Notes on how teachers actually grow. We cover conferences worth attending, PD that doesn’t waste a Saturday, and the case for treating educators as career-long learners rather than topped-off skill sets.
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We’ve been watching the flow of content coming out of Illinois, and it’s obvious we’ve reached a tipping point in how conference ideas escape the ballroom and reach the world. Here’s our tongue-in-cheek checklist for the ultimate, hyper-connected conference attendee.
We’re reposting Chris’s announcement of EduCon 2.0, an education and School 2.0 conference focused on innovation and the future of schools, built around inquiry, co-creation, and networked learning, and issuing a call for proposals for interactive conversations due November 1.
We reflected on experimenting with unconference-style sessions at Learning 2.0 in Shanghai, why traditional conference formats feel increasingly out of step, and how we might bring more participatory, networked learning into events like NECC.
We’ve been pushing teachers to examine how new technologies challenge their own personal learning, yet most questions still focus on safety, tools, and delivery rather than on educators’ own learning practice. Why is it so hard for us, as educators, to put our own learning first?
One of the most challenging pieces of moving education forward in a systemic way is the “unlearning curve” that teachers and educators have to go through to see new possibilities. This post explores how our ability to publish, connect, and collaborate via the Read/Write Web demands that we unlearn traditional assumptions about expertise, classrooms, curriculum, and literacy, and offers 10 specific ideas we need to unlearn.
So we had the distinct pleasure of getting a chance to chat on and off with Marco Torres the last few days and to…
Announcing the first annual "K12 Online 2006" convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools…
The whole integrating technology discussion that many have been chronicling of late has been sticking in our craw for a couple of reasons. It’s becoming exceedingly clear that we have an outdated perception of what teachers need to be and that perhaps we should be hiring learners first, not just traditional “teachers.”