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Developing a Personal. Learning Community. What Is Learning?. “Teaching is talking. Learning is listening. Knowledge is in books.”. What Is Learning?.
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Developing a Personal • Learning Community
What Is Learning? • “Teaching is talking. Learning is listening. Knowledge is in books.”
What Is Learning? • A subject is something you take and when you have had it you need not take it again. How many times have we heard, “I don’t need to know that.” or “I already took that.”
What Is Learning? • “School is the place where students come to watch teachers work.”
Troubling Data • The national dropout rate for students remains between 30%-40%.
More Troubling Data • 30%-40% of teachers leave the profession during their first two years of teaching and 50% leave by their fifth year.
Background Data • 57% of kids are media creators not just media consumers.
And This • Kids spend and average of 5 hours per day on the computer, watching tv, or talking and texting on their cells.
Changing Literacy AMONG the vicissitudes incident to life no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years—a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. -George Washington’s First Inaugural My fellow citizens, today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal. This ceremony is held in the depth of winter, but by the words we speak and the faces we show the world, we force the spring. -William Jefferson Clinton First Inaugural
Changing Literacy • r u smart bcuz i need some1 smart.
Changing Tools - Web 2.0 • YouTube • Flickr • Delicious • Blogs and Wikis • Flock
What’s Going On? • The world is changing. • Students are changing. • Literacy is changing. • Tools are changing. • How about PD?
New Forms of PD • As you shift your patterns of learning, you are blazing the trail and showing what our schools will look like in the future and what learning will look like for students.
Web 2.0 Tools for PD • Subject area blogs • All Subjects • Mathematics
RSS Feeds • RSS in Plain English
Expand Your Network • Check out the Blogrolls of the blogs you follow. • Check out the Bookmarks of those you follow. • Check out the Photos of those you follow. • Find relevant Wikis like this and this. • Find videos on TeacherTube
Social Networks • We Are Teachers • Digital Wish • Ning • Twitter
What is Twitter? • Twitter In Plain English
Sharing • Technology Activities Database
Online Learning • Formal - Accelerate U • Informal: MIT Online and Stanford Online
Partnering with Students • GenYes
Professional Organizations • NYSCATE • ISTE
Change is Part of your Journey • Where will your journey take you?
Pete Reilly • http://preilly.wordpress.com • http://edtechjourneys.pbwiki.com