Fantastic kickoffs, PLPeeps!
PLP leaders Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson couldn’t be more excited after rolling out eight successful face-to-face kickoff events for PLP Communities and launching our first PLP Virtual Academy. One thing’s for sure: We’ve brought together an energized group of educators ready to empower themselves and their students as connected 21st century learners. Read on! ADVIS/AIMS Community The ADVIS PLP Kickoff event took place September 20 at The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, N.J., and The AIMS PLP Kickoff event...
read moreReflecting and moving forward
Winding down and yet still pumped up, some educators from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia community reflect with me upon our 8 month journey together into connected learning, upon working with their teams as critical friends, upon being a fellow, upon growing and learning, upon the often roller coaster ride that makes Powerful Learning Practice PLP. The caring, compassionate educators from the Archdiocese became connected learners as we discussed difficult issues around digital citizenship in our online community of practice; they grappled...
read moreFor Archdiocese, Blended Learning Works
For Mary Rochford, Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, the necessity for change in education is obvious. And even if she isn’t the most “tech-savvy,” she relies on her Director of Technology Nancy Caramanico to carry out her vision. “We are all in this together,” she said. “We need to be better at connecting and collaborating. I am seeing the leaps the world is taking, and they are not minor leaps. We need to take advantage of opportunities, and bring our students in it, or we will find ourselves being...
read moreWhat Does Being a 21st Century Learner Mean?
Cross-posted on TechConnects By Nancy Caramanico The video below was created at Archbishop Ryan High School in Philadelphia. Initiatives there have focused on created 21st Century Learning Environments enriched by technology and new learning strategies. Administrators report that the key to success has been a combination of factors. Surely, as offered in the Nets -A, the various pieces working together make the right kind of difference. Principal Helen Chaykowsky says technology integration has occurred‘teacher to teacher’....
read moreFiguring it out together
First, taking time for selfish personal professional learning– Then an Elluminate session with Sheryl exhorting teachers to 21st centuryize learning in their classrooms– Add to that an “experienced” voice in the virtual community sharing a new podcasting tool– And we can follow an Archidocese of Philadelphia Powerful Learning Practice member on her learning journey with her students– Alissa DeVito, St. Joseph, St. Robert School , describes how her lesson evolved. This was a unit on “Human Interest...
read moreGoing the distance
More than 3 months into the messy learning of PLP– Chris Harbeck, experienced voice, introducing AudioBoo– And Archdiocese community members reflecting– Marie Orzechowski Listen! Alissa DeVito Listen! Experimenting– Reflecting on where we’ve been– Using what’s been learned and sharing– Marian O’Brien “PLP has clearly opened my eyes as to what I don’t know. It’s also made me realize that I need to not only know but somehow I need to go the distance and figure out how to USE...
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