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The National Writing Project, through its Digital Is initiative, is exploring the core design and learning principles of Connected Learning. We invite your participation.
This August, in connection with Connected Educator Month and Connected Learning TV, NWP teacher leaders will join a series...
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The National Research Council (NRC) has released a new report on 21st century skills in the classroom and work environments. From the NRC:
Business, political, and educational leaders are increasingly asking schools to integrate development of skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, and...
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I developed this map as a way to celebrated The Connected Educator month, and it is part of a larger comic/video that I am working on.
-Kevin
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The term 21st century classroom is utilized a lot now. Teachers and Schools alike are making steps towards a 21st century classroom. The steps may be small, (perhaps a crawl) or big; nevertheless, classrooms are edging towards a change. I think there can be some confusion on what that...
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(This is reposted from a book review I had done at my blog. I figure this month's celebration of Connected Educators made it a good time to revisit this wonderful book.)
It says a lot about a book when the last line is “Choose to be powerful.”
So ends The Connected Learner: Learning and...
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My brain has been swirling around a lot of 21st century learning this past week and I know the only to keep my thoughts straight is to write about it. There is no doubt social media is becoming more and more apparent in the classroom. Though school policies may ban it from districts,...
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In a recent blog post at DMLcentral, Liz Losh profiled the work of UC San Diego Ethnic Studies professor Wayne Yang. Yang asks the students of his Worldmaking course at UCSD's Sixth College to present their culminating research project in graphic novel format. The interdisciplinary course anaylzes...
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Scholars interested in the affordances, uses and risks of social media for youth might be interested in YOUTH 2.0: CONNECTING, SHARING AND EMPOWERING?, a conference planned for March 20th – 22nd 2013 in Antwerp, Belgium
UCSIA & MIOS, University of Antwerp, have announced the organisation...
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The National Writing Project is a partner in Connected Educator Month, launching in August 2012. Connected Educator Month is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education, focused on connecting educators with online communities and learning networks.
Visit the Connected Educator Month website...
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Traci Gardner, who has blogged her and blogs at Bedford Bits, has been working through ways to explore connected learning within the confines of an academic writing course. She's working out an idea over there; here's a taste:
Connecting with Personal ArtifactsBedford Bits: Ideas for Teaching...
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Six months ago, I was so proud of myself for having eschewed Twitter for so long. As someone who was hesitant to create a Facebook page (but finally did), I made a solemn pledge that my digital social network would not go beyond that. After all, I'm too old to Tweet, and don't only famous people...
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An announcement that Skillshare would be on the Future of Education series reminded me to think more about Skillshare (which is an online platform for peer learning like P2PU). It is a project that aims to democratize learning by enabling "anyone to learn anything from anyone,...
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Connected Learning’s most recent webcast features Mark Surman, Executive Director at Mozilla, and members of the Mozilla Open Bages project, Carla Casilli and Doug Belshaw, along with Jon Worona and Elizabeth Dill who are both librarians. Howard Rheingold serves as the moderator. You can view the...
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In March 2012, my colleague Chris Fosen and I attended and presented at SXSWedu. Now that it is summer, I have some time to collect my notes and share thoughts with the Digital Is community. You may also be interested in submitting your ideas, classroom practices, or research for a SXSWedu panel...
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I have been sitting in front of the computer for weeks and weeks now trying to get my thoughts down. How do I introduce my work on transformation? How do I communicate my motivation to change education for the better... to a more equitable system that gets quality work accomplished?
And I realized...
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John Jones, assistant professor of professional writing and editing at West Virginia University, presents some fascinating thoughts about the changing nature of writing in his summer blog posts at DMLcentral.
In "The Challenge of Teaching Networked Writing," Jones argues that the daily...
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A Shared Reflection from Gail Desler & Natalie Bernasconi
Good things are bound to happen when National Writing Project teachers have an opportunity to team up and attend a 2-week technology institute (as part of a year-long program), in a state-of-the-art setting, with all expenses...
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Those of you familiar with Common Sense Media may have heard some buzz in social networks recently about their new Learning Ratings Initiative for Digital Media. For many years now, Common Sense Media has been the go-to source for parents and families to find unbiased ratings and reviews of all...
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It's summertime. It's the time when many people head off to the coolness of a swimming pool to beat the heat. I, too, feel like taking a plunge, but it won't involve chlorine. I'm planning on diving into flipped learning - or at least getting my feet wet.
When I first was...
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All my writing is digital: my prewriting for thinking and drafting and revising. Very rarely do I use pen and paper anymore. I am currently revising my NaNoWriMo novel. Still. In Google Docs. I write about the process at my blog for writing teachers, Wordsmith Agora. This seems a good time to...
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