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Phil Taylor

One-to-One or BYOD? Districts Explain Thinking Behind Student Computing Initiatives | E... - 0 views

  • the district shelved the idea when it became apparent that students preferred using their personal mobile devices and that the cost of buying and ­refreshing ­notebooks every three to four years would be ­prohibitive
  • surveyed the 155 eighth-graders ­participating in the pilot, they learned something ­interesting: Although students loved the idea of having their own computer to do their homework, 52 percent of them were using their personal computers rather than those issued by the school
  • IT department beefed up the wireless network in its two middle schools and the high school and standardized on a set of cloud-based applications
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  • Google Apps' ­productivity and collaboration tools, and connect to the Moodle course management system, where they can access ­reading materials and other course ­content and participate in discussion forums and live chats.
  • To implement BYOD successfully, Gartner Research Director Bill Rust says every school must do the following:
  • Schools that are embracing BYOD are working to ­incorporate technology into their curriculum
  • Professional development also is helping educators learn new teaching techniques that are technology-centric
  • offers five blended high school courses in English and health education
  • Early BYOD Adopters Share Lessons Learned
  • Professional development is important. Hanover's educational technology staff holds a training session every Tuesday, Fry says. The district also built a wiki to educate teachers about using technology in the classroom.
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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

Social Networking Policy Holds School District Staff to 'Higher Standard' - Lacey, NJ P... - 0 views

  • School district employees should "exercise care and good judgement" by adhering to the following guidelines in the policy. School staff members:
Phil Taylor

10 ways school has changed… « What Ed Said - 1 views

  • Not every point is uniformly evident across the school irrespective of teacher, class and time (yet), but most are well on the way. Learning in our school has changed enormously… and is constantly changing. Is yours?
Phil Taylor

10 BYOD Classroom Experiments (and What We've Learned From Them So Far) - Online Univer... - 0 views

  • 10 BYOD Classroom Experiments (and What We’ve Learned From Them So Far)
  • What can Holy Trinity teach us? That when it comes to BYOD, it pays not to be overly strict with how the devices can be used in the class, as greater freedom allows teachers to work with students to develop the best uses for technology for their subject matter and teaching style.
  • BYOD requires much more than just changing tech policies and can sometimes mean overhauling the curriculum and spending money training teachers, though it does help students create a more personal and memorable learning experience.
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  • At Mankato, the BYOD program relies heavily on Google Docs and other tools that aren’t platform specific and that serve information to any Internet-accessible device, which points to one of the biggest problems with BYOD: managing a variety of different tech platforms
  • Students can only use devices during times that are approved by teachers and cannot use class time to troubleshoot tech problems.
  • The school also built a virtual desktop system which can be accessed through any device students or teachers bring into school
  • stop trying to battle cell phone use at school and instead decided to integrate the phones into lesson plans for eighth-graders and high school students.
  • BYOD at KISD demonstrates that while technology can be a distraction, it can also be an amazing learning tool that can not only interest students but also help them to become higher achievers.
  • school district encourages students to take the lead, inviting them to make videos that demonstrate acceptable and unacceptable use of personal phones and computers.
Phil Taylor

MacBook, Chromebook, iPads: Why Schools Should Think Beyond Platforms | MindShift - 0 views

  • As needs change over time, addressing them might mean switching devices (remaking the choice). As schools progress in their technology implementation, they may find that their needs have changed, and should not hesitate to change devices as their understanding of their students’ needs develops. This seasonal view of devices (rather than “device as school identity”) is essential to helping schools move forward, meet their current students’ needs, and keep the curriculum relevant and timely for the future. A focus on pedagogy and key technology skills will transfer from one device to another, making the shift easier; a focus on being a device expert, or mastering device specific mechanics, will not. Students will graduate into a world that will demand technological fluency, the ability to move and process information across various platforms and devices.
Phil Taylor

7 building blocks for the future of schools | @mcleod - 0 views

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    "7 building blocks for the future of schools"
Phil Taylor

How An LMS and BYOD Changed A School - 0 views

  • blended learning and is ideally managed as teacher-led and student-centred.
  • During three years at The Southport School in Queensland, Australia, my colleagues and I managed to produce significant changes in classroom practice via the use of Moodle and the staged introduction of mobile devices to the classroom.
  • The survey further indicated that most students had 2 or more devices with them in school.
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    "blended learning and is ideally managed as teacher-led and student-centred."
Phil Taylor

Exploring the impact of Apple's iPad on schools & schooling. - 0 views

  • The schools that “get it” will be the ones that stay ahead of the tech curve. “As educators, we really need to stay on top of this stuff,” said Rios, “instead of constantly playing catch up.”
  • “Schools are smartening up and letting students use their tech tools in innovative ways,”
  • nothing really matters if we introduce technology without changing the process of learning and the way teachers teach.
Phil Taylor

In Digital Age, Schools That Succeed are Schools That Connect | MindShift - 0 views

  • The trickiest of the cracks to get our heads around is the “connected divide,” separating those who are proficient in collaborative, creative and connected social networks and those who are not. It is growing exponentially wider on a daily basis.
Phil Taylor

SpeEdChange: Schools that matter - 0 views

  • People who've heard me talk about middle schools have probably heard me say something like, "this age group has a million legitimate things to worry about every day, and none of them are in our curriculum."
Phil Taylor

How do you change school culture? « What Ed Said - 0 views

  • change school culture?
  • our school culture has been articulating our shared beliefs about learning
Phil Taylor

An education prof. goes back to high school, finds technology is no longer a tool but a... - 0 views

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    "in the lives of my high school students digital technology was an extension of themselves"
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Wikipedia for Schools : Subject Index : - 0 views

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    "Schools Wikipedia has been organised by subject along the lines of subjects in the UK curriculum"
Phil Taylor

Technology in Schools: Defining the Terms | Edutopia - 1 views

  • What are the fundamental, basic, non-negotiable principles upon which to base technology in schools? To name a few possibilities:
  • What are ways that you have had the conversation about technology in your school? And what definition of technology are you using?
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    "When technology arises in discussion among educators and parents, the conversation often turns to an issue of human behavior"
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