As with my previous posts from NECC, please forgive typos, grammar, etc. These are notes from the sessions and are not intended for anything other than information. My plan is to come back, later, and “clean them up” and provide clarification, but who knows when I’ll find time for that!

Enjoy!

Presenters:

Will Richardson (http://weblogg-ed.com/)(@willrich45)
Cheryl Nussbaum-Beach
21st Century Learning – Here Comes Learning – check out Wiki

How learning looks different today

Important to be Learners, not teachers, first

YouTube video – Help with Bow drill set – example – Richardson
-Wasn’t afraid to not know something
-Showed what he did know and then asked for help – made it easy to teach him
-Didn’t ask teachers/parents – went to Web 2.0 forlearning
-Asked for feedback – plz, plz, plz – b/c it’s on YouTube there’s a large number of people who can help him
-Very comfortable with technology
-No name, no face – privacy
-How did he know he would get a response? Intriguing question
-Learning environments are changing

Connecting and Community – Cheryl
-New teachers – afraid to ask questions within their schools – fear of it being evaluative
-set up virtual community for PLN – Cheryl set up online mentors – ENDAPT – for new teachers
-found mentors did not lead the learning – everyone taught each other – virtual community of practice
-can learn and grow without feeling like they are being judged

-21st Century Learners Project — http://abpc21.org
-funded through grants (P21?)
-21st Century Learner’s Goals
-insight from project “necessity for change” – professional development needs to be centered around managing change

Richardson
-can’t look at classrooms the same way as we have in the past
-”Here Comes Everybody” – book recommendation
-Importance of forming groups – techtonic shift
-we are not fully aware of what is occurring right now – Iran and Twitter is example – can no longer be traditional journalist
-”Smart Moms” – another good book recommendation
-Connect around the tools
-Orbitz response to twitter complaint – called him!
-NCTE – Definition of 21st Century Literacies – much more complex today
-We form groups around what we write(Wikipedia) and what we read(Diigo – with comments!)

-kids moving into hyper connective and hyper transparent world – foreign to us – kids ARE using these technologies
-using them to socialize – MacArthur study – must read
-connecting to people they do and do not know
-that is a GOOD thing – millions of potential teachers for our kids – doing it without us because we don’t have the same type of context for learning in this world right now
-Some kids have no adults teaching them to use technology effectively for learning
-teachers need to be learners in this context, too – they have to connect, too

Cheryl
-Education operates on deficit based model, not strength based model
-ask them – what do YOU want to accomplish, learn, etc.
-from classroom to community structure
-teachers as colearners
-connecting and collaborating – for professional development
-What works for adults – job embedded learning – like getting personal recognition
-The Medici Effect – more suggested reading
-Professional Development – team approach – with learning communities – online ones!
-Different from the workshop driven approach
-Community Definition – from Wikipedia
-Communities of Practice – Community instigator/leader – one of the top 10 jobs in the next 10 years
-need to evolve over time
-product is co-created and collaborative with opportunities for feedback and ownership
-The Scaling Framework (From Microsoft?)
-PLP Delivery Model – Powerful Learning Practice – built on professional learning teams

Case Studies
Archdioces of Philadelphia – Nancy (@ncara)
-Technology Plan
-Team approach to putting together the plan – used online tools, too, (Twitter, Delicious, Ning)
-”surprised to find a social network could turn in to a professional network”

One to One program – Professional development for it
-Using PLP professional development worked better

Back to Will
-It’s all about being able to build a fire – figure out how to get your questions answered by being a global learner
-expansive and personalized
-Revolution isn’t online learning, it’s personalized learning
-Be Learners first, teachers second