Phil Taylor's List: Technology Plan Resources

• The 6 step plan for using your web 2.0 voice to make a difference.

• the skills students need in the 21st century are not new

• The gaps between how we learn in the real world and what schools do has never been greater. Those gaps continue to increase every year, as the pace of change inside school is dwarfed by that outside of school. What's our moral / ethical / professional obligation as school leaders to prepare students for the world as it is and will be, not what was? I think it's pretty high.

• 21st century learning is about the experience, not about the tools you are using. The experience defines the tools, not the other way around.
• “What ICT is going to help my children learn by helping them to become resourceful and habitual learners — engaged in a learning lifestyle?”

• Creating is not only at the top of Bloom’s taxonomy, it is a critical skill needed for the advancement of our society.
• Curating is a skill needed to sift through the mountains of new content created every day.
• A key component of creative class jobs is collaboration

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• For such quick assessments, many teachers use the free Web tool www.polleverywhere.com to get instant feedback
• ninth-grade English Literature class bent over their cell phones, furiously texting. They are engaged and on task, and she will soon have their thoughts on the possible consequences of Friar Lawrence marrying two star-crossed lovers in sixteenth-century Verona.
• tudents told researchers that they learned best when collaborating with peers and, when asked to name their choice of technological learning tools, overwhelmingly chose smart phones over fancy new laptops.
• lessons around the capabilities of the dumbest phone

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• Anybody that has been through a laptop initiative knows that battery life can be the kryptonite of the program. 
• Then there’s the software.  And that’s where the “not yet” part comes in. 
• Or if you can really think long term, I might consider waiting one more year for all those little details to be resolved by developers.

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• However I think it has never been easier to be a teacher. No teacher throughout history has had access to the powerful ICT tools that we have.