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"Cellphones are a Distraction" « My Island View - 1 views

  • Note-passing is the bane of a teacher’s existence and this method is technological. Again, there are procedures in place for passing notes. The teacher needs only to now stipulate written or digital; problem solved.
  •  Smartphones are powerful, mobile, personal learning devices.  But of course, there is that damned control issue thing.
  • Why not teach them how to maximize their learning. We can’t expect them to use the technology appropriately if they “learn it on the streets”.
Phil Taylor

Project-Based Learning: Real-World Issues Motivate Students | Edutopia - 2 views

  • In a growing number of schools, educators are echoing Papert's assertion that engaging students by starting with the concrete and solving hands-on, real-world problems is a great motivator.
Phil Taylor

The 60-Second Guide To Texting In The Classroom | Edudemic - 1 views

  • Although cell phones have the potential to pose a number of problems in the classroom, technologies offered by cell phones can be harnessed to improve student learning
Phil Taylor

YouTube for Schools keeps YouTube educational | Ubergizmo - 0 views

  • YouTube can be used as a valuable teaching tool in the classroom, but while it is chockfull of educational content and useful knowledge – it is also filled to the brim with distracting videos. Cute kittens, people “failing”, music videos, cartoon series, and more – content that distracts kids from using YouTube as a learning channel. Fortunately Google recognized this problem and has launched a solution called YouTube for Schools.
Phil Taylor

- 10 Important Skills Students need for the Future - 4 views

  • However, in today's world of the web and smart phones, facts and content are less important. Students, and the workforce, need to know how to think critically, find and evaluate information, work in teams, communicate effectively, solve problems and apply knowledge and skills to new things and be able to learn on their own.
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Phil Taylor

The Information Diet: Not Just A Book, A Movement For Conscious Consumption of Informat... - 0 views

  • suggesting the problem isn’t the amount of information we have at our disposal, but our mindless consumption of it.
Phil Taylor

Creating 21st-Century Teachers for 21st-Century Students| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

  • If we want students to collaborate, innovate, and solve problems, we need to model these skills ourselves.
Phil Taylor

To Flip or Not to Flip | Flipped Learning - 1 views

  • the amazing thing about flipping is that it enabled us to move from a lecture based classroom to a learner-centered, problem-based, inquiry-driven hub of learning.   In fact today, our videos are optional.
  • students will take more responsibility for their own learning
Phil Taylor

The flip: Turning a classroom upside down - The Washington Post - 0 views

  • The philosophy behind the flip is that teachers can spend time working with students who need their help in the classroom — and students can work together to solve problems
Phil Taylor

Teachers Report Educational Benefits of Frequent Technology Use -- THE Journal - 1 views

  • "Frequent technology users place considerably more emphasis on developing students' 21st century skills--specifically, skills in accountability, collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking, ethics, global awareness, innovation, leadership, problem solving, productivity and self-direction.
Phil Taylor

Daniel Pink's Think Tank: Flip-thinking - the new buzz word sweeping the US - Telegraph - 0 views

  • He’s recorded his lectures on video and uploaded them to YouTube for his 28 students to watch at home. Then, in class, he works with students as they solve problems and experiment with the concepts.
Phil Taylor

LifeLike Pedagogy - Imagine students choosing what to study... - 0 views

  • Connecting the school to the world, the students are taught via the experience of real problems and real enterprises.
Phil Taylor

'Internet Predator' Stereotypes Debunked in New Study - 0 views

  • most online sex offenders are adults who target teens and seduce victims into sexual relationships. They take time to develop the trust and confidence of victims, so that the youth see these relationships as romances or sexual adventures. The youth most vulnerable to online sex offenders have histories of sexual or physical abuse, family problems, and tendencies to take risks both on- and offline, the researchers say.
Phil Taylor

In Schools of the Future, Students Learn Best by Doing, Vigorously and Digitally | Conn... - 0 views

  • 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

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

Education Week Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook: Classroom Assessments for a... - 2 views

  • In the 21st century, we can no longer afford this disconnect. To help students become college- and career-ready, we need to teach them how to apply what they are learning in school to the practical and intellectual tasks in their everyday lives.
  • we need to make sure that our own classroom assessments are aligned with the skills our students will need in the future
  • Collaborate:
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  • Connect through writing
  • Persuade
  • Summarize and synthesize
  • Use critical thinking
  • Problem-solve
Phil Taylor

Factory Schools? A Debate | Redu: Rethink / Reform / Rebuild Education - 0 views

  • that factory-model schooling was not just ineffective but actually harmful to most students—a message which had been so radical and out of the mainstream twenty years ago, actually sounded very much like the messages of my other guests.
  • the Internet has become an unparalleled platform for learning, intitiative, participation, productivity, and creativity, almost all of this happens outside of formal educational institutions
  • technology as a liberating force
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  • eed of administrators, teachers, parents, students, and the community to solve problems together
  • High Tech High
  • learning cultures that drive and inspire achievement
  • educational technologists are usually on the front wave of computer trends, and many of them feel the Internet Revolution as a personal cognitive revolution—a transformation of their own learning and quality of life
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