Take a peek inside a 3D classroom: Action research from The Baldwin School
The ultimate accomplishment of our year-long, job-embedded professional learning journey, The Connected Learner Experience, is the action research project that each team completes and presents at our year-end culminating celebration. Action research is a process in which our educators collaboratively examine their own educational practice systematically and carefully. They work together to identify a problem within their school or community, and then collaboratively to solve it. Action research is meaningful, positive, and reflective. It...
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By now, you’ve probably heard about our groundbreaking professional learning journey, The Connected Learner Experience. It’s a year’s worth of job-embedded professional development based around social media, the transformative power of the Web, and networked collaboration. We’ve worked with over 5,000 other educators just like you, and helped them shift their classrooms into connected, global classrooms in our few months together. We want to let you know that our Connected Learner Experience is at...
read moreUse digital storytelling to show us what makes you a connected learner for a chance to win an iPad 3!
If you want to become a 21st century educator — and prepare iGeneration students for an exciting but unpredictable future — you first have to become a 21st century learner. That’s right. The “connected learner” is YOU. At Powerful Learning Practice, we’ve created a year-long, professional learning journey that takes educators and turns them back into learners first: The Connected Learner Experience. To celebrate the launch of our 2012-13 learning journey, we want to hear from you – What makes you a connected...
read moreWe love teachers! Teacher Appreciation Week summer eCourse giveaway
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! Where would we be without teachers? Over the years you’ve inspired us, challenged us, and kicked our butts to make us better students and better people. Thank you, teachers! To celebrate educators around the world, we are giving away one Summer eCourse! One lucky educator will win a summer eCourse of their choosing. Our eCourses are led by collaborative, cutting-edge educators and are a practical, affordable, and fun way to experience professional learning anywhere your laptop and imagination take...
read morePeriwinkle visits Beverley Acres Public School in Ontario, Canada
Periwinkle, our traveling mascot penguin has had a busy year since his departure in January. He has seen educators and administrators shifting and transforming their 21st century practices through our year-long professional learning journey. He’s also had some time to play, see sights, and even get into a little trouble along the way. Periwinkle’s latest adventure Periwinkle had quite a time visiting Beverley Acres Public School in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. At first he was quite nervous as he had no idea he was entering a...
read more20 innovative books for your summer reading list
Are you gearing up for your summer reading? Don’t hit the beach with an empty Kindle or tote bag! If you’re looking for something to challenge, stimulate, or entertain you, we’ve got 20 suggestions for your summer reading list. Enjoy! 20 innovative books for your summer reading list Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover...
read moreA Day in the Life of a Connected Educator – Using social media in 21st century classrooms
One of our main goals at Powerful Learning Practice is to turn educators into 21st Century educators. That is, teach them how to use social media and other powerful Web 2.0 tools to transform their classrooms into learning environments that are ready for today’s iGeneration students. One of the most common questions we get is, “But where do we find the time to use all this new technology?” To answer that question, we developed this infographic – A Day in the Life of a Connected Educator to show that using social media...
read moreElectronic portfolios for students: Fredericksburg Academy’s action research gives students a voice
The crown jewel of our year-long, job-embedded professional learning journey, The Connected Learner Experience, is the action research project that each team completes and presents at our year-end culminating celebration. Action research is a process in which our educators collaboratively examine their own educational practice systematically and carefully. They work together to identify a problem within their school or community, and then collaboratively to solve it. Action research is meaningful, positive, and reflective. It is data-driven,...
read moreHoward Rheingold & Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach talk passion-based learning, teaching teachers, and connectivism
This week, noted educator, author, and thought leader Howard Rheingold interviewed PLP co-founder Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach to answer this question: As digital media and networks make possible more networked and collaborative pedagogies, who teaches the teachers how to take advantage of the opportunities (and avoid the pitfalls) that new technologies afford? Howard and Sheryl talked about big questions with practical, local implications: What do global, online communities of practice mean for day to day life in classrooms? How do educators...
read moreAffordable 21st century professional development for an entire school
Over the past five years, over 5,000 educators from saw transformative change in their classrooms through a year’s worth of ongoing, professional development presented by Powerful Learning Practice. We covered both big picture discussions and practical, make-and-take sessions about relevant issues like Common Core, 21st Century-izing curriculum using the TPACK model, making technology integration easy, digital citizenship, Web 2.0 tools, and more. For the 2012-13 school year, we are out to change your entire school, and...
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