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The rise of Mean World Syndrome in social media - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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syndrome social media media

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  • consumers of mass media can come to believe that the world is more dangerous than it actually is through constant exposure to violent imagery or commentary
  • That “off” switch is becoming more important in the social media age, experts say. Seeking out information to ascertain one’s personal safety is a biological imperative, but so is a tendency to overdo things. Much of the solution will depend on people becoming aware of their own satiation points, Hodson says.
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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

Which Generation is Most Distracted by Their Phones? - 0 views

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generation phones addiction

shared by Phil Taylor on 02 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Adults are as addicted—if not more addicted—to technology as teenagers.  
  • adults’ smartphone addiction telepressure: “the combination of a strong urge to be responsive to people at work through message-based [information and communications technologies and] a preoccupation with quick response times.”
  • It’s worth considering: When we criticize teens who are glued to their screens, are we offering wise advice? Or are we projecting our own mixed feelings onto them?
Phil Taylor

The death of the digital native: four provocations from Digifest speaker, Donna Lanclos... - 0 views

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native speaker technology

shared by Phil Taylor on 23 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • A very different paradigm is 'visitor and resident'1. Instead of talking about these essentialised categories of native and immigrant, we should be talking about modes of behaviour
  • A very different paradigm is 'visitor and resident'1. Instead of talking about these essentialised categories of native and immigrant, we should be talking about modes of behaviour
Phil Taylor

Learning in the age of Social Networks - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 27 Mar 17 - No Cached
  • We have access to so much information that our capacity to filter, process and respond is overwhelmed. We live in bubbles and rely on others to filter our world view by means we little understand.
Phil Taylor

Today, Kids Need To Learn More Than Facts, But To Solve Problems And Innovate | Inc.com - 0 views

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learning design thinking

shared by Phil Taylor on 28 May 17 - No Cached
  • Today, however, teenagers carry far more information and computing power in their pockets than would ever fit in their heads.
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