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Phil Taylor

From Analog to Digital: Why and How to Teach Students to Write for an Online Audience |... - 0 views

  • When was the last time you wrote an essay? When was the last time you read one other than for grading?
  • We need to reframe our conversation about writing from one based on polarities of analog versus digital to one about purpose, passion and relevance.
  • Social media: The haiku of digital writing
Phil Taylor

How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas? | Edutopia - 1 views

  • We know students do plenty of listening in our classes, but what about the other three communication skills they should be engaging in and practicing daily?
  • The ultimate goal of literacy instruction is to build a student's comprehension, writing skills, and overall skills in communication.
  • Students need to be writing every day, in every classroom
Phil Taylor

Integrating Media and Technology into Classroom Practices - The Reading & Writing Project - 0 views

  • The real promise of the new technology is that it can bridge the distance between teacher and students, between students and texts, in truly innovative ways. But it takes time and understanding of the new applications and devices to make good on this promise.
Phil Taylor

Digital literacy 'as important as reading and writing' - Telegraph - 0 views

  • ‘educate’ kids on their social behaviour – children don’t always think about the audience they are projecting to.”
Phil Taylor

Are iPads, Smartphones, and the Mobile Web Rewiring the Way We Think?| The Committed Sa... - 0 views

  • e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says.
  • "It's indisputable that the Internet has made us smarter.... The range of things you can explore in a day is just fantastic compared to 20 years ago," says David Weinberger, senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. "There's no question that we feel the Internet has made us better researchers, better thinkers, better writers."
  • Books "are not the shape of knowledge," he says. "They're a limitation on knowledge." The idea of a single author presenting her ideas "was born of the limitations of paper publishing. It's not necessarily the only way or the best way to think and to write."
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  • Wolf makes sure she stays off-line at specific times. "For a half hour before bedtime and a half hour in the morning I do nothing digital," she says.
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    "e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says."
Phil Taylor

It's vital we teach social networking skills in school - Comment - Voices - The Indepen... - 0 views

  • As with learning to read, swim or play good football children will be much more effective social networkers with support, guidance and help than without
  • We need to educate young people to understand that it is wrong to write anything on a social networking site which you wouldn’t say to someone’s face
  • Second, Twitter and Facebook are, as has been well publicised, a groomer’s dream.
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  • Third, for goodness sake let’s capitalise on social networking and make it a force for the good in education
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