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Phil Taylor

Feeling Infowhelmed? - Informational Education Video - 0 views

  • Since education is often focused on memorization and reporting of information, some people wonder if having all this information will change the skills our children need to learn. It is a wake up call to teachers and educators that we need to teach not only in the present, but prepare students for the future.
Phil Taylor

Facebook has improved its privacy controls. Should we trust it not to screw up again? - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine - 0 views

  • he master switches also don't affect what third-party applications can do on your profile
  • but they don't affect what Facebook calls your "directory information," which includes rules about whether people can search for you, send you friend requests, or see your list of friends.
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    "The privacy page is dominated by three big master switches. The buttons are marked "Everyone," "Friends of Friends," and "Friends." Pressing one of those will decide most of your Facebook privacy settings in one go."
Phil Taylor

Educational Leadership:Learning in the Digital Age:The New WWW: Whatever, Whenever, Wherever - 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

Langwitches Blog » Students as Meaningful Contributors - 0 views

  • How often have we heard the moaning from our students and/or own children? Why do I have to learn this? I will never use it again. There is even (why would I be surprised?) a facebook group called “I bet 90% if the Stuff we learn in School, I will never use again” It has over 16,000 members…
Phil Taylor

Dean Shareski: I'm Not Crazy for Using Foursquare - 0 views

  • I've had my home address posted for anyone to see since as long as I've been living. It's called a telephone book and this technology lists the names, addresses and phone numbers of virtually every resident of every location. Scary.
Phil Taylor

Elizabeth Lesser: Take "the Other" to lunch | Video on TED.com - 0 views

  • There's an angry divisive tension in the air that threatens to make modern politics impossible. Elizabeth Lesser explores the two sides of human nature within us (call them "the mystic" and "the warrior”) that can be harnessed to elevate the way we treat each other.
Phil Taylor

Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff - TechLearning.com - 0 views

  • You and every other so-called multitasker are actually serial tasking. Rather than engaging in simultaneous tasks, you are in fact shifting from one task to another to another in rapid succession. For example, you switch from your phone conversation to a document on your computer screen to an email and back again in the belief that you are doing them simultaneously. But you’re not.
Phil Taylor

Educational Leadership:Teaching Screenagers:Screenagers: Making the Connections - 2 views

  • Screenagers: Making the Connections
  • Effectively teaching the digital generation, or screenagers as we call them in this issue of Educational Leadership, seems to involve two basics: embracing the tools that kids are immersed in and using these tools to engage students in core curriculum topics.
Phil Taylor

2011 Summer Rejuvenation Guide: Ten Teacher Tips For Getting The Most Out Of Your Summer | Edutopia - 0 views

  • It's time for you! Time to relax, reflect, and recharge. Whether your summer plans call for a cool adventure or professional development, you'll find resource-packed ideas here. Take the time to learn about digital storytelling or join a site for bookworms and, most importantly, enjoy your summer!
Phil Taylor

A Digital Diet: Drop (Calls, Texting, Web) and Give Me 28 (Days of Peace) | Epicenter | Wired.com - 0 views

  • “The Digital Diet: The 4-Step Plan to Break your Tech Addiction and Regain Balance in Your Life.
Phil Taylor

Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together | Video on TED.com - 0 views

  • Mae Jemison is an astronaut, a doctor, an art collector, a dancer ... Telling stories from her own education and from her time in space, she calls on educators to teach both the arts and sciences, both intuition and logic, as one -- to create bold thinker
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Phil Taylor

Metacognition - Dylan Wiliam - Video search - Journey To Excellence - 0 views

  • research evidence that actually training students in thinking about thinking - what scientists call metacognition - actually can work.
  • metacognition is, really, managing your own learning to make sure you’re actually using your brain in the most effective possible way
  • we are learning is that students have tremendous insights into their own learning from a very early age
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  • most successful teachers are those who have managed to find ways of harnessing students’ ways of insights into their own learning in order to help the teachers do a better job of teaching.
Phil Taylor

A Less Discussed Take on Cyberbullying: Building the Culture of Empathy | Tijana Milosevic - 0 views

  • here is something to be said about punishment vs. education. While public attention seems to be overwhelmingly focused on the former, especially in the aftermath of bullying cases that result in self-harm, the latter calls for critical reexamination of cultural values, a sustained effort at fostering a different pattern of social relations from early childhood.
Phil Taylor

Introduction to Blended Learning [Interview with Ben Rimes] - 0 views

  • key elements of a successful blended learning environment
  • Flexibility, Personal, Interactive, and Reinforcement of Good Pedagogy
  • In the future, all learning with the use of technology will likely simply be called just "learning," just as many common business practices are now intertwined with technology in inseparable ways
Phil Taylor

Personalized Learning: What It Really Is and Why It Really Matters - - 1 views

  • Moving content broadcast out of the classroom
  • urning homework time into contact time
  • Providing tutoring:
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  • pedagogical framework called Self-Regulated Learning
  • widespread commercialization of the adaptive learning techniques
  • Textbook publishers have found that their traditional business model is collapsing as more students find ways to avoid buying new textbooks
  • personalized learning is a family of educational practices that support good course designs, implementing those practices well is not as simple as buying a product
  • Yes, personalized learning is a lousy term, but it is attached to legitimate educational practices that have the potential to improve the lives of many students
Phil Taylor

Laptops And Phones In The Classroom: Yea, Nay Or A Third Way? : NPR Ed : NPR - 0 views

  • Stommel, who's been engaged in many debates over laptop bans on Twitter, calls the issue "weirdly divisive" but also, in the end, "a red herring." Instead of an "authoritarian approach," he suggests a conversation.
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