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Take a peek inside a 3D classroom: Action research from The Baldwin School

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

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Our early bird registration closes in 2 weeks! Get in now, save big, and transform your teaching!

Our early bird registration closes in 2 weeks! Get in now, save big, and transform your teaching!

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

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Cathy Beach loves learning and transforming her 21st century classroom

Cathy Beach loves learning and transforming her 21st century classroom

PLP eCourses attract participants from across the globe to learn and grow with one another. Over the next few weeks, we will feature interviews with current and past PLP eCourse participants. We’ll ask participants to share information about themselves, why they chose PLP eCourses and what they are up to professionally.

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Save 20% off any summer eCourse, plus PLP celebrates educators with a giveaway!

Save 20% off any summer eCourse, plus PLP celebrates educators with a giveaway!

We love teachers! 20% discount off any eCourse starts today! Last week we thanked teachers for inspiring, challenging, and making us better students and people. We also asked teachers if they “would recommend teaching as a

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Winding down–

Winding down–

Deep reflections with common themes–
Initially overwhelmed with uncertainty and challenges yet persevering–
Floundering and figuring it out together–
Appreciations for collaboration, the risk taking that enables, and hopes to continue that–
Recognition of the power of a collegial team working together and of PBL in learning–

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Peter Eckstein explores 21st century learning in different types of learning environments

Peter Eckstein explores 21st century learning in different types of learning environments

PLP eCourses attract participants from across the globe to learn and grow with one another. Over the next few weeks, we will feature interviews with current and past PLP eCourse participants. We’ll ask participants to share information about themselves, why they chose PLP eCourses and what they are up to professionally.

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‘You are being rude if I’m doing all the talking’

‘You are being rude if I’m doing all the talking’

From the May issue of T.H.E. Journal . . . “It used to be in the 20th century that I considered it rude when people were texting or typing when I was presenting. Now, I consider it rude if I am the one who is doing all the talking.”

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Use digital storytelling to show us what makes you a connected learner for a chance to win an iPad 3!

Use 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

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We love teachers! Teacher Appreciation Week summer eCourse giveaway

We 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

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Periwinkle visits Beverley Acres Public School in Ontario, Canada

Periwinkle 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

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