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Phil Taylor

Elizabeth English: Why So Many Schools Remain Penitentiaries of Boredom - 0 views

  • Ask yourself, "What do I remember as the most rewarding and inspiring experience in school?
  • Yes, you need knowledge of the periodic table to do chemistry, but you don't need to memorize it if it's on your desktop -- electronic or otherwise. What matters is the ability to do something with the elements in the periodic table.
  • schools become relevant once more: in teaching our children to evaluate and use that information in ways that are important and meaningful and to satisfy their fundamental human desire to construct solutions for the world full of engaging and pressing problems they will inherit.
Phil Taylor

The Complete History of Social Media | Visual.ly - 0 views

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    Be sure to explore the time periods
Phil Taylor

Beautiful Brains| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

  • Aristotle concluded more than 2,300 years ago that "the young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine."
  • "We're so used to seeing adolescence as a problem. But the more we learn about what really makes this period unique, the more adolescence starts to seem like a highly functional, even adaptive period. It's exactly what you'd need to do the things you have to do then."
  • Teens take more risks not because they don't understand the dangers but because they weigh risk versus reward differently: In situations where risk can get them something they want, they value the reward more heavily than adults do.
Phil Taylor

Shift to the Future: Why BYOT? - 0 views

  • I liken BYOT to BYOP (bring your own pencil).  Imagine if students had to share pencils provided by their school or only had a couple of 40 minute periods per week where they were allowed to use pencils.
Phil Taylor

- From the Principal's Office: Autonomy Breeds Change - 1 views

  • every New Milford High School teacher two to three, forty eight minute periods a week, depending on the semester, to engage in growth opportunities of personal interest.  The only catch was that each staff member had to create and present a learning portfolio at his/ her end of year evaluation conference.  
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