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Phil Taylor

Education: The Single Most Important Job | Edutopia - 1 views

  • What is more powerful in education than a student who is guided by an adult who truly cares -- someone who knows your name, who encourages you, and is committed to your success in life?
Joseph Magdalene

Swimming Instructor Resume Format - 0 views

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    Working as a Swimming Instructor can be a very exciting and rewarding career. Swimming Instructors can coach and teach swimming techniques to people who do this for fun, as well as to those who want to participate at swimming competitions.
Phil Taylor

Blackboard Learn - 0 views

  • Student Projects: Digital Projects and presentations created by individual students or groups. Learner-Centered: Teachers using technology in learner-centered activities. Diverse Learners: Technology meeting the needs of diverse learners.
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    Teachers who are doing great things in the classroom, but who else knows? Setting up a digital showcase can be a step towards systemic change, and increased achievement.
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

Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Resources, stories, and connections with those w... - 0 views

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    "Resources, stories, and connections with those who use social media in today's k-12 classrooms"
Phil Taylor

Education Week's Digital Directions: Whiteboards' Impact on Teaching Seen as Uneven - 0 views

  • “What makes it worthwhile are the interactive features and getting the kids at the board to connect with the material, because on the whiteboard you can present it in a way you cannot do with a chalkboard or overhead projector,” says Gilley, who began teaching a decade ago after a career in business. The ability to present multimedia material that is verbal, visual, auditory, and interactive, she says, is essential to draw today’s students into the subject matter.
  • teachers who don’t know how or refuse to use them
  • The teachers who were most effective using the whiteboards displayed many of the characteristics of good teaching in general: They paced the lesson appropriately and built on what students already knew; they used multiple media, such as text, pictures, and graphics, for delivering information; they gave students opportunities to participate; and they focused mainly on the content, not the technology.
Phil Taylor

News: The Invisible Computer Lab - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

  • For those who use it, Google Docs has all but cured the anxiety of losing unfinished papers to malfunctioning hardware.
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    "For those who use it, Google Docs has all but cured the anxiety of losing unfinished papers to malfunctioning hardware. "
Phil Taylor

Building a professional learning network on Twitter « My Island View - 0 views

  • Building a professional Learning Network consisting of quality educators, who responsibly share quality information and sources, takes time and requires a plan. It is my belief that the people you follow are far more important than those who follow you.
  • How do you find those quality educators to follow in order to add value to your PLN?
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