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PLP Live 2012 Conference. Essential Ideas. Essential Ideas. 1. Educational Shift 2.Professional Development & Practice 3. Technology. Educational Shift. Old Model: Scalable Learning/Efficiency l earning a set of skills New Model: Participating in Knowledge Flows
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PLP Live2012 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
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.” (http://tpack.org/)
Technology • Discipline Specific Resource Packs: • http://activitytypes.wmwikis.net/HOME
Prominent Speakers • John SeelyBrown • Suzie Boss • Darren Cambridge • Bruce Dixon • Will Richardson • Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach • Jackie Gerstein • Jane Krauss, • Renee Moore