‘You are being rude if I’m doing all the talking’
From the May issue of T.H.E. Journal . . . Read the feature story Online Communities of Practice: What Works? (THE, May...
read moreSix Interviews: Powerful Conversations with PLP Leader Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach
My friend and collaborator Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach is eminently interviewable. Whether she’s talking about passion-based teaching and learning, the secrets of successful online communities of practice, or her ideas about integrating new technologies and social media into everyday teacher and student life, her transformative vision comes through and what she has to say always has valuable take-aways for listeners. Wearing my hat as the Coordinator of Content & Capacity Building at Powerful Learning Practice, I thought it would be both...
read moreSharing What We Know about Online Communities of Practice
The Connected Online Communities of Practice project is all about increasing the quality, accessibility, and connectedness of existing and emerging online communities of practice in education. Supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the work is being carried out by a project team drawn from a six-organization partnership that’s led by the American Institutes for Research. One project focus (see more here) is to “undertake case studies of both interesting communities of practice and of individual...
read moreOur learning revolution is 100 voices strong!
Our Powerful Learning Practice group blog — Voices from the Learning Revolution — has just published its 100th post! And every one of them was written by a PLP community member! Voices from the Learning Revolution launched last March, with an introduction by PLP co-founder Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach: We’ve titled this group blog “Voices from the Learning Revolution” not because our bloggers are necessarily revolutionary leaders — but because they are leaving behind outdated practices and mindsets and shifting toward the kind...
read moreThe Value of Experienced Voices
By: Dean Shareski One of the great ideas of PLP is the use of experienced voices. These are people who have established a clear online presence and have spent considerable time connecting and sharing in much the same ways as the we hope the participants of PLP will aspire to. In the Ontario-Lower Hudson cohort Ira Socol, Scott Floyd, Tom Barrett and Susan Carter-Morgan all led groups around their areas of passion and expertise. In each case, quality discussions blossomed. One example came in Ira’s group which centered around the concepts...
read moreWhat’s Your Story?
By Dean Shareski One of my favourite lines from the Cisco video “The Human Network” is Welcome to world where people subscribe to people, not magazines. There so much about the sentence that rings true everyday for me. The ability we have to connect with each other, not simply as learners but as humans is what is so completely revolutionary that is changing the world. As we connect and share, learning often takes care of itself. The New Jersey PLP network has been talking about the personal side of learning in a discussion called...
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