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 Today’s 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; it’s the beginning (of discussions and deeper reflection)
TECHNOLOGY Integrated with Content and Pedagogy Content TechnologyPedagogy
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.” (
TECHNOLOGY Discipline Specific Resource Packs:
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
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