Learning is Change

How a conference should be run: #ipdx14

I am so impressed by the way in which this page, and the conference itself is laid out. Special hat tip to Darren Hudgins for creating an amazing experience for all of his teachers and leaders.

Room to Grow

Room to Grow When Do Educators Get Time? As technology develops it is important for educators to regularly reflect on their practice. Why, then, are educators so often granted so little time to focus on this relationship? We believe that if educators are given the space to expand their understanding of technology in education, they will use effective pedagogy and transformational tools to fundamentally change their environment. Room To Grow, a collaborative space based on the User-Generated Learning model, helps educators harness instructional strategies to suit their professional needs.

I will end up inviting many of you directly to this event, but I wanted those of you that are interested to get a…

 

I will end up inviting many of you directly to this event, but I wanted those of you that are interested to get a heads up. I’m truly excited to come back to this topic for one of our roundtables. Please add your name to the planning document so we can start the collaboration there if you want to be on the roundtable itself or just want to be a viewer. 

http://bit.ly/shiftroundtable

Talk to you all soon!

Originally shared by Ben Wilkoff

Planning Doc: http://bit.ly/shiftroundtable

This is going to be an amazing roundtable on how we are Actually Shifting Practice using badges for Professional Learning. This is a follow up to our previous roundtable on Badges for Learning (http://bit.ly/badgesroundtable).

Roundtable purpose:

This roundtable will help to identify the ways in which we can use Outcome-based Badges (rather than badging for seat-time) to shift practice for teachers and leaders.

Roundtable audience:

Teachers and Leaders who are looking to create and/or use a badging system within professional learning environments

Organizations who are looking to help teachers and leaders to create micro-credentials for professional learning

Essential Questions:

How do we eliminate badges for seat-time?

What are the tools to implement badges for professional learning?

What are the models for professional learning that are best supported by badges?

What does the “back of the badge” look like for adult learners?

How does self-reflection become a part of a badging system?

Thank you to everyone that participated in this event.

 

Thank you to everyone that participated in this event. The collaborative document is now completely filled with valuable insights and resources for further exploration. Here is how you can continue the conversation.

1. Continue to comment on and add to the collaborative document:   http://bit.ly/shiftroundtable

2. Reflect upon this session and submit for a badge on P2PU: http://badges.p2pu.org/en/badge/view/334/

3. Join the Blend-Tastic Bombastic Personalized PD community of practice: https://plus.google.com/communities/112568347126839900241

This is going to be an amazing roundtable on how we are Actually Shifting Practice using badges for Professional Learning. This is a follow up to our previous roundtable on Badges for Learning (http://bit.ly/badgesroundtable).

Roundtable purpose:

This roundtable will help to identify the ways in which we can use Outcome-based Badges (rather than badging for seat-time) to shift practice for teachers and leaders.

Roundtable audience:

Teachers and Leaders who are looking to create and/or use a badging system within professional learning environments

Organizations who are looking to help teachers and leaders to create micro-credentials for professional learning

Essential Questions:

How do we eliminate badges for seat-time?

What are the tools to implement badges for professional learning?

What are the models for professional learning that are best supported by badges?

What does the “back of the badge” look like for adult learners?

How does self-reflection become a part of a badging system?

Thank you to everyone that participated in this event. The collaborative document is now completely filled with…

Thank you to everyone that participated in this event. The collaborative document is now completely filled with valuable insights and resources for further exploration. Here is how you can continue the conversation.

1. Continue to comment on and add to the collaborative document:   http://bit.ly/shiftroundtable

2. Reflect upon this session and submit for a badge on P2PU: http://badges.p2pu.org/en/badge/view/334/

3. Join the Blend-Tastic Bombastic Personalized PD community of practice: https://plus.google.com/communities/112568347126839900241

This is going to be an amazing roundtable on how we are Actually Shifting Practice using badges for Professional Learning. This is a follow up to our previous roundtable on Badges for Learning (http://bit.ly/badgesroundtable).

Roundtable purpose:

This roundtable will help to identify the ways in which we can use Outcome-based Badges (rather than badging for seat-time) to shift practice for teachers and leaders.

Roundtable audience:

Teachers and Leaders who are looking to create and/or use a badging system within professional learning environments

Organizations who are looking to help teachers and leaders to create micro-credentials for professional learning

Essential Questions:

How do we eliminate badges for seat-time?

What are the tools to implement badges for professional learning?

What are the models for professional learning that are best supported by badges?

What does the “back of the badge” look like for adult learners?

How does self-reflection become a part of a badging system?

What Types Of Fear Are Legitimate?

In this podcast episode, I tackle all of the types of fear that I am seeing around my work and the work of those I am collaborating with.

I discuss the fear of collaborating from within the car, the fear of letting teachers and leaders experience struggle, and the fear of learning as something other than an event.

What types of fear are you encountering? How are you helping others to not be afraid?

What Types Of Fear Are Legitimate?

What I'm Learning: Fed-Ex Days in your school

While I am more generally familiar with the topic, I really like how this one principal talks about individualized PD for and by her teachers. I also love the last question of this paragraph: “Don’t unique individuals deserve individualized professional development?”

Yes. Yes they do.

Professional development by you, for you.

Building-level administrators have to be given the autonomy to plan, implement and facilitate learning for their teachers in a way that empowers their teachers as learners. Without that freedom, (unless it’s orchestrated by the folks at the top, and to be fair, in some places, it is), this type of day doesn’t happen. In the years that followed, our district moved towards a standardized-approach for inservice days. Each elementary building follows a common professional development schedule built around district initiatives. While certainly this protocol serves to help the three buildings become more aligned in their efforts and open the lines of communication among teachers and grade levels, it doesn’t exactly support initiatives that address the unique needs of a building (or a particular set of teachers, like the specialists). And we all know that every school and the teachers within have a special culture, learning needs, and personalities. Don’t unique individuals deserve individualized professional development?

Chrome as Assistive Technology

This is an amazing resource for how Google Chrome can be used to help special needs students to take full advantage of the tools at their disposal. 

Chrome Toolbox

This collaborative space was created to celebrate the many Apps and Extensions made by developers which serve the accessibility needs of individuals with disabilities. Although Google already highlights accessibility features built into the Chrome browser or through add-ons, we have collected numerous other free tools that we feel further contribute to that mission. To this end, we have developed this searchable resource to locate tools that serve the particular challenges anyone might face while working in Chrome. On the right, you will find more information about this site, including definitions of terms and more information about the Chrome browser and assistive technology.