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Phil Taylor

Inquiry Based Learning is dead, long live inquiry. - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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inquiry based learning learner

shared by Phil Taylor on 30 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Not that this is a truly radical idea, Einstein understood this and stated ‘Education is not the learning of facts, it’s rather the training of a mind to think’.
  • If our goal is to teach students to swim we would not do so by pushing them into the sea, but we would also not expect them to learn to swim without ever getting into the water.
  • go back to trying to understand how we may best support our students achieve their potential and prepare for a world beyond our classrooms
Phil Taylor

How much screen time is OK for my kid(s)? - 0 views

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screen time kid

shared by Phil Taylor on 06 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • the AAP will be issuing new recommendations in 2016 emphasizing that not all screen time is equal and that take into account the many different kinds of activities that occur on screens (for example, watching TV is not the same as video-chatting with Grandma). The reality is that most families will go through periods of heavy and light media use, but, so long as there's a balance, kids should be just fine.
Phil Taylor

Full STEAM Ahead: Why Arts Are Essential in a STEM Education | Edutopia - 0 views

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STEAM arts stem

shared by Phil Taylor on 08 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • True STE(A)M education means that students are creating, applying, and incorporating mathematics and at least one of the other content areas into their work. Not every project is going to include every letter in STEM, but ideally, they should allow for the integration of at least two of them
Phil Taylor

The Best Productivity Tool Is The One You Actually Use - 0 views

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productivity tool

shared by Phil Taylor on 23 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • With very few exceptions, switching apps or trying a new system isn’t going to have any big effect on your productivity. That’s because productivity is ultimately about you.
Phil Taylor

Ten questions to ask when designing a blended course | Centre for Teaching Excellence - 0 views

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designing blended course teaching

shared by Phil Taylor on 10 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • There is a tendency for faculty to require students to do more work in a blended course than they normally would complete in a traditional face-to-face course. What are you going to do to ensure that you have not created a course and one-half? How will you evaluate the student workload (and your own) as compared to a traditional class?
Phil Taylor

Blended Learning in Private Schools: An Interview with Mark Engstrom - ISM - 0 views

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blended blended learning private schools

shared by Phil Taylor on 01 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • There’s always going to be a demand for an adult to be leading child instruction. They’re needed for the feedback piece, or the compassion piece, or the guidance piece. Besides, parents will want that; they feel most comfortable with that.
  • The program has to be mission-driven.
  • Right now, we’re in a murky, gray area when it comes to blended learning. In 20 years, we’ll have some tried and true methods. Right now, it’s just messy. And schools have to be okay with messy, with not smooth.
Phil Taylor

Adaptive learning software is replacing textbooks and upending American education. Shou... - 0 views

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software adaptive learning textbook publishing blended blended learning

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

5 Approaches to Ensure Blended Learning Success - 0 views

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blended blended learning learning success

shared by Phil Taylor on 14 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Slow and easy is always the best way to go. Believe it or not, students are not always as prepared as we think.
  • an example using the rotational model
  • mix your classroom up into a digital playground
Phil Taylor

We are not addicted to smartphones, we are addicted to social interaction - 0 views

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smartphones social interaction

shared by Phil Taylor on 08 Mar 18 - No Cached
  • Healthy urges can become unhealthy addictions
  • Turning off push notifications and setting up appropriate times to check your phone can go a long way to regain control over smartphone
  • workplace policies "that prohibit evening and weekend emails" are also important
denzeljudy

Free Coloring Printables - Best and beautiful free coloring printables for teens - 0 views

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shared by denzeljudy on 19 Sep 22 - No Cached
  • denzeljudy on 19 Sep 22
     
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