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Asking "why" you want iPads is a critical question... - iPads in Education - 0 views

  • Asking "why" and looking outside the walls of our schools may lead us to different visions and new directions.
  • Are we preparing students for 20th century testing or preparing them for life? Ask "why".
Phil Taylor

Social Media: Why This Matters To Everyone In Education - 0 views

  • Back in 1999, when there were still a few people muttering that the Internet was “just a fad”, the science fiction writer and visionary Douglas Adams wrote an article expressing amusement at the way the mainstream media considered the Internet something odd, and slightly sinister: …you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this: 1) Everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) Anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3) Anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really. (Adams, 1999)
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All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed - Esther Entin - The At... - 0 views

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Phil Taylor

Why banning technology is not the answer - The Learner's Way - 1 views

  • Connected devices should inject new opportunities, knowledge, data, influencers and thinking into our debates and add value not distraction.
  • The question of student distractibility is worth further exploration.
  • Technology does not need to be a part of every aspect of our lives. We need to learn when it is the best tool, when it plays a part on the sidelines and when it is best left out of the equation.
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Why Do we Learn AT School? « Technically Teaching - 0 views

  • lecture, it is a quick, easy, efficient, and almost fool-proof way to get information directly from you to your students
  • isn't really any deep interaction
  • referred to as the "flipped classroom". I would outsource the delivery of lecture to video
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  • The biggest is to spend some time teaching students how to take notes, and then consistently check in with students to make sure they are keeping up their notebooks
Chiki Smith

TheHandbookofCheating Taught Me a Lot - 2 views

TheHandbookofCheating is a very helpful book for me. It gave me ideas how to face cheating partners. This book even taught me how to empathize with them than to lash out right away without hearing ...

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Phil Taylor

Why It's Time To Focus On Skills (Not Just Cool Tools) - Edudemic - 0 views

  • Any one of these web tools that a freshman in high school learns today will most likely not exist or will be replaced by something better in 8-10 years when that freshman graduates from college. However, if teachers change their approach to focus on transferable technology skills (i.e. the NETS-S) it will make the integration of technology more meaningful and prepare our students with skills they can take with them in the future.
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The Pervasiveness of Technology: Why We Have To Face Up {Technology in Education, 21st ... - 0 views

  • CBC documentary
  • it is essential that there is a purpose, and pedagogic purpose to the activities we do with technology
  • f we stand a chance of having students ‘unplug’ themselves willingly and engage in ‘deeper thought’ more often than ‘superficial thought’ in their leisure or work, they must understand why deeper thought is more important, and why it is better to put it before the ‘rush’ and instant gratification of technology.
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  • they are given direction and purposeful tasks to complete with the technology, and it is used for tasks that generally cannot be achieved through other means.
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      The reason when to use technology.
  • tech for learning
Phil Taylor

Why most teachers don't know what they don't know. « My Island View - 1 views

  • Technology is the driving force behind most of the education innovation. It is impacting not only what we can do as educators, but it is also changing how we approach learning. These innovations may have not all reached the education journals yet, but they have been presented and are being discussed digitally and at great length in social media.
  • Information from technology may be easily accessed, but it is not yet a passive exercise. It requires effort and an ability to learn and adapt. These are skills that all educators have, but many may not always be willing to use. The status quo has not required educators to use these skills in a long time. Using these skills requires effort and leaving a long-standing zone of comfort in order to learn and use new methods of information retrieval.
  • They need to be the life-long learners that they want their students to be.
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  • In order for teachers to better guide themselves in their learning, they need to know what it is that they need to know. They need relevant questions about relevant changes. Being connected to other educators, who are practicing these changes already, is a great first step.
Phil Taylor

Shift to the Future: Why BYOT? - 0 views

  • I liken BYOT to BYOP (bring your own pencil).  Imagine if students had to share pencils provided by their school or only had a couple of 40 minute periods per week where they were allowed to use pencils.
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From Analog to Digital: Why and How to Teach Students to Write for an Online Audience |... - 0 views

  • When was the last time you wrote an essay? When was the last time you read one other than for grading?
  • We need to reframe our conversation about writing from one based on polarities of analog versus digital to one about purpose, passion and relevance.
  • Social media: The haiku of digital writing
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Anne Murphy Paul: Why Floundering Makes Learning Better | TIME Ideas | TIME.com - 0 views

