PLP is a professional development model that immerses educators into environments and practices that allow them to learn and own the literacies of 21st Century learning and teaching.
Will Richardson and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach will be hosting an informational session to provide further information and gauge interest in bringing this model to Wisconsin in 2009-2010. We’ll be meeting online in Elluminate. Simply click through here to join us from your computer on on Thursday, March 5th from 12:00 – 1:00. Sheryl passed along this one-page brochure that explains more. Feel free to contact John Pederson at WiscNet for more information.
The Web is changing the world. It’s also changing learning.
We’re excited about that.
It’s not the social technologies or the tools of the Web that excite us, however. It’s the connections, the networks and learning communities that we can create around our passions. Those connections and the opportunities we can build with them are where powerful learning resides in the 21st Century.
For educators, this is a challenge. The world “out there” feels like it’s changing without us. But it’s also an opportunity, one that we believe we must seize to fully prepare our kids for their futures. We have to understand these “seismic shifts” for ourselves, each of us as learners, if we are truly to understand their potential for our schools.
The tools are easy; connections are hard.
Powerful Learning Practice is all about connections. And we know that you can’t teach these technologies the way you teach PowerPoint or spreadsheets. Connections take time to learn and to leverage.
Our model for professional development is unique. It’s a year-long, job-embedded investment in change for your teachers and your school. And it’s delivered by passionate educators with unrivaled experience and expertise in creating
global networks and communities of learners. More than that, it works.
Change is hard. It’s a risk. But what we risk by not changing, by not seizing these opportunities for ourselves and for our students is far greater than standing pat.
Join us from your computer on on Thursday, March 5th from 12:00 – 1:00 to learn more.
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