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Phil Taylor

Asking "why" you want iPads is a critical question... - iPads in Education - 0 views

  • Asking "why" and looking outside the walls of our schools may lead us to different visions and new directions.
  • Are we preparing students for 20th century testing or preparing them for life? Ask "why".
Phil Taylor

Do iPads Have the Capacity to Change Education? - iPads in Education - 0 views

  • Professional development becomes far more valuable when it searches beyond the simple nuts and bolts of technical use and instead encourages teachers to disrupt the traditional flow of education - to dabble, experiment and re-imagine how that technology can be used to sculpt new educational horizons.
Phil Taylor

Turning Students Into Teachers - iPads in Education - 1 views

  • "The best way to learn anything is to teach it to someone else
  • Students of all ages can create tutorials.
Phil Taylor

BBC News - Does job success depend on data rather than your CV? - 0 views

  • "The days of keeping your personal and professional profiles separate are over," warns Experis's Geoff Smith.
Phil Taylor

Facebook has improved its privacy controls. Should we trust it not to screw up again? -... - 0 views

  • he master switches also don't affect what third-party applications can do on your profile
  • but they don't affect what Facebook calls your "directory information," which includes rules about whether people can search for you, send you friend requests, or see your list of friends.
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    "The privacy page is dominated by three big master switches. The buttons are marked "Everyone," "Friends of Friends," and "Friends." Pressing one of those will decide most of your Facebook privacy settings in one go."
Phil Taylor

Kids pack in nearly 11 hours of media use daily | Safe and Secure - CNET News - 0 views

  • Just as kids used to hang out in parks, bowling alleys, and malls, they are now hanging out online. Instead of talking, they're often texting or interacting via their social-networking profiles. While these activities can be time-wasting, they can also be productive, helping kids define their identities, reinforce offline social relationships and express themselves in a variety of ways.
Phil Taylor

6 Top Tech Trends on the Horizon for Higher Education - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of... - 0 views

  • notes that mobile devices have been listed before, but it says that resistance by many schools continues to slow the full integration of mobile devices into higher education.
  • Learning analytics
  • Challenges to adoption include incorporating information coming from a variety of sources and in different formats and concerns about privacy and profiling.
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  • Augmented reality, the layering of virtual information over actual locations, such as an interactive, mobile-based museum map, is another up-and-coming trend. It is two to three years away from adoption in education.
Phil Taylor

Using Images as a Powerful Gateway To Learning - iPads in Education - 0 views

  • Most of us grew up in an age where knowledge and information were primarily conveyed in textual format. Think of the encyclopedias we used. Photos were used but largely as an enhancement to articles that were text-based. Worse, the high cost of full color printing meant that the images that were used were usually in black and white.
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