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Making Learning Connected is a massively open online collaboration (mooc) established to spark making, learning and sharing by educators throughout the summer of 2013. Framed by the principles of Connected Learning, participants will tap into their own passions and interests while exploring...
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. (May 24, 2013) – More than 115 Bridgeport students in grades 8 through 12 bolstered writing skills and considered life beyond high school at Writing Our Lives–Bridgeport, a May 21 workshop at Fairfield University organized by the campus-based Connecticut Writing Project–Fairfield (...
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A series of three webinars, entitled Maker Bridge, was kicked off yesterday. The series is supported by the Nominet Trust - in collaboration with the MacArthur Foundation, as part of their involvement in Make Things Do Stuff. Below is the video archive of that first webinar.
From the Maker Bridge...
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The Alliance for Excellent EducationInvites You to Attend a Webinar on
A Dive Into Connected Learning
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. (ET)
PanelistsElyse Eidman-Aadahl, PhD, Director of National Programs and Site Development,National Writing ProjectMizuko “Mimi” Ito, PhD,...
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What do you see here?
This morning I sent my son off to school to face a week of K-Prep testing. Five straight days of filling in bubble sheets for hours. And as if that was not bad enough, after four days of multiple-choice tests on the fifth day he and his classmates will spend the day completing...
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TL;DR version: What are the attitudes and aptitudes used by "experts" as we collaborate while "making" content online? How can this understanding of these knowledge, skills, and dispositions be used to inform pedagogy when we have students write, "make", or collaboratively construct online content...
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Connecticut Writing Project–Fairfield to host Bridgeport students for daylong writing conference at Fairfield University
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (May 3, 2013) – The Connecticut Writing Project–Fairfield (CWP), based at Fairfield University, will welcome more than 100 Bridgeport youth in grades 8...
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I am wrapping up a pretty awesome semester as a college writing teacher and a terrific year as the director of a National Writing Project site. Yesterday as I sat in a computer lab watching my Peer Writers lead sessions for our Super Saturday Writing Camp in between stints of reading my...
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I want to share my love affair with six-word stories with you today. I have shared some of the ways I use six-word memoirs or six-word stories in my classroom before but those ideas are only the tip of the iceberg.
Smith Magazine started the six-word memoir movement in 2006 by...
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A friend challenged us to create video tutorials on using some the Mozilla Webmaker tools, so I created this screencast of using Popcorn to remix the Digital Is animation video....
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(This is pulled from my blog)
The other day, a companion in the Teach the Web MOOC shared out a feature in Firefox that I didn’t even know existed. It allows you to get a 3D view of a website. Check out these two screenshots that I took of my blog site:
What is amazing is that this tool is right...
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TL;DR version: By employing a critical literacy perspective to "making" and Connected Learning, teachers and students can engage in activism & cyberactivism for the purposes of understanding and critiquing societal issues.
In the second week of the Mozilla #...
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Originally posted on KQED Edspace.
As the immigration reform bill begins to consume lawmakers in Washington in the coming months, students around the country had a head start to debate the issue online. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the lead Democratic negotiator, explains, "The American...
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The Communications Director for my school district contacted me last week. She had Googled my name (while writing a press release for the superintendent) and was very intrigued by a link that appeared from the Digital Is website: On Becoming Change Writers, a reflective piece I co-authored on...
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New Connected Learning Monthly Series Starts May 2013: Teens and the Future of Libraries with YALSA
Connected Learning TV is launching a new series where we'll take a month at a time to focus on connected learning communities, themes, and topics.
In May, join us and the Young Adult Library Services...
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Recently William Zhou asked “why teach” on Edudemic and I decided this week’s blog post would be my response to that question. It is a good question to ask. Recent years have been tough for the teaching profession and teachers are leaving the profession in droves. Some like...
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As I noted last week (Why Writing Studio?), I am devotee of writing workshop and a tremendous fan of Peter Elbow, but then as a National Writing Project teacher this is programmed into my pedagogy. I recently read an article in Wired magazine,Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops, which...
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A few weeks ago, for Digital Learning Day, Fox News (with anchor John Roberts) came to my school to interview me and some students, and a parent of one my students, about our teaching of digital citizenship with sixth graders. It is part of a larger Fox News feature about data mining and privacy...
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My students and I love this photo by Joseph Morales (a retired teacher who has been working with us) of Tree Swallows on a box that students built with Rocking The Boat and installed in Soundview Park in the Bronx.
Notice how the conversations are growing:
http://youthvoices.net/discussion/tree-...
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This Wednesday, April 17, at 9PM ET/6PM PT.
Educators from the Detroit Future Schools program will share their experiences attempting to re-invent the practice and purpose of education. They will offer transformative processes that they use in classrooms along with student-generated media...
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