparisons to a regular computer.
  • purely consumption device and that just isn’t the case
  • that sounds strange even for me as I read it back … the laptop is too limiting. I can’t for example easily move betwee
Phil Taylor

People Who Own Tablets Are Glued to Them, Read More News - 0 views

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people tablets news pew research

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.
Phil Taylor

Growth in Flipped Blended Learning | eLearning Marketplace - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 21 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • but the learning objectives must come first and then the right online content, or tool to create the content, must be chosen to ensure the best fit to enable learners to achieve the required learning objectives. The
Phil Taylor

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

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.”
Phil Taylor

How To Design A 21st Century Assessment - - 0 views

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assessment 21stcenturylearning

shared by Phil Taylor on 29 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Action Step 1: Stop thinking technology first.
  • Action Step 2: Give students authentic choice in how they will demonstrate their learning.
  • Action Step 3: Help students seek feedback from other students, other educators, and experts in the field.
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  • Action Step 4: Provide always-on, asynchronous access to that which is being assessed.
  • We need to think about our end goal.
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