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Best Free iPad App of the Week: Vodio - iPad Insight - 2 views

  • Vodio presents you with a series of Channels covering popular video categories – these include Buzz (a sort of overall What’s Hot section), Music, Entertainment, Sports, Tech (yay), and Comedy. You can add more channels easily –
Phil Taylor

New technologies enter our lives and society in four stages. - Slate Magazine - 2 views

  • smartphones just haven’t been around as long as TV; we haven’t yet established norms, or language, for what's socially acceptable and what's off limits.
  • struggling to make sense of a technology he didn't completely understand and the affect
  • smartphones move from Stage 2 to Stage 3. What is the indicator for this grand cultural shift? Dilbert
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  • This holiday season, Stage 3 technologies lined big-box stores and the pages of online retailers. This year, it was the iPad 2 and the Kindle Fire.
  • When a technology becomes mundane, it gets absorbed into the fabric of our lives and the history of our culture.
  • living in fear that texting and the Internet were stealing his girls, about 12 and 14, from him and his wife.
Phil Taylor

On the Eve of the iPad 3, Apple to Rethink Textbooks and Education - 2 views

  • Just as Apple has entered the market for digital music and, more recently, consumer-focused e-books, it appears set to put a digital, interactive spin on the textbook.
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    "Just as Apple has entered the market for digital music and, more recently, consumer-focused e-books, it appears set to put a digital, interactive spin on the textbook. "
Phil Taylor

Danah Boyd - Cracking Teenagers' Online Codes - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • But as Dr. Boyd sees it, adults are worrying about the wrong things.
  • “Children’s ability to roam has basically been destroyed,”
  • even though by all measures, life is safer for kids today.”
Phil Taylor

Actually, teachers DON'T have to learn technology - Redefining my role: Teacher as student - 2 views

  • t “most teachers” just don’t put in the effort to incorporate technology into their instruction. I would have to agree, but I think it’s important to ask, “Why should they?”
  • Or do they?… Are their colleagues telling them they have to? Are their administrators telling them they have to? Are the parents telling them they have to? If not, then they don’t have to learn it.
  • I believe it is our responsibility as educators to integrate technology into instruction as much as we are able to
Phil Taylor

Getting teachers on board the iPad Express - 2 views

  • continuous, regular, “hands on” collaboration.
Phil Taylor

3 Ways To Keep Students Focused Amid All The Gadgets | Edudemic - 2 views

  •  Instead of bookworms, perhaps we should call these kids “gadgetworms.” So, how can we keep them focused on our lesson when they would rather text their friends?  We can return to the very first principle of good lesson planning.
  • my experience has shown that if the lessons are engaging, student-centered, and appropriately presented, kids will focus and their devices will stay in their pockets.
Phil Taylor

One district's experience with iPads | News | eClassroom News - 2 views

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Phil Taylor

Future Work Skills 2020 | Institute For The Future - 2 views

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    Rather than focusing on future jobs, this report looks at future work skills-proficiencies and abilities required across different jobs and work settings.
Phil Taylor

It Is Not About the Gadgets - Why Every Teacher Should Have to Integrate Tech Into Thei... - 2 views

  •  Integrating technology is no more optional than teaching how to use a pencil.  And while many may find that extreme, we cannot equip our students with the skills they need to be successful learners and teachers without teaching them to use technology properly.  
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