Skip to main content

Home/ SJR Teacher/Learners/ Group items matching "Higher" in title, tags, annotations or url

Group items matching
in title, tags, annotations or url

Sort By: Relevance | Date Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Phil Taylor

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

  •  
    ""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."
Phil Taylor

Hey Higher Ed, Why Not Focus On Teaching? : NPR Ed : NPR - 0 views

  • You argue that the well-established, traditional, large lecture format still used widely today across higher education is ineffectual. Why?
Phil Taylor

Educators Must Accept Tech Methods, Higher Ed Leaders Say - 0 views

  • Less discussed is how to mix online tools with in-person college classrooms. And some technology proponents say faculty need to do this effectively on a large scale to prepare students for life beyond college - and to make sure college stays relevant to a generation that has spent most of their lives on digital devices.
  • "I don't know if we can continue to pretend that we operate in analog environments and still prepare students for the digital world."
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.
  • ...8 more annotations...
  • 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

16 Ways the 2016 Horizon Report Indicates That Higher Ed is Undergoing a Seismic Shift - Emerging Education Technologies - 0 views

  •  
    "16 Ways the 2016 Horizon Report Indicates That Higher Ed is Undergoing a Seismic Shift"
Phil Taylor

A Higher Chance of Becoming Great? The "Twitter" Factor - The Principal of Change - 0 views

  • Isolation is now a choice educators make.  We have access to not only information, but each other. We need to tap into that.
Phil Taylor

It's Here! The NMC Horizon Report > 2015 HiEd Edition | The New Media Consortium - 0 views

  •  
    Higher Ed Report - K-12 coming soon
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
1 - 20 of 83 Next › Last »
Showing 20 items per page