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For 'Connected Educator Month,' Tips From 33 Educators We Admire. Stacy BrownErin Olson, an English teacher in Iowa who is featured in our post, uses Twitter-like technology to enhance classroom discussion. Go to related 2011 article » The U.S. Department of Education has declared August Connected Educator Month, and since we’d be nothing without the teachers we’ve connected with over the years, we’re enthusiastically on board.

To celebrate, we asked every educator who has written a guest post for us, been featured in a Reader Idea, or collaborated on one of our features to answer two simple questions: What is one important thing you’ve learned from someone in your Personal Learning Network (P.L.N.), however you define that network? What one person, group or organization would you recommend every educator add to his or her P.L.N.? Reading their responses, below, is a crash course in how to be a “connected educator.” Update | Aug. 2: We accidentally left two people off our list, below. Aliza Aufrichtig | Flocabulary The Year in Rap Contest 1. 2. 1. 2. 1. 2. The Connected Educator. By Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Finally!

The cover to our book: The Connected Educator: Learning and leading in a Digital Age which comes out early Oct. Lani and I hope you will consider reading it and getting a copy for your faculty as well. Who should read this book? To all learners—educators, teachers, administrators, curriculum developers, parents, and students—who have not yet considered the benefits of network and community participation, who have just dipped a toe into the torrent of opportunity, or who already are immersed in digital tools, we ask you to explore with us the power of connected, self-directed professional learning. Help us remix the concepts of professional learning communities, personal learning networks, and communities of practice to support lifelong learning. Make use of and extend our suggested applications.

What Is Different About This Book? We decided books about being connected need to model what they promote and not be just a linear experience.

Beyond Top Down

Personalized Learning for Students & Educators. Helping Every Student. Deborah Meier. The State of Education Today. Connected Education & New Technologies. Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World (9781451611496): Tony Wagner. Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge. Introduction[edit] Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) is a framework to understand and describe the kinds of knowledge needed by a teacher for effective pedagogical practice in a technology enhanced learning environment. The idea of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) was first described by Lee Shulman (Shulman 1986) and TPACK builds on those core ideas through the inclusion of technology. Punya Mishra, professor, and Matthew J.

Koehler, professor, both at Michigan State University, have done extensive work in constructing the TPACK framework. TPACK.org is an active repository of news and information about TPACK. The TPACK Framework[edit] The TPACK framework argues that effective technology integration for teaching specific content or subject matter requires understanding and negotiating the relationships between these three components: Technology, Pedagogy, and Content. TPACK Knowledge Areas[edit] Technology Knowledge (TK)[edit] Content Knowledge (CK)[edit] Context[edit]

20 questions (and answers) about MOOCs. I was asked by the excellent Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach to speak to her PLP class about MOOCs, and, while we had what i thought was an excellent forty minute chat, there were tons of comments that i never had the chance to address. As i look over the questions they asked, I see that in answering their questions i have a chance to lay out many of the thoughts that I have had about MOOCs while they have been all the rage here on the internet in the last few weeks. I opened the discussion with a quick personal intro to my contribution to the MOOC discussion and then we moved to Q & A. Feel free to skim along and pick up the part of the discussion that interests you. Intro Edtechtalk and community – 2005 In 2005 Jeff Lebow and I started edtechtalk. We started a live webcast about educational technology and about the possibilities of the new crazy things that were coming out. What i discovered was that, simply by engaging in random discussions with new people we happened upon – I was learning.

Envisioning-the-future-of-education.png (1600×2263) International Society for Technology in Education - Learning & Leading > Point/Counterpoint: Should Students Use Their Own Devices in the Classroom? Every Educator Has a Story . . . Just Tell It. This is one of my favorite cartoons ever. The “punch” line is that every person on the planet has a story to tell. I also know that every teacher story to tell. Educators are doing amazing things with their learners in spite (i.e., to show spite toward) of the standards-based and accountability-driven movements. I’ve learned about so many exciting learning activities from educators who are publicizing their great projects via Twitter, Facebook, and Blogs.

I’ve read about global collaborations, interesting ways technology is being integrated into the classroom, kids making a difference in their communities, and great project-based learning. This is my own call to action for educators to tell their stories of those rich and amazing things they are doing in their classrooms. For example, I am incorporating students’ mobile devices into an undergraduate course on Interpersonal Relationships. I now have a record/reflection about the class. Like this: Like Loading... Free Twitter Handbook for Teachers - a guide to Twitter in the classroom. Twitter for Teachers. The 2012 A-Z List Of Educational Twitter Hashtags. We got so many additions and updates to our 2011 list we thought it was time to bring you the most up-to-date list for 2012.

So, without further ado, here’s the 2012 A-Z list of educational Twitter hashtags. We went through all the comments on the 2011 version , wrote down all the Twitter and Facebook updates, and compiled this list over the course of several months. What follows is our best effort to bring you the biggest and baddest list of hashtags. I’m sure we still missed some as new hashtags seemingly pop up every day. In any case, let us know what we missed in the comments or on our Facebook page!

First, some background to get you up to speed on what the heck a hashtag is. First, What’s A Hashtag? Whether you’re a new or seasoned Twitter user, you likely come across confusing hashtags that probably look like a bunch of nonsense. The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keyword or topic in a Tweet. How To Hide Your Hashtag Chat From Followers Sources The Most Popular Hashtags. Gross National Happiness Commission - The Planning Commission of Bhutan, Development for Happiness.

