Create a connected learning community through social media and rediscover the power of being a learner first. After uncovering the theories and research behind the significance of learning through collaboration with other educators, the authors show you how to take advantage of technology to improve your own learning and ultimately the learning of your students.
Benefits:
- Examine chapter-specific author vignettes to understand leading and learning in networks and communities.
- Gain step-by-step instructions on how to utilize a particular technology tool.
- Explore relevant, real-life examples of educators using technology tools to enhance learning in their classrooms and schools.
- Read the research behind the author's connected learning community model and scale.
Contents:
Chapter 1: Defining the Connected Educator
Chapter 2: Developing a Connected Learning Model
Chapter 3: Learning to Learn
Chapter 4: Building a Collaborative Culture
Chapter 5: Using Tools to Support Connected Learning
Chapter 6: Building Your Connected Learning Community
Chapter 7: Sustaining the Momentum
Chapter 8: Transforming Leadership for a Connected World
Chapter 9: What the Future Holds
Appendix A: Research Base for the Connected Learning Community Model
Appendix B: Scale in Action
Appendix C: Common Diigo and Twitter Hashtags
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach is a 20-year educator who has been a classroom teacher, technology coach, charter school principal, district administrator, university instructor, and digital learning consultant. She is owner and founder of 21st Century Collaborative, LLC, a digital learning consulting business. Through the Powerful Learning Practice Network, which she cofounded with Will Richardson, Sheryl works with schools and districts across the US, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, and Australia to help them re-envision their learning cultures and communities.
Sheryl is a sought-after presenter at national and international events, speaking on 21st century reform, teacher and educational leadership, community building, and educational issues impacting marginalized populations such as the homeless. She also serves on the New Media Consortium's 2011 Horizon.K12 Advisory Board.
Sheryl earned bachelor's and master's degrees in early childhood education from Valdosta State University. She is pursuing a doctorate in educational planning, policy, and leadership at the College of William & Mary.
Lani Ritter Hall has more than thirty-five years of diverse teaching experiences in urban, suburban, and independent schools at the middle and secondary level in the United States and Canada. She and her students began collaborating globally in the 1980s using a curriculum she designed and developed. Lani, a National Board Certified Teacher, has created and facilitated professional development around technology infusion into learning for more than twenty years and has presented at local, state, and national conferences. She has expanded her global collaborations through her leadership role in the initial years of K12Online, the first educator-led, free, totally online conference; her participation in the first massive open online course that explored connectivism and connective knowledge; and through her current roles of community leader and co-director of connected coaches in online communities of practice for Powerful Learning Practice.
Lani earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Earlham College and a master's degree in curriculum and instruction from Cleveland State University. She lives with her husband in Northeast Ohio.
