PLP LIVE 2012 CONFERENCE

Essential Ideas

ESSENTIAL IDEAS
1. Educational Shift

2.Professional Development & Practice

3. Technology

EDUCATIONAL SHIFT
Old Model: Scalable Learning/Efficiency
learning a set of skills

New Model: Participating in Knowledge Flows

learning how to learn and participate in knowledge flows

EDUCATIONAL SHIFT
Todays students live in a multimodal world

Students learn in three spheres:

1. Academic 2. Interest Driven 3. Peer Culture

Students build context and content

EDUCATIONAL SHIFT
Students construct new contexts
1. Remixing existing structures into something NEW Ex) Movie: students edit sound track, saturation, images Alters not only what you see but what it means

EDUCATIONAL SHIFTS
Play= progenitor of culture and innovation
Rooted in Montessori and Dewey

Through play, students find new ideas/solutions/epiphanies

In world of play, students can fail until getting it right

EDUCATIONAL SHIFTS
In a world of constant change, modern students must blend epistemologies

Knowing

Making

Playing

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

1. Teacher= Mentor/Coach/Facilitator 2. Students produce more content than YOU 3. Class= OPEN PORTAL to the world 4. Amplify Students Interests & Voices 5. Connected

Educators= Leaders of Social Learning

Utilize Local/ Global Resources and Experts Create Authentic Learning Experiences & Opportunities

TECHNOLOGY
Promotes culture of continuous inquiry

Connects students to global community

Enables students to publish to the world

Publishing no longer the end; its the beginning
(of discussions and deeper reflection)

TECHNOLOGY
Integrated with Content and Pedagogy

Content

Pedagogy

Technology

TECHNOLOGY
College of William & Mary: T-PACK
Technology Pedagogical Content Knowledge

attempts to identify the nature of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge.

(http://tpack.org/)

TECHNOLOGY
Discipline Specific Resource Packs:

http://activitytypes.wmwikis.net/HOME

SAMPLE: SCIENCE

SAMPLE: ENGLISH

SAMPLE: HUMANITIES

SAMPLE: MATH

SAMPLE: LANGUAGE

PROMINENT SPEAKERS
John Seely Brown Suzie Boss Darren Cambridge Bruce Dixon Will Richardson Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Jackie Gerstein Jane Krauss,

Renee Moore

NOTABLE SITES:
HTTP://TEACHERLEADERS.TYPEPAD.COM/TEACHMOORE/

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