Powerful Learning Practice Blog
PLP Network at FETC 2013
We will soon be making our way to Florida for the 2013 FETC conference. Will you be there? Be sure to visit the PLP booth and say hello! You’ll find our booth number, expo hours, and session info below. You can read about our 2012 FETC experience here. A great time was had by all, and we expect this year will be even better.
Using (and not using) iPads to teach reading
It’s Arwen Kuttner’s first year with iPads and her first year as a reading support teacher in second grade. Can the iPads help her struggling readers? When it comes to letters and sounds, she’s not willing to trade her multisensory learning techniques for a digital tablet. But creation-based apps could help deepen reading comprehension. “It’s up to me,” she writes, “to know when to use the iPads and when not to, in order to keep learning effective and meaningful.”
Join us for a #plpnetwork chat about PBL
Passion Based Learning? Project Based Learning? Problem based learning? Maybe you’re not sure what PBL is or how to make it work in your classroom. Or perhaps you’ve been experimenting with PBL and you’re not convinced that you’re doing it “right.” Let’s use this chat to share our tips for success both with the PLP community and beyond. If you are a PBL teacher please come help us dispel the myths.
Free webinar: Australian Connected Learner Info Session
We are starting a Connected Learner ‘Lite’ just for Australian educators, with webinars in your time zones, and we want you to join this learning experience!
Top Tweets from the Action Research Chat
If you couldn’t make it to last Wednesday’s AISI Action research twitter chat, you missed out on a buffet of thought-provoking conversation and inspiration. We wrapped up a few leftovers for you; just a sampling of the some of the top tweets from evening. Enjoy!
Collaborative Twitter Chat on Action Research
On Wednesday night, January 16, the AISI Network held the first of many to come Twitter hashtag driven chats. The topic for their first Twitter chat was Action Research as an Iterative Process. My goal, as the moderator, was two-fold. I wanted to expose our network to...
User-Generated Learning: A Must-Do for School Leaders Today
Like teachers, school leaders today must move beyond sit-and-get PD and take charge of their own professional growth. Elementary principal and Connected Principals contributor Lyn Hilt says Kristen Swanson’s new book, Professional Learning in the Digital Age, “provides practical, easy-to-follow steps towards becoming an effective user-generated learner.”
Join us for a Twitter Chat about Action Research: Wednesday, January 16th
The action research process can help you understand what is happening in your classroom and identify changes that improve teaching and learning. Join us for a Twitter chat where we talk about Action Research as an Iterative Process.
Why Problem-Based Learning Is Better
For generations, we have almost completely bypassed the development of true problem solving skills in our curricula, avoiding the hard questions “at the very end of the textbook chapter.” Instructional technology director Tim Holt makes the case that Problem-Based (not project-based) Learning can go a long way to address the deficit.
Free webinars: PLP Live Chat & Info Session
In the coming weeks, join us for a free, one-hour, live webinar where you’ll learn all about Powerful Learning Practice. Talk with Powerful Learning Practice CEO and co-founder Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach as well as other PLP staff members. Find out who we are, what we believe, what’s in store for 2013, and how you can get involved. Ask your questions and get some answers.