E-learning and Digital Cultures. Files/filesystem/IPDP (2009-14) Individual Professional Development Plan.pdf. Happiness Quotient in a Himalayan Kingdom | Through Your Body: THIMPHU, Bhutan If the rest of the world cannot get it right in these unhappy times, this tiny Buddhist kingdom high in the Himalayan mountains says it is working on an answer. “Greed, insatiable human greed,” said Prime Minister Jigme Thinley of Bhutan, describing what he sees as the cause of today’s economic catastrophe in the world beyond the snow-topped mountains.

“What we need is change,” he said in the whitewashed fortress where he works. “We need to think gross national happiness.” The notion of gross national happiness was the inspiration of the former king, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, in the 1970s as an alternative to the gross national product. “You see what a complete dedication to economic development ends up in,” he said, referring to the global economic crisis. Under a new Constitution adopted last year, government programs “from agriculture to transportation to foreign trade” must be judged not by the economic benefits they may offer but by the happiness they produce. ProfessionalGrowth - Teacher Portfolio. Individual • Collaborative Definition: The Teacher Portfolio option is a process involving the collection of best practices in an identified area. The portfolio documents evidence of teacher competencies and guides long-term professional development.

It is a reflective tool to demonstrate professional growth over time. Learn More. Purpose To allow teachers the opportunity to reflect and gather data to support the professional goal, assess teaching strengths, and identify areas which may need improvement. Visit the Teacher Portfolio Reflections blog to read the insights of your peers.Professional Role/ResponsibilityIdentify the portfolio focus area.Decide the portfolio format.

Image from: Reach for the Stars. DuFour PLC Model. What Is a "Professional Learning Community"? To create a professional learning community, focus on learning rather than teaching, work collaboratively, and hold yourself accountable for results. Richard DuFour The idea of improving schools by developing professional learning communities is currently in vogue. People use this term to describe every imaginable combination of individuals with an interest in education—a grade-level teaching team, a school committee, a high school department, an entire school district, a state department of education, a national professional organization, and so on.

In fact, the term has been used so ubiquitously that it is in danger of losing all meaning. The professional learning community model has now reached a critical juncture, one well known to those who have witnessed the fate of other well-intentioned school reform efforts. The rest of this article can be found Videos. Twitter for Teachers: Discover #hashtag PD! When I first joined Twitter about a year ago, I signed on to follow my teenage daughters (stalker mom extraordinaire).

Among their group of friends, they frequently used hashtags (#) at the end of their tweets such as #justsayin or #awkward to express their feelings at the time. Some of them are quite amusing! After I began using Twitter for professional reasons to help build my PLN (Personal Learning Network), I saw hashtags being used by people at conferences: #NAIS, #ISTE11, etc.

By “marking” tweets in this way, people could send a message to fellow tweeps who were at the conference or had an interest in the goings-on. Followers of the hashtag didn’t have to keep up with lots of attendees because savvy tweeters were all using #ISTE11 (for example) on tweets about the meeting. Months later, I have an #ahamoment What I didn’t realize until this summer (#slowlearner), was the ENORMOUS group of educators who are finding folks to connect, chat and collaborate with by following hashtags. A Teacher's Guide to Building a Professional Learning Network (PLN) Edplnteachers. What Is PBL Really? Do you want to engage your students in Project Based Learning (PBL)? Maybe you are asking yourself what is PBL really? Am I doing it right? Well, first of all, the most important thing to understand is that PBL is a construct made up by human beings and so there are lots of variations!

And you are entitled to construct your own version, too, within some parameters. My suggestion is to study many of the great resources that are available to you and then create your own working definition and effective PBL practice. Some Parameters to Consider I have created this diagram, enhanced by the critical eye of Brenda Sherry, which may be useful as you consider what is important to you and to your students. We like to think with the frame of continua rather than dichotomies simply because things are rarely on or off, black or white, ones or zeroes! You could likely add other dimensions to consider as you build your own understandings and beliefs! Trust Who is in control? Questioning Collaboration. And What Do You Mean by Learning? (9780325006390): Seymour Sarason. CEM Kickoff: Connected Education In The Education Landscape and Day-To-Day. The opening sessions of CEM featured a spectacular lineup of thought leaders and influencers. Even the keynotes were highly interactive and audience-driven–as events about online community should be–and we’re sorry if you weren’t able to attend in person.

But we can offer you the next best thing–full recordings of every session, video, audio, audience chat, link-sharing, and everything. Connected Education and Peer Professional Development Panelists: Judi Fusco, Scott McLeod, Howard Rheingold, Tom Whitby; Steve Hargadon moderating Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: 21st Century PD Panelists: Cathy Gassenheimer, Jackie Gerstein, Caren Levine, Stephanie Sandifer, Kathy Shrock, Will Richardson; Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach moderating Knocking On The Door: Connected Education and New Technologies Panelists: Drew Davidson, Chris Dede, Cable Green, John Katzman; Steve Hargadon moderating Kickoff Keynote: Deborah Meier Teacher, Principal, Writer, Advocate.

Loading. Forum Kickoff: Professional Learning in the Learning Profession. This is a recording of (and related links/resources for) the kick-off of Professional Learning and the Learning Profession, one of the main forums for CEM, covering such questions as: What and where are the best (social) opportunities for educators to work on and learn for their practice in the coming year? What steps should every educator consider taking to become more connected, and what are the key resources that can help? In what kinds of learning do teachers (and other educators) need to be engaged in the 21st century, and how will technology help? What are the key methodological and content trends in the classroom (e.g., flipped classrooms, core standards) with which technology (in general) and communities or networks (specifically) can impact and help?

The kick-off consisted of panel and open discussion moderated by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach. Panelists included Cathy Gassenheimer, Jackie Gerstein, Caren Levine, Stephanie Sandifer, Kathy Schrock, and Will Richardson. View The Session. Connected Educator Month.

Connected Educator Month. Professional Learning and the Learning Profession Panel.