Digital Experience in the Elementary Classroom
Digital creations and communications opportunities abound for the 21st Century classroom. Hear about best practices and explore teacher strategies specially suited for the elementary classrooms empowered by a world of learning opportunities at your fingertips. Presenter: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Date: January 28, 2010 Series: Virtual Institutes View this session About this session This session is sponsored by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, and brought to you by Nancy Caramanico. Follow her on Twitter. About the facilitator: Powerful Learning...
read moreWhat Do You Value?
By Karl Fisch When educators talk about schools and technology, there’s a natural tendency to look forward, to a time when schools are “better,” with technology often part of the perceived solution. In fact, this is often a technique to try to focus on that elusive “vision” of what it is we do and what that could look like. In the ADVIS Cohort of PLP, we recently had an interesting discussion that Will Richardson started around the idea of a “2020 Vision” for education and where we might be ten years from now. Will asked, If you...
read moreTaking one step, then another, to an entirely new level
By Lani Ritter-Hall “Part of the mission of PLP is to help participants build their cyber confidence while at the same time starting to build their personal and professional learning networks. One way we do that is by bringing in Experienced Voices. The idea behind “Experienced Voices” is twofold. First, it’s to bring into the PLP communities folks knowledgeable about both the tools and the pedagogy, and have them help PLP members explore various topics related to teaching and learning in the 21st century. Second, it’s a way to help...
read more21st Century Teaching: Rigor & Relevance
Creating a 21st Century classroom is a goal shared by teachers everywhere. See how various strategies and tools are making a difference in bringing about Rigor and Relevance in today’s classrooms. Ongoing professional learning opportunities are at our fingertips thanks to the web. Understanding how to leverage those opportunities for continual learning with colleagues down the hall or halfway around the world is a requirement for 21st century educators of all stripes. Presenter: Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Date: January 21, 2010 Series: Virtual...
read moreNo Choice
By Will Richardson One of my favorite things that Sheryl says when she talks about the challenges that schools face right now is that this generation of kids in our schools is the first not to have a choice about technology. Most of us grew up in a time when technology was an add on, and for many of us, we still see it as a choice, especially in education. (Just the other day I was at a meeting of about 25 school leaders and teachers to discuss how social learning tools can be infused into an inquiry based curriculum and only one person was...
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