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21 Reasons Technology Works for Education | EdTech Magazine - 0 views

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  • 1,000 high school students, faculty, and district IT professionals around the country to get their take on technology’s place in the classroom.
Phil Taylor

10 BYOD Classroom Experiments (and What We've Learned From Them So Far) - Online Universities - 0 views

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BYOD Classroom mlearning

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  • 10 BYOD Classroom Experiments (and What We’ve Learned From Them So Far)
  • What can Holy Trinity teach us? That when it comes to BYOD, it pays not to be overly strict with how the devices can be used in the class, as greater freedom allows teachers to work with students to develop the best uses for technology for their subject matter and teaching style.
  • BYOD requires much more than just changing tech policies and can sometimes mean overhauling the curriculum and spending money training teachers, though it does help students create a more personal and memorable learning experience.
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  • At Mankato, the BYOD program relies heavily on Google Docs and other tools that aren’t platform specific and that serve information to any Internet-accessible device, which points to one of the biggest problems with BYOD: managing a variety of different tech platforms
  • Students can only use devices during times that are approved by teachers and cannot use class time to troubleshoot tech problems.
  • The school also built a virtual desktop system which can be accessed through any device students or teachers bring into school
  • stop trying to battle cell phone use at school and instead decided to integrate the phones into lesson plans for eighth-graders and high school students.
  • BYOD at KISD demonstrates that while technology can be a distraction, it can also be an amazing learning tool that can not only interest students but also help them to become higher achievers.
  • school district encourages students to take the lead, inviting them to make videos that demonstrate acceptable and unacceptable use of personal phones and computers.
Phil Taylor

10 Major Technology Trends in Education -- THE Journal - 0 views

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technology trends 2014

shared by Phil Taylor on 06 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • The 2013 results represent more than 400,000 surveys from 9,000 schools and 2,700 districts across the country. Respondents included 325,279 students, 32,151 teachers and librarians, 39,986 parents, 4,530 district administrators and, new to this year’s survey, 1,346 community members.
  • 89 percent of high schools students have access to Internet-connected smart phones, while 50 percent of students in grades 3 through 5 have access to the same type of devices
  • students are designing “best-fit” solutions for their very specific needs.
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Phil Taylor

Tracie Schroeder, teacher at Council Grove High School: Snapchat's video and text update is the biggest classroom distraction ever. - 0 views

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teacher classroom distraction video update SnapChat

shared by Phil Taylor on 05 May 14 - No Cached
  • At that point I took all the phones away and we had a little reminder chat about when it was appropriate to use your phone and when it was not. Also that it was rarely appropriate to hide under the table.
Phil Taylor

News Flash: High School Students Are Bored - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher - 0 views

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

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new reading books

shared by Phil Taylor on 05 Aug 10 - Cached
  • "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."
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