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A special-focus Connected Educator Month webinar will kick off on October 1st as part of the “Student Agency, Voice, and the Maker Movement” theme and set the stage for a month-long set of conversations about creating space, time and opportunities for this kind of connected learning in the classroom. An open online forum for youth and their teachers called Youthvoices.net will also be highlighted as a space that many regulars at TTT work in with youth. Teachers Teaching Teachers is exactly what it claims to be – an opportunity for educators to touch base as peers and colleagues about connected learning and daily practice. Held every Wednesday evening at 9pm ET, New York City high school teacher Paul Allison invites open dialogue and conversations, “water cooler style,” among a range of teachers and learners from K-University educators, to developers, artists, mentors, coaches, designers, makers, dreamers and students. This is a perfect time to jump into this collegial and friendly community, as well as get introduced to a related youth/teacher forum called Youthvoices.net, if you haven’t been already. And if you have been, we invite you to reconnect and revisit throughout October. TTT is streamed live via Google Hangout at EdTechTalk.com and includes a chat to increase the numbers who are able to participate.

Download. We were planning a “Welcome Back” episode on Teachers Teaching Teachers, something about how to launch connected learning with Youth Voices in our classrooms and how to be more planful about connecting our curriculum. #connectedlearning. How do we do that after Michael Brown’s killing and the Ferguson protests? More than ever we need those days, even weeks of trust-building with our students, yet we also can’t pretend that Ferguson isn’t happening. In addition to this webcast, we offer a small contribution with a #FergusonSyllabus http://bit.ly/1AkhCba or http://youthvoices.net/michaelbrown using Gooru, NowComment, Crocodoc, and Vialogues. Start with your own questions, then deepen your inquiry into Michael Brown’s shooting, and the protests and confrontations in Ferguson by choosing from these articles, songs, interviews, photographs, blog posts, podcasts, reviews, videos, reports and surveys. For this episode of TTT, Youth Voices teachers Chris Sloan, Paul Allison, Jo Paraiso, and Alicia Lobaco talk about how we are going to be launch a connected learning curriculum this year on Youth Voices http://youthvoices.net and how we are talking about and learning from Michael Brown’s shooting, the protests, and the confrontatons in Ferguson. In addition we were also joined by Dr. Marcia Chatelain, who has been organizing #FergusonSyllabus on Twitter. On LinkedIn, Marcia writes: I am first and foremost an educator. I have been teaching high school and college students since 2003. My career goals include publishing on the experiences of women and girls in the United States, African-American women’s leadership and the relationship between food and society. Dr. Chatelin is also a Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow and she is the recipient of a 2012-2013 Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on her second book on food and civil rights. She is also Assistant Professor in History #FergusonSyllabus is a great way to connect with others who are thinking about when and how to bring the Michael Brown shooting into the curriculum. One of the take-aways from this episode of TTT was to be reminded of the power of http://youthvoices.net for our students. It’s important to see and hear the views of students from different communities. The students in Chris Sloan’s classes in Salt Lake City and the students in Jo Paraiso’s classes in Oakland and my students in the Bronx are relatively homogeneous, and they can learn a lot from talking with students outside of their immediate school communities, especially on issues of race. Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast,and to find links to a few of the resources shared during this episode of TTT.  

Download. On this episode of TTT we celebrate Open Education Week 2014 http://www.openeducationweek.org/ with: Karen Fasimpaur https://plus.google.com/u/0/104568675700472295751/about Verena Roberts https://plus.google.com/u/0/108390509469829218014/about Greg McVerry https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GregMcverry/about Ian O’Byrne – @wiobyrne http://wiobyrne.com/ https://plus.google.com/u/0/111576401886299659895/about Nate Otto @ottonomy / http://ottonomy.net https://plus.google.com/u/0/+NateOtto/about We talk about open learning and open educational resources in K-12 education. We discuss the benefits and challenges of open resources, such as the new K-12 OER Community of Practice, http://www.k12opened.com/community/ and how online spaces like this and others might be used to support educators in opening up their practice. K-12 Open Educational Resources Community of Practice from Karen Fasimpaur on Vimeo.   Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast,and to find links to several of the resources shared during this episode of TTT.

