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Are Personal Learning Networks the Key to Keeping Teachers?

Edsurge

Putting the ‘Person’ in Personal Learning Networks While educators building communities to learn and share ideas isn’t new, today’s personal learning networks (PLNs) offer educators the chance to hone their focus and build their practice in specific areas of professional development.

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Build Your Personal Learning Network #WTI15

Reading By Example

My topic was how to get started in building one’s personal learning network. My concurrent sessions were for secondary teachers as the audience. There were positives, but it seemed like schoolwide professional learning wasn’t enough for the teachers attending. Personal Learning Networks.

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Sound Advice on Personalized Learning from Six Regional Incubators

Edsurge

That’s the bottom line and big payoff for listening to this six-podcast series on personalized learning from The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. They recommend seeking out disengaged and underserved students to explore the extent to which those groups can be re-engaged and better served with personalized strategies.

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It's Elementary When it Comes to #EdTech

A Principal's Reflections

Superintendent Scott Rocco provided me with a great opportunity to not only work with teachers in his district, but to also push me outside my comfort zone, which has always been secondary education. To accomplish this I had to quickly familiarize myself with some new tools. I had a few in my toolbox, but needed more.

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#Supermuch teaching in the classroom and online

The CoolCatTeacher

We discuss what going to the next level in the classroom and in online learning means both at the secondary and college level. I’ve been published in Leading and Learning with Technology , and I’m currently co-authoring a book on how teachers can develop a personal learning network using social media and other digital tools.

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The DLP Strategy Menu

Digital Promise

We built this tool based on one key belief: teaching and learning is primary, technology tools are secondary. For the more adventurous, you can search YouTube for tutorials on a particular app or reach out to your personal learning network (i.e., “Has

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10 Ways to Grow as a Pedagogical Leader

A Principal's Reflections

Creating or further developing a Personal Learning Network (PLN) is also essential to access 24/7 ideas, strategies, feedback, resources, and support. For example, elementary will conduct walks in secondary to provide feedback and vice versa. We then share collective insight while processing the feedback.