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Insanity - 2 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 03 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • When was the “old system” knocking it out of the park?
  • I believe however that if we continue to have the same system for our kids that we had, something is wrong.
Phil Taylor

Apps in Education: My E-Textbook Manifesto: - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 23 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • As educators what do we want from e-textbooks?
  • need to be visually stunning
  • e-textbooks need to have an inherent interactivity that engages
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  • should be a fascinating read
  • e-Textbooks that are constantly update
  • able to change the variables so that the effects are changed accordingly
  • non-linear interactive media that allows the students the freedom to negotiate their own learning activities
  • visuals that can be dismantled in order to focus on one aspect
  • Can we monitor a students progress?
  • E-Textbooks are a tool, a tool that in the hands of good teachers and motivated students would produce some absolutely special results. E-Textbooks are only part of the solution. What we need is a situation where student buy-in to their own education. This is where you really see student engagement. 
  • What I really think is this! I think this is the most exciting time in history to be involved in education
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Not Just A Teacher: Teachers As Learners - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 30 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • learns best just like me-when she's interested, motivated, under no pressure of expectation and not afraid to fail. How do we as teachers transfer this type of learning to the classroom?
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In Schools of the Future, Students Learn Best by Doing, Vigorously and Digitally | Conn... - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 08 Sep 10 - Cached
  • It’s not about the computer; it’s about the learning.  Our students today both want and need to be active, engaged, collaborative, on-line, vigorous, empowered, creative,  solvers of real-world problems.   They need to be skilled and informed to do so, but they need to be challenged, motivated, and engaged in doing so.
  • We don’t need to end, abolish, or abandon any of these things.
Phil Taylor

How to Create Nonreaders - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 02 Oct 10 - Cached
  • What a teacher can do – all a teacher can do – is work with students to create a classroom culture, a climate, a curriculum that will nourish and sustain the fundamental inclinations that everyone starts out with:  to make sense of oneself and the world, to become increasingly competent at tasks that are regarded as consequential, to connect with (and express oneself to) other people.
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Educational Leadership:Giving Students Meaningful Work:Seven Essentials for Project-Bas... - 0 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 26 Oct 10 - Cached
  • launching a project with an "entry event" that engages interest and initiates questioning
  • Students created a driving question
  • product of students' choice created by teams
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  • each team regularly paused to review how well they were collaborating and communicating, using rubrics they had developed with the teacher's guidance
  • generated a list of more detailed questions
  • more meaningful if they conduct real inquiry
  • student teams critiqued one another's work
  • emphasizes that creating high-quality products and performances
  • A Publicly Presented Product
    • Phil Taylor
      Phil Taylor on 26 Oct 10
       
      High Tech High uses this as a great motivational tool
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