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Study Finds More Young Kids Can Work a Smartphone Than Tie Their Shoes - Ina Fried - Mo... - 1 views

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    ""Technology has changed what it means to be a parent raising children today--these children are growing up in an environment that would be unrecognizable to their parents," Smith said. "As our research shows, parents need to start educating kids about navigating the online world safely at an earlier age than they might otherwise have thought.""
Phil Taylor

How Teachers Actually Feel About Education Technology [Infographic] | Edudemic - 1 views

  • the proper way to implement this technology so it’s as effective as possible
Phil Taylor

Global Digital Citizen-The Role of the Teacher| The Committed Sardine - 1 views

  • With the huge potential that Information and communication technology has to offer for teaching and learning also comes a matching potential for distraction, illicit and inappropriate activity, and poor judgement.
  • The teacher holds a cornerstone role in the development of understanding, the appreciation of culture and diversity, and the formation of the moral and ethical basis that, like the cornerstone of a building, provides a strong and stable foundation for life in both the real and virtual world they co-inhabit.
  • The most salient lessons are not learned by avoidance but by facing you action, its impact, and the consequences.
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  • All teachers are teachers of citizenship.
  • The teacher is no longer just the master of their subject. They are much, much more. Their classroom is no longer defined by four walls and a blackboard, but stretches far beyond the physical boundaries of their school. We are global teachers, ethicists, and moralists. We are masters of our subject and students of the world.
Phil Taylor

How Social Media has Changed Education Forever | Education News | Young Academic Educat... - 1 views

  • Social media is now being embraced by even the hardiest traditionalist as perhaps the best way to get messages to the masses and individuals. First seen as somewhat of a fad, Facebook is now the most used search engine on the web and even figures like Barack Obama and The Queen have a page.
  • Bullying is a worry for any student and indeed their parents but research has shown that pupils are far more likely to be bullied on the school bus than they are on any social media site.
Phil Taylor

When the Internet Goes Down: Banning Technology| The Committed Sardine - 1 views

  • nstead of banning the devices that we know our students love, we should figure out how to use them to engage our students. Rather than banning them from the classroom, we should be showing students how to use them appropriately.
  • Teaching students how to use those tools properly and finding a balance between technology and other hands-on methods of learning is what really makes sense
Phil Taylor

Stop Stealing Dreams - 1 views

  • What is school for?
  • School was invented to create a constant stream of compliant factory workers to the growing businesses of the 1900s. It continues to do an excellent job at achieving this goal, but it's not a goal we need to achieve any longer.
Joseph Magdalene

Systems Analyst Resume Format - 1 views

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    Systems analyst resume has to be written in a very precise manner so that the recruiter can easily assimilate information with respect to your profile.
Phil Taylor

Why most teachers don't know what they don't know. « My Island View - 1 views

  • Technology is the driving force behind most of the education innovation. It is impacting not only what we can do as educators, but it is also changing how we approach learning. These innovations may have not all reached the education journals yet, but they have been presented and are being discussed digitally and at great length in social media.
  • Information from technology may be easily accessed, but it is not yet a passive exercise. It requires effort and an ability to learn and adapt. These are skills that all educators have, but many may not always be willing to use. The status quo has not required educators to use these skills in a long time. Using these skills requires effort and leaving a long-standing zone of comfort in order to learn and use new methods of information retrieval.
  • They need to be the life-long learners that they want their students to be.
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  • In order for teachers to better guide themselves in their learning, they need to know what it is that they need to know. They need relevant questions about relevant changes. Being connected to other educators, who are practicing these changes already, is a great first step.
Phil Taylor

iPads at Burley: Making assessment meaningful - 1 views

  • Specifically, I am thinking about the many ways the iPad has enriched and strengthened our daily assessment practices -- and the value I see in authentic, embedded, process-rich assessment that informs and improves instruction.
Phil Taylor

The iPad brings a rethink of how we browse the Internet | iGo With My iPad - 1 views

  • Reading online content later when offline is not something new, but a new free app for the iPad gets us rethinking our daily Internet browsing.
  • apps is Readability. The company provides a method to show content of Web site posts on the iPad without all of the extra distractions you have to sort through when viewing via a Web Browser.
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