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Phil Taylor

Are iPads, Smartphones, and the Mobile Web Rewiring the Way We Think?| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

  • e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says.
  • "It's indisputable that the Internet has made us smarter.... The range of things you can explore in a day is just fantastic compared to 20 years ago," says David Weinberger, senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. "There's no question that we feel the Internet has made us better researchers, better thinkers, better writers."
  • Books "are not the shape of knowledge," he says. "They're a limitation on knowledge." The idea of a single author presenting her ideas "was born of the limitations of paper publishing. It's not necessarily the only way or the best way to think and to write."
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  • Wolf makes sure she stays off-line at specific times. "For a half hour before bedtime and a half hour in the morning I do nothing digital," she says.
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    "e difference between quick skimming and scanning on the Web, which lodges in the brain's short-term memory and is quickly lost, and the long-term memories that a more thoughtful kind of slow reading provides. "I share Nicholas Carr's feeling that my brain has been rewired," he says."
Phil Taylor

The New Face of Reading? Some E-Books Now Outselling Hardbacks| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

  • "Paperbacks are surely still selling at sky-high rates, but the appeal of having a 'stack' of books crammed into one, slim device is certainly winning over customers."
Phil Taylor

Digital Citizen Resources| The Committed Sardine - 1 views

  • I found the videos and other resources that I used in the presentation. Here is a list of the materials I used and also some of the other ones I didn’t use, but are worthwhile looking at depending on your audience.
Phil Taylor

The Committed Sardine - blog - 0 views

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    "This a prototype activity mapping tool designed to link higher order thinking skills to how the content and context of the topic, unit, course or courses are approached and learnt. "
Phil Taylor

The Committed Sardine - blog - 0 views

  • today’s students have the ability to start ripples in society, and a good education leader will know how to give students the skills they need to start those ripples.
  • kids are really doing is jumping between different tasks and not giving each task full attention.
  • continual partial attention
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  • “The question you should be asking is, ‘When they leave school, are they even more curious than when they began?’”
  • One of the greatest ways to engage students and teach 21st-century skills is by using the web for collaboration,”
  • The work of the group as a whole needs to be assessed as well.”
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