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Phil Taylor

3 Next Steps to Nurture EdTech Growth | Evolving Educators - 0 views

  • EdTech should be implemented to connect people who would never have the opportunity to connect without technology. It should create learning environments where people learn from experts in the field, in the classroom, and in the laboratories.
Phil Taylor

Social Learning Academy - 0 views

  • The Social Learning Academy is intended for learning professionals  - in Workplace Learning and Education - who are new to social media and would like to find out more about the different social technologies and their application to learning.
Phil Taylor

The Case For Social Media in Schools - 0 views

  • Nobody would dispute that the risks of children using social media are real and not to be taken lightly. But there are also dangers offline. The teachers and parents who embrace social media say the best way to keep kids safe, online or offline, is to teach them.
Phil Taylor

'Internet Predator' Stereotypes Debunked in New Study - 0 views

  • most online sex offenders are adults who target teens and seduce victims into sexual relationships. They take time to develop the trust and confidence of victims, so that the youth see these relationships as romances or sexual adventures. The youth most vulnerable to online sex offenders have histories of sexual or physical abuse, family problems, and tendencies to take risks both on- and offline, the researchers say.
Phil Taylor

Tweeting to the people wins the race - Winnipeg Free Press - 0 views

  • come-from-behind win
  • how he pulled it off
  • posted on Facebook and Twitter where it was re-posted and tweeted by thousands of fans, reaching far more people than just traditional media watchers alone.
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  • he engaged thousands of people who haven't voted in a long time
  • to-do list
  • prepares
Phil Taylor

28 Tech Tools to Bring Out the Story in History - TheApple.com - 0 views

  • Today students have the ability to view and read historical documents first hand, ‘interact’ with historical characters, and observe the events of the past through the eyes of the children who lived it.    Thanks to technology, students can be truly engaged in the stories of history.  
Phil Taylor

Worlds End, Worlds Begin: Bang a Gong, Walter Ong: After Orality and Literacy - 0 views

  • But first, a caveat: there are exceptions to every generalization I am about to make.
  • irresolvable paradox that, without writing, we would not have Plato's staging of this discussion nor any record at all of Socrates' encounter with Phaedrus or of the Socratic method, nor indeed would there have been an Athens, as such, to remember.
  • Plato’s struggle with the relatively new technology of writing
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  • The move from a print-centric to a network-centric world? Is this globally significant? Does this revolution in human communication have a cultural dynamic?
  • In this universe, everything revolves around the publisher who controls access to the means of production.
  • Web 2.0, which allows all readers to become writers, is the end of publishing as we have known it since the invention of Gutenberg's printing press
  • Writers still have their dog-earred personal copies of books ready to hand, but now they also have all been issued keys to the globe's virtual Alexandria Library. 
  • the advent of Web 2.0 is the sign of that the apocalypse is at hand and that what lies ahead is a shattering of all the organizing structures of contemporary reality
Phil Taylor

An Idea Worth Spreading: The Future is Networks « emergent by design - 0 views

  • The future of Social Business is networks,’ ‘The future of education is networks,’ ‘The future of society is networks.’
  • but it feels like we’re nearing a point where something must change if we’re to move forward.
  • It’s literally NEVER been fully globally connected, until now.
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  • Every tool man has made, from the flint arrows to the wheel to civilization to systems of governance have ALL been in response to complexity.
  • I never really understood what it meant when people said, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”
Phil Taylor

Skype in the classroom (beta) | Skype Education - 1 views

  • Skype in the classroom is a free directory for teachers who want to use Skype to bring education to life in their classrooms. Join today to share resources, chat with teachers and even pair classes.
Phil Taylor

EDITing in the Dark - 0 views

  • iPhone, I can say that I am happy to be here and I don’ think I’ll be jumping ship for quite a while. Apple has focused on the experience, and for the vast majority of people who aren’t so geeky as to have custom setups for XYZ system, the iOS platform makes everyone feel empowered.
Phil Taylor

Apple iPad 2 family Review - PCWorld - 0 views

  • competitors will now face a new iteration of the iPad, one that's faster, smaller, and lighter than the model introduced a year ago--all while retaining the $499 entry price that has proven all but impossible for Apple's competitors to match.
  • company is offering 18 different versions of the iPad 2
  • original iPad came in six different variations
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  • A5 is a dual-core version of the 1GHz A4 chip that powers the iPhone 4 and the original iPad. The iPad 2 also has 512MB of RAM--twice that of the original iPad--and a 200MHz bus speed,
  • the key about "up to double" is that software must be optimized to take advantage of multiple processor cores
  • Graphics performance has become a major component in determining how fast a computing device feels. And Apple says that the graphics performance on the iPad 2 is as much as nine times faster
  • the moment I started using the iPad 2 with familiar apps from my original iPad, I could tell that the system was faster.
  • Then there's the question of whether you need to buy an iPad 2 with 3G at all. Many smartphones--including the iPhone 4--have a Wi-Fi-based hotspot feature that lets them share their Internet connections with other devices.
  • if you dream of using your iPad as a jumbo GPS navigation console, you'll absolutely need a 3G model.
  • support for HDTVs and HD video. A combination of iPad 2 hardware upgrades, a new adapter from Apple, and updates to the iOS share the credit, but the end result is great news for both entertainment and education.
  • A feature exclusive to the iPad 2 that will be hailed by educators, presenters, and anyone else who has ever wanted to show off their iPad's screen to a large crowd: video mirroring. When connected to the HDMI adapter, the iPad 2 will display a duplicate version of the contents of its screen on an external monitor. Want to demo an education app via a projector or HDTV for a classroom full of kids? The iPad 2 makes it possible.
  • iPad app ecosystem launched strong and has continued to grow, making it one of the iPad's biggest advantages over competing tablets.
  • GarageBand for iPad is an almost breathtaking achievement. At times it feels more responsive than GarageBand running on the late-model iMac on my desk at work
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