Teaching & Team Leading

Teaching & Team Leading

By Bud Hunt I wouldn’t know Chad Evans if he passed me on the street, but I know his brain, and he’s a valuable member of my learning community. That’s shifty, and something that I’m experiencing more and more through my work with and time in communities like the NJPLP. I had the opportunity to sit down recently with Chad and talk with him about his work as a team leader in the NJPLP. We discussed what he’s learning as he works with his team to think strategically about what technologies should inform his...

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What’s Your Story?

What’s Your Story?

By Dean Shareski One of my favourite lines from the Cisco video “The Human Network” is Welcome to world where people subscribe to people, not magazines. There so much about the sentence that rings true everyday for me. The ability we have to connect with each other, not simply as learners but as humans is what is so completely revolutionary that is changing the world. As we connect and share, learning often takes care of itself. The New Jersey PLP network has been talking about the personal side of learning in a discussion called...

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Sharing, Risk Taking, and Creativity

Sharing, Risk Taking, and Creativity

By Karl Fisch One of the fascinating things about being a “Community Leader” in a PLP cohort is the opportunity to observe the great discussions going on and ideas being generated in schools around the world, and watch as learning communities develop both in individual schools and virtually in the cohort. Recently in the ADVIS PLP cohort, Dennis wrote in a post titled Sharing, Risk Taking, and Creativity: At our faculty meeting today I was center stage discussing teaching and learning in the 21st century. My first announcement was the fact...

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PLP Live with Howard Rheingold

PLP Live with Howard Rheingold

In this session, we talk with author Howard Rheingold about the role of technology and the social revolution in the lives of our students. Guest Author: Howard Rheingold Date: Jan. 6, 2009 Series: PLP Live Events View this session About PLP Live Events PLP Live is a series of engaging interviews with authors about their books and their takes on technology and the 21st century. About the author Howard Rheingold is author of numerous books and articles on technology, including “Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution,” “The...

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