Powerful Learning Practice Blog
Connected PD on a (Zero) Budget
Teachers are hungry for professional learning but their eyes are often bigger than their pocketbooks when it comes to professional conferences in distant cities and pricey online courses. Connected educators can feed themselves, says Becky Bair, who’s not busting the bank this summer but staying home with Twitter and Google Reader.
Blogging is the New Persuasive Essay
I think blogging is the new persuasive essay. If we’re trying to prepare our students to think critically and argue well, they need to be able to blog. It allows for interaction. It allows for ideas to be tested. And the best posts anywhere in cyberspace tend to have a point that can be argued.
Save the date: PLP Live – Inspire. Collaborate. Shift.
Save the Date Friday, September 28, 2012 Philadelphia Join us for PLP Live: Inspire. Collaborate. Shift. A full-day conference where you'll experience: Inspiration from top names in education such as John Seely Brown, Bruce Dixon, Will Richardson, Sheryl...
Join PLP at ISTE 2012 in San Diego, CA
Powerful Learning Practice is participating in ISTE’s 33rd Annual Conference in San Diego, Ca. Learn where to meet up with PLP staff and other PLPeeps in this blog.
My Students Reflect on Norway's Connected-Testing Pilot
After accessing the Internet for the first time during a high-stakes exam, one Norway student wrote: “I felt more secure on my facts and it made it so much easier for me to write my paper. I hope that in the future it will be normal to use the internet during the exam because you can support your arguments with facts you find from reliable sources. The future is technology, and we should be able to use what we can to prove what we are able to do!”
Meet Our Advisory Board: Wendy Drexler
As our Powerful Learning Practice Network grows, we are doing some amazing things with communities of practice, e-learning, raising the voices of forward-looking practitioners, and more. With these and other PLP initiatives underway, we felt it was time to establish an advisory board to help us keep our work out on the edge of professional learning in the 21st century. In this interview, you’ll learn more about Wendy Drexler.
A year in the life of a PLPeep – professional learning for the 21st Century
We've seen the future! We gazed into our crystal ball, and saw the next year of your life - chock full of professional learning, community and network building, action research, designing your own 21st Century curriculum, and more! Now, all you have to do to make it...
Reading the Web: Bud Hunt talks about his new PLP eCourse
This summer, Bud Hunt will introduce a new five-week eCourse to Powerful Learning Practice’s lineup. He will introduce and expand educators’ knowledge on what it means to ‘Read the Web’. In this interview, Bud describes the value of his five-week eCourse.
Dear Hollywood: School Doesn't Look Like This
Everything we hope and expect our classrooms to be — and our students to be doing — is nowhere to be found on episodic television or in the cinema. Look hard for any type of technology being used in the classrooms portrayed on television today. It’s pretty much not there. Teachers are still portrayed as sages on the stage, students still stuck in neat rows. It’s time to demand a change!
Creating a culture of collaboration at The Friends School of Baltimore
We started with the idea of developing a culture of collaboration, and then saw the value of being a connected learner and merged the two ideas. Collaboration has been identified as a core element of the Teaching and Learning Paradigm at Friends School. Being learners ourselves helped us develop empathy for others who are just beginning this journey, and we wanted to help others see the value in developing a PLN, and then see how this would increase our ability to collaborate.