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Phil Taylor

Educational Leadership:Giving Students Meaningful Work:Five Hallmarks of Good Homework - 1 views

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Homework education

shared by Phil Taylor on 26 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Homework shouldn't be about rote learning. The best kind deepens student understanding and builds essential skills
Phil Taylor

How Tablets Are Changing the Way We Search - 1 views

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Search Tablets change

shared by Phil Taylor on 15 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • The tablet, more so than other devices, can know enough about you to understand the context around your queries and give you better answers, he says. “Search becomes a unified experience on a tablet … a unified experience between our eyes, our ears and our cognitive processes.”
Phil Taylor

Beautiful Brains| The Committed Sardine - 0 views

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brains teens development

shared by Phil Taylor on 05 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Aristotle concluded more than 2,300 years ago that "the young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine."
  • "We're so used to seeing adolescence as a problem. But the more we learn about what really makes this period unique, the more adolescence starts to seem like a highly functional, even adaptive period. It's exactly what you'd need to do the things you have to do then."
  • Teens take more risks not because they don't understand the dangers but because they weigh risk versus reward differently: In situations where risk can get them something they want, they value the reward more heavily than adults do.
Phil Taylor

Nine Elements - 0 views

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aup ictag plan digitalcitizenship digital_citizenship education InternetSafety netiquette citizenship

shared by Phil Taylor on 23 Nov 09 - Cached
  • requires sophisticated searching and processing skills
  • many users have not been taught how to make appropriate decisions
  • we must teach everyone to become responsible digital citizens
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  • All people should have fair access to technology no matter who they are.
  • learn about how to be effective consumers in a new digital economy
  • Users need to understand that stealing or causing damage to other people’s work, identity, or property online is a crime.
  • digital rights must be addressed
  • also come responsibilities as well
  • culture where technology users are taught how to protect themselves through education and training
  • In any society, there are individuals who steal, deface, or disrupt other people.
  • Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. 
Phil Taylor

From Groups to Teams: The Key to Powering up PBL | Edutopia - 1 views

www.edutopia.org/...ct-based-learning-thom-markham

groups pbl projectbasedlearning teams

shared by Phil Taylor on 15 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • PBL is method for teaching students to find, process, understand, and share information, not a way to extend the industrial landscape of regurgitation and recall.
  • Teams focus on performance, commitment, and outcomes.
Phil Taylor

Inanimate Alice: Born Digital | Digital Is ... - 0 views

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alice inanimate digital book digital story telling

shared by Phil Taylor on 21 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Understanding and integrating new literacies related to the production and consumption of digital content has become essential for education in this digital age.
Phil Taylor

How to Grow a Classroom Culture That Supports Blended Learning | MindShift - 0 views

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blended_learning classroom culture education blended learning blended Wojcicki

shared by Phil Taylor on 06 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Part of such a culture is understanding that the teacher is not the only expert in the room; in fact, students can know more than the teacher about some aspects of what they will be doing together.
Phil Taylor

Survey Finds Parents Mostly OK With Kids' Use of Tech - 0 views

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survey parents kids tech

shared by Phil Taylor on 13 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • concern over stranger danger is interesting given that the actual risk (as opposed to perceived) of a child being harm by a stranger they meet online is very low.
  • understand actual risks as measured by data from organizations like the Crimes Against Children Research Department, the Centers for Disease Control, the Justice Department and others who keep up-to-date records on risks and harms.
  • great to see that parents are in-touch with their kids’ use of technology
Phil Taylor

Inquiry Based Learning is dead, long live inquiry. - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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inquiry based learning learner

shared by Phil Taylor on 30 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • Not that this is a truly radical idea, Einstein understood this and stated ‘Education is not the learning of facts, it’s rather the training of a mind to think’.
  • If our goal is to teach students to swim we would not do so by pushing them into the sea, but we would also not expect them to learn to swim without ever getting into the water.
  • go back to trying to understand how we may best support our students achieve their potential and prepare for a world beyond our classrooms
Phil Taylor

21st Century Competencies - 0 views

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competencies change education plan

shared by Phil Taylor on 24 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • 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

Angela Maiers' Fresh Look at 21st Century Learning: Classroom Habitudes - Emerging Education Technologies - 0 views

www.emergingedtech.com/...y-learning-classroom-habitudes

angela learning classroom education technologies

shared by Phil Taylor on 08 Dec 15 - No Cached
  • We’ve all been hearing about the importance of 21st century skills for well over a decade now. But many of us struggle to understand what these really mean and how to integrate them into our lessons and classrooms.
Phil Taylor

Growth mindset guru Carol Dweck says teachers and parents often use her research incorrectly - The Hechinger Report - 1 views

hechingerreport.org/n-use-her-research-incorrectly

shared by Phil Taylor on 24 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • she advises teachers and parents to praise a child’s process and strategies, and tie those to the outcome
  • “Let’s look at what you’ve done,” “Let’s look at what your understanding is,” or “Let’s look at what strategies you’ve used, and let’s figure out together what we should try next.”
  • Dweck says that many teachers have to change how they teach, offering more critical feedback and giving students opportunities to revise their work
Phil Taylor

A Principal's Reflections: A Pedagogical Shift Needed for Digital Success - 0 views

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reflections principal shift success

shared by Phil Taylor on 09 Oct 17 - No Cached
  • Lend a critical lens to your digital learning activities to being to develop more activities where students demonstrate what they understand as opposed to what they just know.
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