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Phil Taylor

Will Richardson: My Kids are Illiterate. Most Likely, Yours Are Too - 1 views

  • they're not "designing and sharing information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes." Nor are they "building relationships with others to solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally." And as far as "managing, analyzing and synthesizing multiple streams of information?"
  • National Council of Teachers of English feels a "literate person" should be able to do right now
  • If we don't talk about how learning is changing first, the schools we create will continue to be places of "tinkering on the edges" instead of truly changed spaces.
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  • the reality for my kids and yours is that they are going to be immersed in these spaces, potentially connecting and learning with two billion strangers, required to make sense of huge flows of information and creating and sharing their knowledge with the world. That is their reality; it wasn't ours.
Phil Taylor

Learn how to create engaging and interactive virtual field trips for your classroom | S... - 0 views

  • Virtual field trips can offer students more opportunities because you can take them to places they wouldn't normally be able to go to otherwise - like inside a volcano or ocean floor!
Phil Taylor

Education Week's Digital Directions: Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Lear... - 0 views

  • Some of the latest technology tools for the classroom, however, promise to ease the challenges of differentiating instruction more creatively and effectively, ed-tech experts say, even in an era of high-stakes federal and state testing mandates. New applications for defining and targeting students’ academic strengths and weaknesses can help teachers create a personal playlist of lessons, tools, and activities that deliver content in ways that align with individual needs and optimal learning methods.
  • Preliminary data showed significant student progress toward mastering the skills targeted in the program, officials say
  • “By leveraging technology to play a role in the delivery of instruction,” he says, “we can help to complement what live teachers do.”
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  • Making the Transition Experts caution, however, that instituting such large-scale change is not simply a matter of putting new tools in place. As in San Diego, most teachers will need extensive professional development to use digital tools and learn the best ways of teaching with technology.
  • ‘Feedback to Children’
  • “We have this generation of students that yearns to customize everything they come into contact with,”
Phil Taylor

The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination | Harvard Magazine - 0 views

  • You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
  • I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
  • And yet I also learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known before.
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  • Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places.
  • What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Phil Taylor

IWB's Help or Hurt? « My Island View - 1 views

  • I believe that IWB’s are an asset to the classroom. They can seamlessly use web 2.0 applications to engage students in creative and constructive lessons for learning. The important element in this however is the training of the teacher using the IWB. Without training the user, the IWB becomes an expensive video projector or an expensive PowerPoint presentation tool or a very expensive hat rack.
  • with a pilot who had a 747 placed in his driveway as an incentive to fly a bigger plane without training?
  • Kids understand IWB’s and want to use them. It’s the adults who need to be brought along. Creativity should be the focus and remembering should be the support.
Phil Taylor

13 Enlightening Case Studies of Social Media in the Classroom - 0 views

  • Here are 13 case studies that show that social media does have a place in the classroom:
Phil Taylor

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

  • from one of retroactive bleating about privacy to one of proactive filtering of what we choose to share in the first place.
Phil Taylor

Web Privacy - 0 views

  • Still, talking to strangers is different from handing over a set of your house keys. We’re learning how to draw the line between those extremes, and it’s a line that each of us will draw in different ways. That we get to make these decisions for ourselves is a step forward; the valley is a much richer and more connected place than the old divide between privacy and celebrity worship was. But it is going to take some time to learn how to live there.
Phil Taylor

Nature Conservancy magazine for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store - 0 views

  • Nature springs to life in Nature Conservancy magazine’s digital edition. Featuring the same engaging stories and stunning photography as the award-winning print magazine, plus exclusive photo galleries, videos, audio commentary, interactive maps and more. Explore lush rainforests, harsh deserts and the landscapes in between and discover how people are protecting these extraordinary places.
Phil Taylor

Why Google+ Could be a Game-Changer in Higher Education - Century College Marketing Pro... - 0 views

  • instructors have blasted Facebook (and rightfully so) for its poor privacy protections.
  • Google+ allows a person to place all of their contacts into Circles, allowing a user to control with great precision who among their contacts will have access to which bits of shared content.
Phil Taylor

Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest - 2 views

  • The best education images all in one place Access more than two million rights-cleared images
Phil Taylor

(Linda Stone's Thoughts on Attention and Specifically, Continuous Partial Attention ) - 0 views

  • We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing
  • It is an always-on, anywhere, anytime, any place behavior that involves an artificial sense of constant crisis. We are always in high alert when we pay continuous partial attention.
Phil Taylor

Don't use technology.… Do use technology.… - Mark Anderson's Blog - 1 views

  • includes knowing when to or not to use technology
  • fundamental aspect of SAMR is that in order for a task or learning sequence to be transformational it must have been previously inconceivable without the use of technology
  • Why aren’t teachers across the country embracing technology in ways that enable transformational learning opportunities to take place? There are two main reasons here, I believe. One of confidence. The other being pedagogy.
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