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How Dropping Screen Time Rules Can Fuel Extraordinary Learning - Connected Parenting - ... - 0 views

  • By focusing on quality over quantity, families can move away from fear, maintain a healthy balance, and seek out extraordinary learning.
Phil Taylor

Ideas - The Learner's Way - 0 views

  • For our students how we locate time sends important messages about what constitutes important learning
  • For students the time they are given to think and reflect on their learning is critical to the quality of their learning
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How to Choose the Right Tablet for Your School - 0 views

  • "When you talk about the choice between Android and iOS, that's a big decision. But the bigger decision is, 'Are we going to change our whole attitude to how we're delivering the lessons to the students?'"
  • "If you have a really slow wireless connection, and you're going to have to solely rely on apps, the amount of educational apps available for the iPad far outnumber what's available for Android and the quality of them," Starr said. But if you have a fast connection and want to use online content at no cost, remember that the majority of that content is based on Flash
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.
Phil Taylor

Click a Class | PBLU.org | Making Projects Click - 1 views

  • These classes build your skills for implementing high-quality projects. You tailor the learning experience to your needs and interests. In each class, you build a foundation.
Phil Taylor

Are children's screen time guidelines out of touch? | CTV News - 0 views

  • “(Screens) are here to stay so let’s think about the quality of what we’re consuming as well as the quantity,
Phil Taylor

Educational Leadership:Giving Students Meaningful Work:Seven Essentials for Project-Bas... - 0 views

  • launching a project with an "entry event" that engages interest and initiates questioning
  • Students created a driving question
  • product of students' choice created by teams
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  • each team regularly paused to review how well they were collaborating and communicating, using rubrics they had developed with the teacher's guidance
  • generated a list of more detailed questions
  • more meaningful if they conduct real inquiry
  • student teams critiqued one another's work
  • emphasizes that creating high-quality products and performances
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      High Tech High uses this as a great motivational tool
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
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  • 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
Phil Taylor

Creative Commons High Resolution Images on Flickr | Teacher Reboot Camp - 0 views

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    Great resource for high quality images for presentations
Phil Taylor

For the Love of Learning: Homeworkaholism - 0 views

  • This really shouldn't surprise us. As teachers, how often do we say it is the quantity of your learning that matters more than the quality? I couldn't imagine saying this.
Phil Taylor

Ted Curran.net » Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network Part II: Showing Wh... - 0 views

  • This is why many educators are recommending students compile ePortfolios, a culmination of their best work over the course of their educational careers. With an ePortfolio, people can actually look at the very best work you have produced and they can see the quality of thinking for themselves.
Phil Taylor

How Do You Find Good Educational Apps? | MindShift - 0 views

  • Readers, how do you find quality educational apps? What changes would you make to the app stores to give consumers better information, particularly when it comes to educational apps?
Phil Taylor

The University of Wherever - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Two recent events at Stanford University suggest that the day is growing nearer when quality higher education confronts the technological disruptions that have already upended the music and book industries, humbled enterprises from Kodak to the Postal Service (not to mention the newspaper business), and helped destabilize despots across the Middle East.
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