Download. Calling all gardeners, foodies, and critical inquirers! On this episode of TTT meet teachers who have been developing amazing projects around food. We are joined by Joseph Franzen and Brent Peters along with one of their students, Devin Brown. In additon Lauren Goldberg, Elfe Dona, and Karen Fasimpaur add to this rich conversation about what happens when we focus on the relationships students have with food. Here are a couple of teasers: Before becoming an English teacher and Bread Loaf student, Brent Peters worked as a chef at the Mayan Café in Louisville, Kentucky. Joe Franzen has been an urban gardener, sustainability enthusiast, environmental educator, and kitchen magician for years. He has turned Fern Creek Traditional High School into an “edible campus.” Read more at “The Case For Food Literacy” on the Bread Loaf Teacher Network Journal http://sites.middlebury.edu/bltnmag/2012/10/25/food-literacy/ See how Joe and Brent helped connect their students from Louisville with youths in the Navajo Nation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJoEdHe-p3s Also take a look at Lauren Goldberg’s article in the English Journal, “Herbivores, Carnivores, and Literavores: Argument and Appetite in the Classroom”http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/EJ/1026-jul2013/EJ1026Herb.pdf We’d love to hear how your students have used food, gardening, and critical inquiry in their learning. What a rich place this is for learning — for all of us! Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast,and to find links to a few of the resources shared during this episode of TTT.

Download. Teacher voice is our theme on this episode of TTT recorded on 10.16.13 in the middle of Connected Educators Month http://connectededucators.org/. Raising teacher voice is an ongoing theme on TTT, and we welcomed this opportunity to re-join the conversations that we hosted in May and June, 2013: TTT#351 Teachers Speaking Up http://edtechtalk.com/node/5198On this… episode… we talk about how, when, why, and where to speak up!  TTT#353 Teachers Speaking Uphttp://edtechtalk.com/node/5200A provocative conversation about Teachers Speaking Up w/@AndreaZellner, @KSchulten, @StevenZemelman, @Ochoajen @MsSandersTHS, @meenoorami, and Pat Delaney On this episode of TTT we are joined by: Meenoo Rami Kevin Hodgson Karen Fasimpaur Johanna Paraiso Chandler Sansing Maribeth Whitehouse Click Read more to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast,and to find links to several of the resources shared during this episode of TTT.

Download. On this episode of TTT we offer a conversation about the NY Times articles on Dasani: Invisible Child http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/invisible-child/#/?chapt=1 We are joined by: Marina Lombardo Maribeth Whitehouse Stephanie West-Puckett Al Elliott We were moved the NY Times articles and the issues they raise. Many of us teach students similar to Dasani, and this Times series gives us a great opportunity to talk about the issues that students like her present in our classrooms. This is our third conversation about Dasani and students who face similar challenges, and what it’s like to be teachers in schools with students facing the challenges of poverty. Also see: TTT#375 Hour of Code and Dasani w/ Nikhil Goyal, Maurya Couvares, Mia Zamora, Kim Douillard, Stephanie West-Puckett 12.11.13  http://edtechtalk.com/node/5222 TTT#376 – Dasani: Invisible Child Conversations with Virginia Vitzthum and Jake Jacobs – 12.18.13 http://edtechtalk.com/node/5220 We’d love to know what your perspectives are on the issues raised in the Times series.  Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast,and to find links to several of the resources shared during this episode of TTT.

