21st Century Learning

21st Century Learning #99
Sarah Hanawald - Designing Games and Activities for Faculty Professional Development
April 2, 2009

Sarah Hanawald from Greensboro Day School and the Literacy, Technology, and Learning blog joined us this week.  We discussed desiging games and simulations for faculty professional development around using social learning tools.

What are your thoughts about this?  How would you design a game for faculty to learn how to participate in online communities? 

* Photo from: Vizzzual-dot-com

21st Century Learning #98
Designing an Open Online Teacher Academy  -- Part 2
March 19, 2009

Week 2 of figuring out how to design an online teacher academy. 

We're starting to nail down a goal for this academy: 

The goal of this experience is to:
1. Teach online tools in the context of teaching and learning
2. Creating online community to model and sustain this learning

 *Please not that these are in draft form.

This online teacher academy starts by walking its participants through some basic online tools while building a community, and creates a structure for the participants to create and document new work thus leaving a legacy for the next generation of learners. 

With these goals and constructs, where do you see this going?  Leave us a comment here or over at the ISENet ning.

Photo from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jiscinfonet/405736372/

21st Century Learning #97
Designing an open, web 2.0, personal learning network, online community building, project for teachers
March 12, 2009

21st Century Learning #96
Social Networks and Media in Schools with Richard Kassissieh
February 26, 2009

Interested in Social Networks and Social Media?  How are they effecting schools?  How do we start to explore social media and networking in schools?  What are great examples of using social media inside and outside the classroom?

This and more in this conversation with Richard Kassissieh. 

21st Century Learning #95

Wendy Drexler on the Networked Student

February 12, 2009

Are your students collecting RSS feeds in Google Reader, bookmarking sites as a group in Delicious, blogging, interviewing content area experts they found through Google Scholar, and teaching the section of the course for which they are responsible?  Wendy Drexler's students are doing all of this.  This is a must listen for those of us who dream of the day when education is a more active, accountable process for students and teachers.