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Phil Taylor

ISTE | How to develop computational thinkers - 0 views

  • (CT) is the highest order of problem-solving, is a cross-curricular skill, and is understandable to both machines and humans, I recommend building student CT competency by developing their versatility for recognizing and applying the four elements of CT to familiar problems/situations.
Phil Taylor

How I Eliminated (Almost) All Grading Problems In My Classroom - - 0 views

  • In other words, they hadn’t failed my assessment; my assessment had failed them because it had failed to uncover what they, in fact, knew.
Phil Taylor

FETC 2018: Ken Robinson argues 2 key points in support of creative schools | Education ... - 0 views

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    Can you solve the problem the monkey can?
Phil Taylor

Are we preparing students for life? « My Island View - 0 views

  • We cannot continue on the current path of education if we want to prepare our children for their future. Our children will not live in the world that we grew up in. We need to prepare them to be flexible, critical thinking, problem solvers.
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Monitoring your kids on Facebook? - 0 views

  • "It's not anything that every parent and grandparent hasn't already seen," Harkness said. The problem, he adds, is the actions "get documented, replayed and sent around," and kids "forget how fast it moves and how far it goes."
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Personalize Learning: Stages of Personalized Learning Environments - 0 views

  • Some questions to consider before embarking on your journey to personalize learning: Why do you want to personalize learning for your learners? What problems or needs have you identified in your school, organization and/or community? What data can you show that demonstrates the need to personalize learning? What does teaching and learning look like now? What are stakeholders beliefs about learning and change? Why is it critical for your organization and/or community to change now? What challenges or obstacles do you envision as you move to personalizing learning? What do you envision for your personalized learning environment?
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

What Districts Should Know About BYOD and Digital Learning | EdTech Magazine - 1 views

  • The ability to take ownership of one's own learning and to pursue problems and solutions of one's own making are essential components of the 21st century skill set.
Phil Taylor

Computer Science Is More Than Just Coding | EdSurge News - 0 views

  • Computer science is fundamentally about logic, reasoning and problem solving.
Phil Taylor

#1: The 7 questions every new teacher should be able to answer | eSchool News - 0 views

  • “The ability to ask good questions. Almost all of the answers to traditional school problems are on the internet—What is not on the internet are the questions.”
Phil Taylor

A Principal's Reflections: Common Misconceptions of Educators Who Fear Technology - 2 views

  • Common Misconceptions of Educators Who Fear Technology
  • Control: For technology to be not only integrated effectively, but also embraced, a culture needs to be established where teachers and administrators are no longer fearful of giving up a certain amount of control to students.  T
  • Lack of training: With the integration of technology comes change.  With change comes the inevitable need to provide quality professional development. 
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  • We are beginning to see some schools across the country take the lead in merging sound pedagogy with the effective integration of technology.  These schools and educators, whether they realize it or not, are not only enhancing the teaching and learning process, but they are also providing their learners with essential skill sets pivotal for success in today’s society.  These skill sets include critical thinking/problem solving, media literacy, collaboration, creativity, technological proficiency, and global awareness.  The ultimate result with this shift has been increases in engagement as well as a sense of relevancy and meaning amongst learners, all of which are foundations for improving achievement.
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The More You Struggle with New Information the More Likely You Are to Learn It - 2 views

  • It's a healthy reminder that struggling through a difficult problem—whether it's learning Photoshop, getting used to a new webapp, or picking up a new skill—is a necessary part of the learning process.
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Technology: Why Are Students Better Than Teachers At Using It? - 0 views

  • Because information is easy for students to get, they deal with problems, projects, and learning in a different way.
  • So, there is a gap between students and teachers. I can’t say for sure how wide the gap is, but it certainly seems to be getting smaller (that’s the good news). But, it is not happening fast enough (that’s the bad news).
  • Traditionally, it has been the teachers showing the students something new – now, it seems as though the students are showing something new to their teachers. That’s not an issue, it just means that teachers need to be aware of these changes, accept them, and make sure that students learn how deal with it all. The job is still the same – prepare the students for their future.
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  • Support your colleagues, try something new whenever you can, and don’t be afraid of making a mistake.
Phil Taylor

Move Over Harvard And MIT, Stanford Has The Real "Revolution In Education" | TechCrunch - 0 views

  • recent one-week study that compared the outcomes of two classes, a control class that received a lecture from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and an experimental section where students worked with graduate assistants to solve physics problems. Test scores for the experimental group (non-lecture) was nearly double that of the control section (41% to 74%).
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Child Therapy Works - 2 views

I have the chance of asking professional help for my kid who has been depressed for the past few weeks. We did not know what the reason was and so we asked help from NLP4Kids a reputed therapy orga...

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