CoLearners

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Resources: The Perfect Storm Wiki Handouts for Converging Conditions with bibliography, presentation visuals, and narrative. Wiki Handouts for “‘Native’ Information Experiences“ with bibliography, visuals, and concept map. Wiki handouts for contemporary literacy, with bibliography, visuals, and narrative. 21st Century Learning Wiki handouts Planning Concept Map A Gardener’s Approach to Learning, a blog entry Connectivism, from George Seimens Backchannel Transcript

What I Just Learned: Pearltrees The Site Tutorial Video Interview with Robert Scoble ReadWrite Web blog post

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It is truly a privaledge to be back in the Pittsburgh area, working with educators in Pennsylvania.  We are all trying desperately to retool our classrooms, our teaching styles, and the learning experiences of our students, but few places have higher expectations and are being watched more than Pennsylvania.

We find ourselves in a perfect storm of converging conditions.  We are, for the first time in history, preparing our students for a future we can not clearly describe.  Our students are walking into our classrooms out of an information experience and with learning skills that many of us can barely identify with or even imagine.  ..and we are working within a brand new and dynamic information environment based not on the innovations of the 15th century, but on the very latest in technologies and techniques that are, sometimes, only months old.

The Concept Map I used to plan this workshop (xMind).

It is a tough time to be an educator.  It is also, perhaps, the most exciting time ever to be a teacher.  We are being pressured, not be new boundaries, but by opportunities.  We’re rethinking what our students need to be learning and how they need to learn it.  We’re working with students who are already more (not fully) information literate than any gen ever, and this new information environment seems engineered for learning.

May hat’s off to you for attending this workshop.

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