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The Best Way to Store Stuff in the Cloud - 1 views

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Cloud storage

shared by Phil Taylor on 10 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • We tested eleven of the most popular cloud storage services out there, looked at their price-per-gigabyte, and considered their various features and functionality.
  • How sweet it is. SugarSync is essentially everything we wanted.
  • Budget Winner: Google
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  • Your Mom's Winner: Dropbox
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Will · "We Prepare Children to Learn How to Learn" - 1 views

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education Finland willrichardson reform

shared by Phil Taylor on 08 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • “We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test,” said Pasi Sahlberg, a former math and physics teacher who is now in Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture.
  • seeing this “human aspect” of education?
Phil Taylor

The Elephant in the Room of 21st Century Learning - The Futures of School Reform - Educ... - 1 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 15 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • 14th century France inhabited a relatively simple personal world with maybe three sides: farm, village, and the church. Today ordinary individuals construct amazingly complex personal worlds with many facets. The game has truly changed.
  • "elephant in the room," a big conspicuous but largely undiscussed problem: What should we do with tired content?
  • If only we could shrink some topics, we could expand others that offer much more.
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  • the elephant fights back! The gridlock of textbooks, testing, college admissions standards, and more makes forthrightly shelving traditional topics politically and practically perilous.
Phil Taylor

EDUCATION: Today's mobile devices are tomorrow's textbooks | Luke Test Subsection - The... - 1 views

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mobile education textbooks Technology

shared by Phil Taylor on 02 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Today, more teachers see the devices not as distractions but as tools to help students learn. And experts say the future of education may revolve around these hand-held instruments.
Phil Taylor

Blending the Best: Better Learning for More Kids | RealClearEducation - 0 views

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learning kids instructional design blended blended learning

shared by Phil Taylor on 18 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • This experience can be—must be—much more than putting some lectures, worksheets, links or tests online. Blended learning opens up unlimited resources, makes daily student collaboration more practical and lets teachers respond to students instantly from across town.
  • Embrace a culture of change and instability, and adapt
  • Get students active in learning:
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  • A blended class can teach students to think critically and creatively, foster skepticism, and guide them to be adaptable, independent learners.
Phil Taylor

Experts on the Future of Work, Jobs Training and Skills | Pew Research Center - 0 views

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pew 2017 skills education

shared by Phil Taylor on 09 May 17 - No Cached
  • Many of them say that current K-12 or K-16 education programs are incapable of making adjustments within the next decade to serve the shifting needs of future jobs markets.
  • “The most important skill is a meta-skill: the ability to adapt to changes. This ability to adapt is what distinguished Homo sapiens from other species through natural selection.
  • The nature of this change may require the world to shift to a ‘Post Economic Growth’ model to avoid societal dislocation and disruption.”
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  • “The degree and perhaps the prestige of the institution gets you the first interview, but it is your ability to do good work that keeps the job and move[s] you to the next level.
  • Most actual assessment (not to be confused with multiple-choice tests) in school or professional programs is based on expert recognition.
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