Powerful Learning Practice Blog
Authorship and iAuthorship
Apple's mega announcement of their new iTunes U courses and, more interesting to me, their new iBooks Author app has many of us thinking anew about the state of textbooks and informal learning and openness and a whole bunch of other things. It's been interesting to...
Virtual Visit: What's going on in our Canadian Community
The whole Canadian community is benefiting from the discussions that have been initiated by our members. Here's a sampling! Trading Post Alan Fletcher's 'Connecting Students' discussion led to a new space called PLP Trading Post where teachers can share connections...
Online Learning Communities: Encouragement Connects Us
Technology opens the door, but it’s the support and encouragement we find in authentic learning communities that connects us. Commitment is hard. Giving up outdated but comfortable ways of doing our work is hard. We all need encouragement to stay on course. Many of us are finding that support online.
Virtual Visit: Inside our Year 2 Passion-Based Learning Community
We wanted to share with you a snippet from this rich conversation between two of our Year 2 Passion-Based Learning (PBL) Community members as they get to know each other in the teams where they will be designing a PBL unit. Cori, Love the focus you want to put on...
Transform Your Teaching One Lesson at a Time, says Jennifer Bloomingdale
In an interview about her new five-week PLP e-course, “Transformation, One Lesson at a Time,” teacher-consultant Jennifer Bloomingdale describes how she’ll work with fellow educators who are ready to bring 21st Century teaching ideas into their classroom. “To me, one lesson at a time is important because making any change in the classroom can be overwhelming,” says Jennifer. “I am a strong believer that taking little steps and being patient with yourself will eventually lead to the bigger changes you want to see.”
Knocked Out of My Orbit: Becoming a 21st Century Educator
I have long believed the role of the teacher is to ask the best questions she can, and to help her students answer them. I also believe, more than ever, in empowering students and teachers with the attitudes and skills necessary to become change-agents in their own lives. That includes leveraging the powerful tools made available by new technologies to help students and teachers become co-creators of knowledge collaboratively and online.
Power Up Student Learning with Web 2.0: Kevin Jarrett Talks about His PLP eCourse
Web 2.0 teaching expert Kevin Jarrett talks about what educators will learn in his flipped PLP e-course, “21st Century-ize Your Curriculum.” The 5-week course blends live and asynchronous learning, Jarrett says, as participants explore five major web-based tools for teaching & learning. The course “is designed with all K-12 teachers in mind. In our sessions we strive to dream up engaging, practical, scalable lessons.” (Course starts Feb. 6 and again on Mar. 26)
Join PLP at FETC 2012 in Orlando, FL
If you're like most educators, you've made a resolution to learn something new this year. But have you decided what, where and how you'll learn? If you're still pondering this resolution, I encourage you to think about joining Powerful Learning Practice (PLP) at...
Student-Led Parent Conferences: How They Work in My Primary Classroom
Our student-led parent conferences always center around each first-grader’s individual blog. Their blogs are an online portfolio that shows their learning in all of our subject areas through the year. Because this work has been posted through the term, the parents have almost all seen the work before, but the comments that their children make during the conference regarding their goals help the parent to know what specific skills we have been working on and what to watch for through the next few months.
Connected Coaching: Lani Ritter-Hall Talks about Her Popular PLP E-course
Connected coaches are skilled networkers and community builders, working in online spaces, who have a passion for appreciative inquiry and a strength based approach to improvement. Connected coaching takes advantage of new forms of collaboration; enables the building of deep and meaningful relationships through video, audio and images; encourages innovation through the possibilities that arise in diverse collaborations, and allows participants to enjoy sessions from the comforts of home.