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Phil Taylor

The Future of Learning: An Interview with Alfred Bork - 1 views

  • Learning focuses on the student, not the teacher.
  • So "learning" as it is usually found today -- in lectures, video, and web experiences -- is viewed as transmitting information from one person to another
  • We neglect important high-level skills such as problem solving
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  • Future learning should look continually for individual learning problems and offer help for these problems. Students should have adequate time to learn the material well.
Phil Taylor

Five Reasons for Integrating Technology | Edutopia - 1 views

  • Parents and teachers must be a part of monitoring and modeling
  • How ever will we train all those teachers?
  • ake something off teachers' plates rather than put more on. We have to prioritize, and including technology is too important.
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  • Some students don't have access to technology at home so how can we expect them to use it for assignments?
  • Teachers need to be on the forefront of curriculum, not in its wake. We need to be leading the charge towards preparing our students for their future, not hindering our march towards tomorrow
Phil Taylor

Idea Flight for iPad - Gizmodo - 1 views

  • Imagine you have a presentation to show off but instead of using a projector and paper print outs, you're using iPads.
Phil Taylor

Ted Curran.net » Cultivate your Personal Learning Network - 1 views

  • Think of your favorite teachers over the years– they presented you with challenging, thought-provoking material and then asked you to think about it, question it, master the skills, and respond in a thoughtful way.
Phil Taylor

Free Webinar Replay - g06137od - 1 views

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    Webinar on searching with Google - enjoy
Phil Taylor

Starting a blog : a guide for teachers | The Whiteboard Blog - 1 views

  • advice on starting up a blog
  • Your blog is public, so consider any issues of privacy
Phil Taylor

What Does Challenge Based Learning Look Like? - 1 views

  • Apple’s Challenge Based Learning program
Phil Taylor

Dialogue New Literacies 2011: How to Use New Media to Teach Writing, Research and Analy... - 1 views

  • key to teaching new literacy skills is to change the focus of student writing.
  • the value of a written essay lies not in its format but in the skills students develop:  identify a thesis, research and analyze evidence to test the thesis, and then present the analysis results.
  • Why must these skills be confined to a written format?
Phil Taylor

Google+: The Complete Guide - 1 views

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    "le's complete guide to Google+: "
Phil Taylor

Not Your Father's School: A Letter to New Teachers - 1 views

  • teaching isn’t about content and it’s not about technology. It’s about kids, about building relationships with them, about believing in them, about finding out what they can do and then providing opportunities for them to do it.
  • Know your students, have faith in their capacities, and magical things will happen.
  • you’re a professional now
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  • The best teachers do the same, and you should try to emulate that—if for no other reason than to stay on the right side of all the disruptive change that’s coming along.
  • the strongest teachers are very good at gently, and sometimes not so gently, reminding parents that we’re all on the same side here
  • go to your school’s website and re-read the mission statement. If there are sections on values, and history, read those, too.
Phil Taylor

Education Week: Moving From 'Acceptable' to 'Responsible' Use in a Web 2.0 World - 1 views

  • Developing Responsible-Use Policies:
  • best way schools can contribute to safe and appropriate use of the Internet and student owned-mobile devices is to move from the traditional AUP approach to an RUP—a “responsible-use policy” approach.
  • RUP policy/philosophy that treats the student as a person responsible for ethical and healthy use of the Internet and mobile devices.
Phil Taylor

Learning Objects Community - Objects of Interest - 1 views

  • As teachers and students prepare to go back to school, it is a good time to consider adding some new tools to your teaching repertoire. Here are some Web 2.0 lesson ideas to implement in your classroom this year.
Phil Taylor

Family meetings, 'tech breaks,' encouraged to keep tabs on kids' online activity - Winn... - 1 views

  • Parents who try to secretly monitor their kids' online activities are wasting their time and should use an approach that builds trust and allows for conversation, says a psychologist who has studied texting, social networking and other online pursuits.
  • "Your job then is to learn and to assess, and to now use your parent radar to see if there might be any problems."
Phil Taylor

The Best Way to Store Stuff in the Cloud - 1 views

  • We tested eleven of the most popular cloud storage services out there, looked at their price-per-gigabyte, and considered their various features and functionality.
  • How sweet it is. SugarSync is essentially everything we wanted.
  • Budget Winner: Google
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  • Your Mom's Winner: Dropbox
Sydney Wedphoto

Fun Experience with Professional Wedding Photography in Sydney - 1 views

Weddings are all about showing each other that you are in love and committed towards one another. It is an event that should be fun because it only happens once in a lifetime. Couples who are happy...

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