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Google+: The Dark Side of the Circle | Edutopia - 0 views

  • We also know, from research around the world, that when asked about bullying, adults in the school give themselves much higher marks for anti-bullying intervention and effectiveness than students give those same adults.
Phil Taylor

The 21st-century classroom can be a daunting place - 0 views

  • Today's students are no longer the population our educational system was designed to teach. So how do I actively engage my students in learning situations that fulfill the requirements of higher education in the language and style of their digital culture?
Phil Taylor

The University of Wherever - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Two recent events at Stanford University suggest that the day is growing nearer when quality higher education confronts the technological disruptions that have already upended the music and book industries, humbled enterprises from Kodak to the Postal Service (not to mention the newspaper business), and helped destabilize despots across the Middle East.
Phil Taylor

iPad-enabled students get performance boost, says ACU study | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog - 0 views

  • students who annotated text on their iPads scored 25% higher on questions regarding information transfer than their paper-based peers
Phil Taylor

Professors With Personal Tweets Get High Credibility Marks - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • , but there are certain topics she’ll never discuss, such as student or faculty behavior.
Phil Taylor

SPACE - 0 views

  • SPACE is a 3D teaching and learning resource, particularly aimed at supporting performing arts lecturers/teachers and students in both Higher and Further Education.
Phil Taylor

Pearson and Google Jump Into Learning Management With a New, Free System - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

  • Today Pearson, the publishing and learning technology group, has teamed up with the software giant Google to launch OpenClass, a free LMS
  • It enters a market that has been dominated by costly institution-anchored services like Blackboard, and open-source but labor-intensive systems like Moodle.
Phil Taylor

Googleable vs Non-Googleable Questions \ The Lab - 0 views

  • The Why Every topic, every bit of learning has content that can be Googled, and we don't want teachers wasting precious enquiry time lecturing that content. We want students, instead, to be using class time to collaborate and debate around the questions that are Not Googleable, the rich higher order thinking
Phil Taylor

21st Century Competencies - 0 views

  • education is falling behind the curve,1 as it did during the rapid changes brought on by the Industrial Revolution.
  • The last major changes to cur­riculum2 were effected in the late 1800s as a response to the sudden growth in societal and human capital needs
  • Having students develop deep knowledge is as essential as ever. But today, we must also make that knowledge relevant.
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  • Tough choices must be made regarding what to pare back in order to allow for more appropriate areas of focus
  • we need to infuse “themes” — important lenses such as global literacy, environmental literacy, information literacy, digital literacy, systems thinking, and design thinking
  • Higher-order skills such as the “4 C’s” — creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration4 — are essential for deeply learning knowledge as well as for demonstrating understanding through performance.
  • Character is about how we engage in the world.
  • Meta-learning is the awareness of one’s own learning and cognitive ability. Having such an awareness is the best hedge against continuous changes.
  • Historical inertia has been a large deciding factor when it comes to curriculum design, at the policy/process level.
  • we must keep two key questions before us at all times: Is education relevant enough for this century? Are we educating students to be versatile in a world that is increasingly challenged and challenging?
  • The Opportunity for Independent Schools
Phil Taylor

A technology 'evangelist' believes colleges can teach their digital natives a thing or two - 0 views

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    ""Eighty-two percent of elementary school kids can't tell the difference between a sponsored website and a real news website," he said. They may know the tools better than the grown-ups do, but they have a lot to learn."
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