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YouTube - Today Show January 1994...What is the Internet?! - 0 views

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    Amazing to think back to 1994 - What is the Internet
Phil Taylor

Why Is Project-Based Learning Important? :: TESOL/TESL/TEFL/EFL/ESOL/ESL Resources :: A... - 0 views

  • Solving highly complex problems requires that students have both fundamental skills (reading, writing, and math) and Digital Age skills (teamwork, problem solving, research gathering, time management, information synthesizing, utilizing high-tech tools). With this combination of skills students become directors and managers of their learning process, guided and mentored by a skilled teacher.
Phil Taylor

Social media users grapple with information overload - USATODAY.com - 0 views

  • People are drowning in a deluge of data. Corporate users received about 110 messages a day in 2010, says market researcher Radicati Group. There are 110 million tweets a day, Twitter says. Researcher Basex has pegged business productivity losses due to the "cost of unnecessary interruptions" at $650 billion in 2007.
Phil Taylor

Student Choice in Technology: Check for Understanding, Then Give Freedom - Leading From... - 0 views

  • if the students have met your criteria for completing research and have completed other assessment activities that show proficiency with content, let them pursue their ideas and choices.
Phil Taylor

Evaluating the iPad for Education -- Campus Technology - 0 views

  • Evaluating the iPad for Education
  • attitude here has always been to look very carefully at emerging technologies, and not implement them until we're comfortable that they will benefit students and enhance the curriculum,
Phil Taylor

Will Smart Phones Eliminate the Digital Divide? -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • David Nagel: You've described the cell phone as a "game changer" for education and as the "quintessential 21st century tool." Why the cell phone specifically?
  • or 90 percent of what a student has to do, the smart phone can do i
  • Samsung's Galaxy already has a version that can shoot out a 60-inch image!
Phil Taylor

SchoolWAX TV - 0 views

  • SchoolWAX TV was designed with schools, students, teachers, and parents in mind. You will only find educator approved videos on SchoolWAX TV
Phil Taylor

Survey reveals educators' must-have technologies | 21st Century Education | eSchoolNews... - 0 views

  • Interactive whiteboards are the classroom technology that teachers say they most value, and though tablet-style eReader devices such as Apple’s iPad haven’t been around for long, they’re already considered the second most useful mobile classroom technology behind laptops,
  • 60 percent of their time using educational resources in the classroom that are either free or paid for by the teachers themselves.
Phil Taylor

Stump The Teacher: I Resign From Teaching - 0 views

  • increasingly clear to me that the less I teach, the more my students are actually learning
  • I Resign From Teaching
  • I have carefully constructed learning questions and activities for each student. The students are working collaboratively with each other on differentiated learning activities and producing a variety of evidence
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  • To say this is easier would be a lie
  • Good teaching is hard work regardless of the method you use.
Matt Henderson

Capturing Teachers' Knowledge - 0 views

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    Good article on how we assess teachers.
Phil Taylor

The Pros & Cons of Cloud Backup: Why You Need a Complete Backup System - 0 views

  • there are lots of great benefits to having your data backed up online. But there are also lots of benefits to having your data backed up locally, on an external hard drive. It’s cheap, backups and restores are fast and you maintain control over your data.
Phil Taylor

Social Media Explosion - Implications for the Classroom « Triple A Learning I... - 0 views

  • The role of the academy — and the way we prepare students for their future lives — is changing.
Phil Taylor

6 Top Tech Trends on the Horizon for Higher Education - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of... - 0 views

  • notes that mobile devices have been listed before, but it says that resistance by many schools continues to slow the full integration of mobile devices into higher education.
  • Learning analytics
  • Challenges to adoption include incorporating information coming from a variety of sources and in different formats and concerns about privacy and profiling.
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  • Augmented reality, the layering of virtual information over actual locations, such as an interactive, mobile-based museum map, is another up-and-coming trend. It is two to three years away from adoption in education.
Phil Taylor

Elizabeth Lesser: Take "the Other" to lunch | Video on TED.com - 0 views

  • There's an angry divisive tension in the air that threatens to make modern politics impossible. Elizabeth Lesser explores the two sides of human nature within us (call them "the mystic" and "the warrior”) that can be harnessed to elevate the way we treat each other.
Phil Taylor

Library | Navigator - 0 views

  • selected press clippings and resources in this section have been chosen to provide a clear sense of both the forest and the trees in the landscape of emerging technology
Phil Taylor

iPads4Kids - 0 views

  • it depends on how they are used to support instruction, whether or not they become toys, and what you do with it when it in the hands of the user.  Accessories, apps, and scheduling matter-A LOT.
Phil Taylor

Educational Leadership:Teaching Screenagers:Character Education for the Digital Age - 0 views

  • Our challenge is to find ways to teach our children how to navigate the rapidly moving digital present, consciously and reflectively.
  • the "one life" perspective says the opposite, that it is precisely our job as educators to help students live one, integrated life, by inviting them to not only use their technology at school, but also talk about it within the greater context of community and society.
  • The tie that binds us to our ancestors is that both ancient and digital-age humans crave community
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  • A third approach awaits us: establishing proactive, aggressive character education programs tuned to digital youth.
  • Issues of Digital Citizenship
Phil Taylor

Comprehensive Assessment: A New York City Success Story | Edutopia - 0 views

  • To ensure that students learn how to think critically and are assessed in an "authentic" way
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