Download. On this episode of TTT, recorded on 10.9.13 as part of our series of Connected Educator Month http://connectededucators.org shows, we explore why open matters when we share curriculum. We are joined by: Greg McVerry Christina Cantrill Johanna Paraiso Karen Fasimpaur Joann Boettcher Sheri Edwards Here’s a Digital Is http://digitalis.nwp.org/ resource on this topic, written by one of our frequent (and always welcomed) guests on TTT, Karen Fasimpaur: Why does “open” matter? There is a lot of talk about “open” these days. It’s the new black. It’s cool and hip, and marketeers are calling their products “open,” whether they are or not. But what does “open” really mean? And why should we care? For the purposes of this discussion, “open” refers to content that can be remixed, modified, and redistributed by anyone. There’s an endless supply of free content on the Internet. How is open different from everything else that is free? In the United States, any content that is not public domain (by virtue of its age or designation as such by the creator) is copyrighted, whether or not it is indicated as such. Subject to certain excpeptions such as fair use, the copyright owner has exclusive rights to reproduce, prepare derivatives, and distribute the copyrighted work (section 107 of the copyright law).* Open-licensed content, though, can be reused and redistributed without prior permission. The most common open licenses are those provided by Creative Commons. An attachment below summarizes the various licenses and gives more info about open resources. As educators, why should we care about open? Some of the reasons include economics, remixability, and promoting a culture of sharing. We’ll explore each of these in the chapters that follow. BROWSE THIS RESOURCE What is the cost of “closed”? How does “open” contribute to our ability to remix? What are the broader implications of a culture of open? How can I be more “open”? – See more at: http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/3837#sthash.ewnNpvyc.dpuf Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. On this episode of TTT we discuss social media in education with several high school students. We are joined by: Paige Woodard @paige_woodard http://paigeawoodard.wordpress.com Paige Woodard Johanna Paraiso https://sites.google.com/site/paraisoenglishclass/ and three of her students at Fremont High School in Oakland, California http://youthvoices.net/Fremont Johanna Paraiso bassam taleb Katia Navidad jorge espinoza Paige is on a mission, and we learn a lot by when Joanna’s students who are working on http://youthvoices.net join her in this conversation. Here’s what Paige wrote recently on Shane Haggerty’s blog http://publicassemblypr.com/2013/10/31/what-i-learned-one-students-mission/: Changing the education system is difficult, but tangible. For the past three months I have focused on integrating social media into the education system and, surprisingly, have found countless administrators, teachers, and social media gurus alike that are passionate about assisting me in my mission. My social media education mission began with a simple Twitter account and blog on WordPress, yet my ultimate goal is to film a DVD to sell to school administrators that will explain why social media is beneficial in the classroom and how it can be incorporated into the curriculum. Paige also writes (in an email): I am really interested in students’ responsibility on social media and why they should monitor what they share, as college admissions and future employers alike research you on social media before accepting you into their college/university or allow you to represent their business. I am also advocating for social media usage in the classroom because it exposes students to countless opportunities unavailable to them in their school district. As an example, without the use of social media and networking, I would not have made a presentation to Howard Rheingold’s class at Stanford University. I am happy to brainstorm any other ideas as well. Want more? Here’s Howard Rheingold’s interview with Paige and and her teacher, Don Wettrick, “Freedom, Autonomy, and Digital Media at an Indiana High School” http://dmlcentral.net/blog/howard-rheingold/freedom-autonomy-and-digital-media-indiana-high-school Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. CEM 2013 is ON http://connectededucators.org/! This is the first of five special episodes of TTT http://edtechtalk.com/ttt we did as part of Connected Educator Month. We gathered for this episode of TTT on October 2 to talk about what it means for each of us to be “connected” — and how this has changed our work with studnets. Enjoy! Here’s who join us for this episode: Christina Cantrill Sheri Edwards Valerie Burton Johanna Paraiso Joann Boettcher Karen Fasimpaur Alan Levine Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast,and to find a couple of links to the resources shared during this episode of TTT.

Download. On this episode of TTT, along with Paul Oh, representing the National Writing Project’s Educator Innovator project http://blog.nwp.org/educatorinnovator, we consider developments at DIY.org http://diy.org with Andrew Silwinski @thisandagain, Megan Leppla @MeganLeppla from DIY.org and Jim Chandler, Science teacher and DIYer from Auburn, Maine. DIY.org http://diy.org is a “a community for passion-based learning.” Enjoy! Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast,and to find a couple of links to the resources shared during this episode of TTT.