  • Call it the “learning paradox”: the more you struggle and even fail while you’re trying to master new information, the better you’re likely to recall and apply that information later.
  • second group was directed to solve the same problems by collaborating with one another, absent any prompts from their instructor.
  • the second group “significantly outperformed” the first.
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    Call it the "learning paradox": the more you struggle and even fail while you're trying to master new information, the better you're likely to recall and apply that information later.
Phil Taylor

Stagnant Future, Stagnant Tests: Pointed Response to NY Times "Grading the Digital Scho... - 1 views

  • they are understanding a complex text and making sense of it within the context of their own lives.   No parent wants more, no teacher does, than for kids to be able to not just "read" Shakespeare but to understand why his work still speaks urgently to the present, why it is worth taking the time to read all that odd English from another time
  • We are not responsible as educators unless we are teaching not just with technology but through it, about it, because of it.   We need to make kids understand its power, its potential, its dangers, its use.  That isn't just an investment worth making but one that it would be irresponsible to avoid.
Phil Taylor

Educational Leadership:Learning in the Digital Age:The New WWW: Whatever, Whenever, Whe... - 0 views

  • counteract the New WWW's potentially harmful impact on youth, educators must use technology to create learning experiences that are real, rich, and relevant.
  • Next will come 4G, in which data rates are expected to be 100 times faster than those in this first 3G wave. As the delivery platform of broadband content and functionality shifts from computer to personal device, we will be surrounded by a multimedia aura that accompanies us wherever we go
  • The plan is that you'll use your phone to spend money everywhere, all the time.
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  • What choices do we expect them to make if their pockets are loaded with cash and the shelves bulge with penny candy—especially when there's no parent in sight? The choice won't be between yes and no, but between what kind? and what next? Maybe someone needs to watch over this New WWW.
  • Children believe that getting whatever they want will make them happy. As adults, we know otherwise.
  • engaging in personally meaningful actions, and performing service to something larger than themselves.
  • we must also acknowledge that schools have too much of both. But the joy of learning has neither! One of the most powerful definitions of teaching I know comes from Maria Harris: “Teaching is the creation of a situation in which subjects, human subjects, are handed over to themselves”
  • We can “hand students over to themselves.” We can engage them in the joys of learning, of making meaning, of being part of something larger than themselves, of testing themselves against authentic challenges. We can shift them from passivity and consumption to action and creativity. And believe it or not, the New WWW can help us.
  • New WWW shifts learning power to the students themselves.
  • students can demonstrate their learning in a persuasive essay, a sardonic blog, a moving short film, a robust wiki entry, or a humorous podcast, why would we demand deadening conformity?
  • I call this kind of Web site a ClassAct Portal: Class because the site involves a whole class of students; Act because it supports authentic, active learning; ClassAct because it provides a real-world forum for students to exercise their best efforts; and Portal because the site serves as a window to resources, information, activities, and communities.
Phil Taylor

Why kids hate school - subject by subject - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 4 views

  • Why kids hate school — subject by subject
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Phil Taylor

Gazette » Changing Society: Why Teachers Need to Embrace Technology - 0 views

  • If technology is an active participant in daily routine, then “why not in the classroom?”
  • Digital learning is here and it will continue.
  • Moodle
Phil Taylor

Personalize Learning: Stages of Personalized Learning Environments - 0 views

  • Some questions to consider before embarking on your journey to personalize learning: Why do you want to personalize learning for your learners? What problems or needs have you identified in your school, organization and/or community? What data can you show that demonstrates the need to personalize learning? What does teaching and learning look like now? What are stakeholders beliefs about learning and change? Why is it critical for your organization and/or community to change now? What challenges or obstacles do you envision as you move to personalizing learning? What do you envision for your personalized learning environment?
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

Actually, teachers DON'T have to learn technology - Redefining my role: Teacher as student - 2 views

  • t “most teachers” just don’t put in the effort to incorporate technology into their instruction. I would have to agree, but I think it’s important to ask, “Why should they?”
  • Or do they?… Are their colleagues telling them they have to? Are their administrators telling them they have to? Are the parents telling them they have to? If not, then they don’t have to learn it.
  • I believe it is our responsibility as educators to integrate technology into instruction as much as we are able to
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