A Gardener’s Approach to Learning

June 2, 2011 No Comments
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Professional Learners
We teach in a time of rapid change, when, for the first time in history, we are preparing our students for a future that we can not clearly describe.  To accomplish this, education must become more adaptive to change — and for this to happen, “learning” must become a fundamental part of what it is to teach.

Educators around the world are engaging in daily and self-directed professional development, utilizing an emerging family of  interactive and collaborative web applications.  With these tools, we are able to cultivate personal learning networks of people and information sources that help us do or jobs.

Learn how to grow your own learning network and knowledge garden by connecting with other professionals, mining the greater global conversation, and mapping out libraries of ideas and content. Topics may include blogs and micro-blogging, social networks, social media networks, RSS, and publishing and data visualization techniques.

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Many Paths to Learning
We teach in a time of rapid change, when, for the first time in history, we are preparing our students for a future that we can not clearly describe.  To accomplish this, education must become more adaptive to change — and for this to happen, “learning” must become a fundamental part of what it is to teach.

Educators around the world are engaging in daily and self-directed professional development, utilizing an emerging family of  interactive and collaborative web applications.  With these tools, we are able to cultivate personal learning networks of people and information sources that help us do or jobs.

Learn how to grow your own learning network and knowledge garden by connecting with other professionals, mining the greater global conversation, and mapping out libraries of ideas and content. Topics may include blogs and micro-blogging, social networks, social media networks, RSS, and publishing and data visualization techniques.

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9/1/11 – GA Curriculum & Instructional Supervisors, Athens, Ga.

I’m happy to be back in Athens again, and especially enjoyed visiting Taste of India once again.  The buttered chicken and garlic naan are wonderful.  I’m also happy to be back here with education leaders from Georgia once again.  This will be a long day with lots of different topics, all aimed at learning.  So perhaps you should be come GACLS?

This page will link to resources related to the first part of my presentation, Harnessing the Perfect Storm (or Out Students • Our Worlds).  My presentations go be lots of names. Other presentations have their resources at other parts of this web site.  They are and can be found at:

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