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Phil Taylor

Back to School Apps Section in iPad App Store Looks Great - iPad Insight - 1 views

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  • There’s a new section in the Featured are of the iPad App Store this week: Back to School Apps.
Phil Taylor

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

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  • Homework shouldn't be about rote learning. The best kind deepens student understanding and builds essential skills
Phil Taylor

Class, Turn On Your Cell Phones: It's Time to Text | MindShift - 1 views

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  • Messaging via Celly happens without sharing phone numbers, for example, and there are a number of controls that allow group administrators to approve or kick people.
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4 More Useful iPad Tricks You May Still Not Know About - 1 views

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  • Keyboard Tricks: Add Symbols And Domain Types Easily
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The Single Best Idea for Reforming K-12 Education - Forbes - 1 views

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  • “single best idea for reforming K-12 education”.
  • Root cause: factory model of management
  • The goal needs to shift from one of making a system that teaches children a curriculum more efficiently to one of making the system more effective by inspiring lifelong learning in students, so that they are able to have full and productive lives in a rapidly shifting economy.
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Will · "We Prepare Children to Learn How to Learn" - 1 views

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  • “We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test,” said Pasi Sahlberg, a former math and physics teacher who is now in Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture.
  • seeing this “human aspect” of education?
Phil Taylor

10 Infographics for Learning | Getting Smart - 1 views

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shared by Phil Taylor on 08 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • We all love infographics. Why? Well, they help us grasp information in a quick and fun way that appeals to our visual senses. In fact, there’s an infographic here explaining that. Below you’ll find 10 infographics that discuss learning in many different capacities – online, blended, mobile, etc. Tell us, what’s your favorite infographic on learning?
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Legal Music For Videos - Creative Commons - 1 views

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  • Most importantly, you need to use music that is not licensed under a No Derivative Works license. This means that the musician doesn’t want you to change, transform, or make a derivative work using their music. Under CC licenses, synching the music to images amounts to transforming the music, so you can’t legally use a song under a CC No Derivative Works license in your video.
Phil Taylor

Quality Homework - A Smart Idea - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • Do American students have too much homework or too little? Neither, I’d say. We ought to be asking a different question altogether. What should matter to parents and educators is this: How effectively do children’s after-school assignments advance learning?
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Marc My Words: Back to School - Tablets in the Classroom by Marc J. Rosenberg : Learnin... - 1 views

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  • Re-writing curriculum, engaging in faculty development, and implementing new instructional design models are essential if we are to realize the promise of technology. Funding faculty workshops, developing master teachers who can teach others, and sharing content development costs regionally are just some of the ways we can approach this challenge.
Phil Taylor

How Tablets Are Changing the Way We Search - 1 views

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  • 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.”
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Learner First - 1 views

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  •  I am all for PBL but I think that we need to not only create the opportunities for our students to do this, but for ourselves as well.  Again referencing the Wagner book, schools in Singapore are seeing the importance of learning communities that promote active learning:
Phil Taylor

What the iPad (and other technology) can't replace in education - The Answer Sheet - Th... - 1 views

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  • We need to stop pretending that technology can fix problems that aren’t technological in nature. Kids are bored. They don’t know why they’re learning what they’re learning. The solution isn’t asking the question better. The solution is asking a better question.
Phil Taylor

4 things everyone needs to know about the Facebook overhaul - 1 views

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  • Oh, no! Facebook is different! You were just starting to feel like you’d cracked the secrets of getting into followers’ “top news” feeds. Now everything is different. What will you do? Don’t panic. Breathe deeply, read these four tips and know that it’s going to be all right.
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