Download. On this episode of TTT, enjoy @MsSandersTHS @ellication @reallifepoets Chaniya O’Bey and three youths, Chase, Ebony, and Justin from the Birmingham Brave New Voices and Real Life Poets. Young Alabama poets competing… for Brave New Voices festival in Chicago http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/06/young_alabama_poets_competing.html> BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Birmingham poets age 13-20 have a chance to participate in Brave New Voices 2013, a festival that will be held in Chicago in August. BNV is a network of more than 70 organizations that hosts a HBO series that “captures teenager picking up the pen and taking hold of the microphone with passion, intelligence, creativity, honesty and power,” according to the BNV web site. We celebrate poetry with young poets from Birmingham, Alabama on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. Along with the youths, we are joined by: Beth Sanders @MsSandersTHSEducator working on making a ruckus. Social justice, technology equality, educational equity for everyone. Youth Converts Culture Co-Founder. ADE Class of 2013.Birmingham, Alabama Al Elliott @ellicationDad. Educator. Learner. Currently serving as a 5th Grade Teacher + Green Valley Elementary | Hoover City Schools | Real Life Poets, Inc. [Board Member] John Paul Taylor @reallifepoets and Chaniya O’BeyThe Real Life Poets Inc. is a 501 c3 non-profit community service organization that uses and encourages communication using spoken word poetry and the arts.Birmingham, Alabama http://reallifepoets.org You don’t want to miss this one! This is also posted at EdTechTalk.

Download. A provocative conversation about Teachers Speaking Up w/ @AndreaZellner, @KSchulten, @StevenZemelman, @Ochoajen @MsSandersTHS, and Pat Delaney on this episode of TTT (Please subscribe with this link: http://www.teachersteachingteachers.org/feed/podcast/ (And BTW http://cloud.feedly.com is a great replacement for Google Reader. The App, BeyondPod now integrates with Feedly.) On this episode of TTT, we are joined by: This episode is a follow up to TTT#351 Teachers Speaking Up w/ Jesse Hagopian, Diana Laufenberg, José Vilson, Steven Zemelman, Pat Delaney, Maribeth Whitehouse http://edtechtalk.com/node/5198 — and we plan more on this topic later this summer. Here are a few notes from the show: Look at what happened in Michigan today, Andrea Zellner writes: Our teachers are passionate and outspoken: http://www.michiganradio.org/post/teachers-rally-lansing-more-support-public-education Jen Ochoa’s “Give Them an Apple, or a Hug: Help Teachers and Students Survive Testing” http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/schoolbook/2013/apr/16/give-them-an-apple-or-a-hug-help-teachers-and-students-survive-testing/ Kevin Hodgson’s blog: http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/ Be sure to follow up at Teachers Speak Up http://teachersspeakup.com , a blog, where Steve Zemelman is a co-convener. Some of the interesting things going on in Philly for Teacher Voice - http://facesofthelayoffs.org/about-the-project/http://thenotebook.org/http://www.educationvoterspa.org/index.php/site/take-action/http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/school_files/ (Kristin’s live-tweeting of the SRC meetings is legendary and an amazing resource for the community)http://www.tagphilly.org/ Brave New Voices -http://youthspeaks.org/bravenewvoices/Fundraising link: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/team-atlanta-goes-to-brave-new-voices-2013 Lisa Neilsen’s group on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/homeschoolingunschooling/A place where parents, students, teens, and teachers frustrated with traditional schooling can come together to discuss the more effective options they are pursuing. Conversations often address things like opting out of testing and other traditional schooling issues. Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. Jim Gee joins this episode of TTT, discussing his book, The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter Students through Digital Learning. On this episode, we continue the conversation we started on TTT#350 http://edtechtalk.com/node/5197. Enjoy! New York: Palgrave/Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=628397 eBook available here: http://us.macmillan.com/Book.aspx?isbn=9781137324115 Kindle edition: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009OZN6KS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270488014 Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. We invite you to consider how you might speak up a bit more, tell your stories as a teacher, and assert your leadership. On this week’s episode of TTT (recorded 5/29/13), we talk about how, when, why, and where to speak up! We discuss how teachers become leaders by loosing fear, speaking up, telling their stories, and taking collective action. Join us for the next installment of a series of shows about teachers speaking up on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 9PM ET/6PM