New School Year – New PD Plan
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. ― Henry Ford Professional development strategies should always be in a constant state of refinement. Just as we are called as teachers to follow the child, and differentiate our strategies to meet their needs — regularly checking in to gauge…
Here’s What I Meant To Say (Adventures in 140 characters or less)
Twitter is a funny place. The character limitation — which started out as a mobile text message limitation (back when T9 was a thing, no phone had a keyboard, and writing more than 140 characters was both a functional limitation and an exhausting exercise) — is now this arbitrary cap that forces brevity while it…
It IS About Technology
There is a saying, that it’s not about the technology; it’s about the pedagogy. A statement like this is usually followed by a statement regarding how good teaching can happen without technology, and inquiry can happen without technology. I’m not contesting these last two ideas. I will acknowledge that good teaching and good inquiry can…
Transformation Components Revised
I’ve been making some revisions to the initial thinking around our Tranformation Components. After an initial year of exploring different PD components in service of Transforming Learning Everywhere, a few changes are necessary. Digital Citizenship isn’t a separate component: it is a key piece in the character building elements required to create a safe and…
Poem in 3 Dimensions
a dot-matrix version of what the future holds soon to be nostalgic novelty a guided turtle filmstrip tones interactive boards hidden by chart paper costs / benefit and the temptation of shiny things rendered in filament the edtech wallet opens @acampbell99 and I have been discussion 3D printers on the Twitters. It’s a fascinating technology…
Week 3: Components of a Transformed Learning Environment
The shift to a “Technology-Accelerated” (Fullan) inquiry-based learning environment requires personalized, job-embedded professional development opportunities that meet the teachers where they are, rather than large group presentations that fail to differentiate for the broad spectrum of adoption seen within our classrooms. Within each one of these six pillar components there exists a continuum of adoption…