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Phil Taylor

Our Push for 'Passion,' and Why It Harms Kids - The New York Times - 0 views

  • For most children, childhood isn’t about passion, but rather about exploration.
Phil Taylor

The right conditions for creativity - The Learner's Way - 0 views

  • Our students need to be given permission to be creative, to experiment and play with ideas.
  • linked to permission is acceptance of failure
  • A third condition for creativity is time and it is this that is perhaps most difficult for schools to provide
Phil Taylor

Which Generation is Most Distracted by Their Phones? - 0 views

  • Adults are as addicted—if not more addicted—to technology as teenagers.  
  • adults’ smartphone addiction telepressure: “the combination of a strong urge to be responsive to people at work through message-based [information and communications technologies and] a preoccupation with quick response times.”
  • It’s worth considering: When we criticize teens who are glued to their screens, are we offering wise advice? Or are we projecting our own mixed feelings onto them?
Phil Taylor

Educational Leadership:Technology-Rich Learning:Flip Your Students' Learning - 0 views

  • Terms like flipped lessons, flipped learning, or flipped thinking more clearly convey what "flipping" actually means. A teacher must carefully consider which lessons lend themselves to time-shifting direct instruction out of class—and which do not. A selective use of video where appropriate will provide students with a better learning experience than a blanket use of video when video is not the right tool.
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    March 21, 2013 at 08:19AM Educational Leadership:Technology-Rich Learning:Flip Your Students' Learning http://bit.ly/15vcDCZ
Phil Taylor

Adaptive learning software is replacing textbooks and upending American education. Should we welcome it? - 0 views

  • “Adaptive technologies presume that knowledge can be modularized and sequenced,” says Watters, the education writer. “This isn’t about the construction of knowledge. It’s still hierarchical, top-down, goal-driven.”
  • e latest techno-fad, destined to distract administrators and upset curricula for a few years until the next one comes along. But there are two reasons why adaptive learning might prove more durable than that. The first is that the textbook companies have invested in it so heavily that there may be no going back. The second: It might, in at least some settings, really work.
  • “I like to think of analogies to other places where science and technology have had an impact, like transportation. We went from walking to horse-drawn carriages to Model Ts, and now we have jet planes. So far in educational technology, we’re in the Model T stage.”
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  • “Unlike some younger tech startups, we don’t think the goal is to replace the teacher,” says Laster, the company’s chief digital officer. “We think education is inherently social, and that students need to learn from well-trained and well-versed teachers. But we also know that that time together, shoulder-to-shoulder, is more and more costly, and more and more precious.”
Phil Taylor

Homework vs. No Homework Is the Wrong Question | Edutopia - 1 views

  • The policy should be, "No time-wasting, rote, repetitive tasks will be assigned that lack clear instructional or learning purposes."
  • reflect a considered school policy and not simply be up to each individual teacher to carry out according to his or own theory of student learning
Phil Taylor

Three Ways Parents Can Make Digital Media a Positive for Young Kids | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views

  • Kids are living in the same world we do, the world where grown-ups check their phones 50 times a day,
Phil Taylor

We are not addicted to smartphones, we are addicted to social interaction - 0 views

  • Healthy urges can become unhealthy addictions
  • Turning off push notifications and setting up appropriate times to check your phone can go a long way to regain control over smartphone
  • workplace policies "that prohibit evening and weekend emails" are also important
Phil Taylor

The future of: "Sit down, Shut up, and Memorize This…" - Teacher Tech - 0 views

  • I challenge you to think about WHAT we learn. On whose terms? In what areas? When was the curriculum we are using formed? Educators need to start acknowledging that students need a time, place, and resources to learn what is relevant to them as well.
Phil Taylor

Panicked about Kids' Addiction to Tech? - NewCo Shift - 0 views

  • children learn values and norms by watching their parents and other caregivers.
  • Once you begin saying out loud every time you look at technology, you also realize how much you’re looking at technology. And what you’re normalizing for your kids.
  • Teenagers loathe hypocrisy. It’s the biggest thing that I’ve seen to undermine trust between a parent and a child.
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  • When there is a disconnect between parent and child’s views on a situation, the best thing a parent can do is try to understand why the disconnect exists.
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