PT. Our guests on this episode are: Jesse Hagpian, Diana Laufenberg, Jose Vilson, Steve Zemelman, Patrick Delaney, Maribeth Whitehouse Jesse Hagopian, a high school history teacher and union representative at Garfield High School who refused to administer the MAP standardized test in January. Recently, the school district backed down, announcing that the Measures of Academic Progress, or MAP test, is now optional for high schools. http://iamaneducator.com/ | https://twitter.com/JessedHagopian. Jesse is a public high school teacher in Seattle and a founding member of Social Equality Educators (SEE). He is a contributing author to Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation and 101 Changemakers: Rebels and Radicals Who Changed US History (Haymarket Books). Hagopian serves on the Board of Directors of Maha-Lilo—“Many Hands, Light Load”—a Haiti solidarity organization. Diana Laufenberg describes herself as a farm kid turned Science Leadership Academy teache, now taking a year to consult, travel and learn. http://laufenberg.wordpress.com/ | https://twitter.com/dlaufenberg. She has taught all grade levels from 7-12 in Social Studies and she has most recently been a teacher with the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, an inquiry-driven, project-based high school focused on modern learning. Diana’s practice has deep roots in experiential education, taking students from the classroom to the real world and back again. Before finding her way to Philadelphia, she was an active member of the teaching community in Flagstaff, AZ where she was named Technology Teacher of the Year for Arizona and a member of the Governor’s Master Teacher Corps. Recently Diana was featured on TED.com for the “How to Learn? From Mistakes” talk and recognized for earning National Board Certification. Her publications include a featured piece on the New York Times Learning blog, co-authoring a chapter in an educational leadership book, an upcoming article in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy and regular contributions to teachinghistory.org. José Luis Vilson is a math educator for a middle school in the Inwood / Washington Heights neighborhood of New York, NY. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Syracuse University and a master’s degree in mathematics education from the City College of New York. He’s also a committed writer, activist, web designer, and father. He co-authored the book Teaching 2030: What We Must Do For Our Students and Public Schools … Now and In The Future with Dr. Barnett Berry and 11 other accomplished teachers. He currently serves as the president emeritus of the Latino Alumni Network of Syracuse University, as a board member on the Board of Directors for the Center for Teaching Quality, and has been a part of the Acentos Foundation, LATinos In Social Media (LATISM), the Capicu Poetry Group, BlogCritics, and the AfroSpear.He writes for Edutopia, GOOD, and TransformED / Future of Teaching, and has written for CNN.com, Education Week, Huffington Post, and El Diario / La Prensa NY. He has also spoken at TEDxNYED and the Save Our Schools March.- See more at: http://thejosevilson.com/about/#sthash.VTpt98UX.dpuf Steven Zemelman, one of the conveners of http://teachersspeakup.com/ and much more. Steve directs the Illinois Writing Project, and works to build long-term sustainability of school improvement. He works on literacy, whole-school development, and teacher leadership[...]

Download. On this episode of TTT we begin a conversation about James Paul Gee’s book, The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter Students Through Digital Learning (2013). New York: Palgrave/Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=628397eBook available here: http://us.macmillan.com/Book.aspx?isbn=9781137324115Kindle edition: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009OZN6KS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270488014 Enjoy this episode of TTT, even if you’ve just started the book! It might give you some insights as you read. Gee will be joining us on TTT on Wednesday, June 5th. If you would like to join us in the Hangout-on-Air, please let us know. You might also be interested in this essay by Gee: Digital Media and Learning: A Prospective Retrospective http://www.jamespaulgee.com/sites/default/files/pub/Humans%20learn%20from%20experience.pdf On this episode we are joined by: Gerry James – @gjames3312 http://edreach.us/channel/edgamerLeigh Wolf – @gravesle http://www.leighgraveswolf.comRoger Whitson – @rogerwhitson http://www.rogerwhitson.netCheck out – Hybrid Pedagogy: http://www.hybridpedagogy.com Here are a few paragraphs from the introductin of James Paul Gee’s The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter Students Through Digital Learning. To continue this conversation, please plan to join us along with James Paul Gee at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt on Wednesday, June 5 at 9PM ET/6PM PT/World Times http://goo.gl/kfQfu Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.