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Phil Taylor

Really? It's My Job To Teach Technology? | The Thinking Stick - 2 views

  • We are not teaching technology, we are teaching skills that every student needs to have and technology happens to be a part of that
  • first of all this is exaclty why the NETs for Students does not list software
Phil Taylor

Code Literacy: A 21st-Century Requirement | Edutopia - 0 views

  • To build my own code literacy, I decided to take free classes through the online website Codecademy.com (3),
Phil Taylor

Free Technology for Teachers: A Map of Nearly 100,000 Historic Places - 0 views

  • Historic Places offers a Google Map of nearly 100,000 historic places in North America
Phil Taylor

Lydia Dobyns: A '21st Century' Education Is SO Last Century - 0 views

  • I like "Deeper Learning" as a way to convey both the acquisition of knowledge and the transference/application of knowledge along with developing skills employers find valuable -- collaboration, communications and critical thinking.
  • Today's educators need to be connected -- that means they need to embrace social media along with utilizing online resources -- designing ways to integrate smart phones and iPads, along with laptops.
  • ...the choices we make about how to use time in school are often the enemy of quality or value. Our patterns in leading classrooms are so ingrained that we do not even realize when we are making poor choices."
Phil Taylor

- From the Principal's Office: Autonomy Breeds Change - 1 views

  • every New Milford High School teacher two to three, forty eight minute periods a week, depending on the semester, to engage in growth opportunities of personal interest.  The only catch was that each staff member had to create and present a learning portfolio at his/ her end of year evaluation conference.  
Phil Taylor

The Bigger You Are, The More You Should Connect - 0 views

  • As I think about how big schools and districts can be, we have to less “automation” and more “personalization”.  Technology can either dehumanize or humanize; it depends how we use it.  The “social” is really the most important part of “social media” and we need to take advantage to not only share what we are learning, but to build connections in new ways.
Phil Taylor

Learning strategies: a synthesis and conceptual model : npj Science of Learning - 0 views

  • In the past 30 years, however, the emphasis in many western systems of education has been more on enhancing academic achievement—in domains such as reading, mathematics, and science—as the primary purpose of schooling.
  • >400 learning strategies: that is, those processes which learners use to enhance their own learning.
  • A model of learning
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  • the model proposes that when students are made aware of the nature of success for the task, they are more likely to be more involved in investing in the strategies to attain this target.
Phil Taylor

Google's 80/20 Principle Adopted at New Jersey School - 1 views

  • This simple policy change enables what's been called the 80/20 principle, a theory practiced by Google that employees who spend 20 percent of their time on company-related projects that interest them will work better.
Phil Taylor

Dangerously Irrelevant - 1 views

  • Your policies should target underlying substantive behaviors, not the mediums in which those behaviors occur.
Phil Taylor

The iPad brings a rethink of how we browse the Internet | iGo With My iPad - 1 views

  • Reading online content later when offline is not something new, but a new free app for the iPad gets us rethinking our daily Internet browsing.
  • apps is Readability. The company provides a method to show content of Web site posts on the iPad without all of the extra distractions you have to sort through when viewing via a Web Browser.
Phil Taylor

What Will Education Look Like in 2020? | EdTech Magazine - 2 views

  • the idea that technology will save education (as opposed to the idea that relevance will).
  • The reason that so many schools are struggling with the change technology represents is because they haven’t adjusted to this shift, to the emergence of participatory, user-driven technologies and social media as viable communicative and collaborative tools.
Phil Taylor

From teaching to learning… « What Ed Said - 2 views

  • We’re working on shifting the focus from teaching to learning at my school. We try to ensure decisions are based on our learning principles, be they about teaching, classrooms, programs or personnel.
Phil Taylor

The Kid Should See This. - 0 views

  • Off the grid-for-little-kids videos and other smart stuff collected by Rion Nakaya and her three year old co-curator.
Phil Taylor

- What's Your Favorite Transformative Tool of 2011? - 3 views

  • What's Your Favorite Transformative Tool of 2011? Dec 22 Written by: 12/22/2011 2:02 AM  As we near the end of 2011, I thought I would invite you to add to this post by linking and reflecting on the tools that have most transformed your classrooms this year.
Phil Taylor

IBM released their 5 in 5 Technology Report for the next 5 Years | It's a Gadget - 0 views

  • predictions were delivered in IBM’s annual “5 in 5” report which describes five different technologies that, according to IBM, have the potential to change our lives
  • First off is mind reading technology
  • Next up is the extinction of passwords
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  • Ever wanted a home that is powered by kinetic energy?
  • Fourth on IBM’s list was mobile devices. Yes they are already here, but
  • Last on the list comes the annihilation of junk mail.
Phil Taylor

8 Observations on flipping the classroom - Articles - Educational Technology - ICT in Education - 0 views

  • In the best classrooms there is a good balance of different activities, including “lecturing”,and that kind of variety lends a sense of pace to the lesson, and helps to make it a good and enjoyable learning experience for the students.
Phil Taylor

5 Critical Mistakes Schools Make With iPads (And How To Correct Them) - 0 views

  • Focusing on iPad-versus.-laptop comparisons stifles the ability to see how the iPad facilitates student-centered learning. iPads are devices meant to compliment computers, not replace them.
Phil Taylor

Event Lobby (EVENT: 644781) - 0 views

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    Video recordings from this summer's Edmodocon
Phil Taylor

A Two-Gear Construct for Envisioning Blended Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

  • CFY, conducted a pilot in 2011-12 that worked with teachers on incorporating blended learning into their classrooms. Our goal was not technological but pedagogical.
  • Envision these cycles as gears that are interlocked and running as one to drive student achievement and student ownership of learning. Neither of these cycles requires technology, but both are greatly enhanced by using technology.
  • Shifting Prominence of Each Gear from K-12
Phil Taylor

10 useful tools for assessment with tech | Ditch That Textbook - 0 views

  • Flubaroo – This add-on to use with Google Forms and Google Sheets will auto-grade simple formative assessments.
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