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Jennie Magiera: Beware the Transformation Trap: Making Meaningful Change - YouTube - 0 views

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    "Google Product Manager and edtech evangelist Zach Yeskel discusses the ins and outs of Google classroom and how its development and future is being shaped by educators and students."
Phil Taylor

Three Trends That Will Shape the Future of Curriculum | MindShift - 0 views

  • although schools may continue to fundamentally look and act as they have for more than one hundred years, the way individuals learn has already been forever changed. Instead of learning from others who have the credentials to ‘teach’ in this new networked world, we learn with others whom we seek (and who seek us) on our own and with whom we often share nothing more than a passion for knowing.”
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Kidscreen » Archive » Parents are screen addicts, too-but that's not the whol... - 0 views

  • Today’s teens live in both a real and virtual community, and the latter has infinite libraries and schools, radio stations, shopping malls, game arcades and much more. Their time in that community can’t be quantified, because it’s entirely integrated into their lives. It shapes and reflects their identities.
  • I believe that our interactions with technology have become so instinctual and embedded that we can’t accurately answer a “how many minutes” question.
Phil Taylor

Whether the digital era improves society is up to its users - that's us | Danah Boyd | ... - 4 views

  • a battle between those with utopian and dystopian viewpoints, over who can have a more extreme perspective on technology. So where's the middle ground?
  • With this complexity in mind, I would like to introduce a question that I have been struggling with for the past few years: what role does social media play in generating or spreading societal fear?
  • We fear the things – and people – that we do not understand far more than the things we do,
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  • The internet makes visible things that we want to see, but it also makes visible things that we don't want to see. It exposes us to people who are different. And this is the source of a great amount of fear.
  • Social media is here to stay. We need to get past the point in which we celebrate it or lament it in order to figure out how to live productively with it. We need people engaging critically with the dynamics that unfold as a result of a new structure of connecting people.
  • We all need to think critically about the information we create, consume and share. We all need to take responsibility for helping shape the world around us.
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Phil Taylor

Donald Clark Plan B: More pedagogic change in 10 years than last 1000 years - all drive... - 0 views

  • he internet is a pedagogic engine, changing and shaping the way we learn. In this sense, we’ve had more pedagogic change in the last 10 years than in the last 1000 years – all driven by innovation in technology.
  • 1. Asynchronous – the new default
  • 2. Links – free from tyranny of linear learning
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  • 3. Search and rescue
  • 4. Wikipedia and death of the expert
  • 5. Facebook and friends
  • 6. Twitter, texting and posting
  • 7. Youtube – less is more and ‘knowing how’ YouTube has changed the way we use video in learning for ever.
  • 8. Games Games have brought the proven sophistication of flight simulation into our homes and shown that failure (abhorred in traditional teaching) is the key to learning.
  • 9. Tools This is not often recognised but the word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tools have effected a considerable change on pedagogy.
  • 10. Open source
  • Conclusion These are ground breaking shifts in the way we learn. Unfortunately, they’re not matched by the way we teach. The growing gap between teaching practice and learning practice is acute and growing.
Phil Taylor

Apple's New iBooks Won't School College Bookstores Any Time Soon | Epicenter | Wired.com - 0 views

  • even if Apple doesn’t end up exerting nearly as much power over this market as they have in music, the blend of digital authoring tools, learning organization applications and multimedia books will likely still shape what will happen next.
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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

Education, Social Media, and Ethics: Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of Educati... - 0 views

  • an ongoing study that explores the ways in which young people’s use of social-networking sites, blogging, online games, and other forms of digital media are shaping their “ethical minds” in that realm.
Phil Taylor

Beyond Current Horizons : Reworking the web, reworking the world: how web 2.0 is changi... - 0 views

  • Web 2.0 is transforming our society. Online tools that support collaborative communities are redefining how firms do business, how retailers engage customers, how politicians energize voters, how journalists inform readers, how teachers educate students, how friends maintain relationships, and how individuals shape their own identity.
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