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Download. On this episode of TTT we invite you to go to IncitED to learn more about these projects and support them if you can: Imagining Learning – Creating a National Collective Voice through Listening Open Road Learning Community for Teens: Learning Without School (It's Natural) Youth Voices Summer Program: Connected Learning with the NYC Writing Project Look for the Spokes campaign on Kickstarter. Whether or not you plan to or can not make a contribution to one of these campaigns, please join us for a conversation about crowdfunding on this episode of TTT. We are joined by the following on this episode of TTT: Jaime R. Wood and Peter Lindberg from IncitED IncitED is the crowdfunding community for education where ed supporters can fund, share, and replicate important education initiatives worldwide. http://incited.org David Loitz and Charles Kouns from Imagining Learning Imagining Learning is working to create a national collective voice on the wisdom of young people on how they would reinvent education. http://bit.ly/15IE8P6http://www.facebook.com/imagininglearninghttp://www.twitter.com/imagininglhttp://www.imagininglearning.us Charlie's Ted Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDQd04BfkpIWhat is a Listening session? video http://youtu.be/GhTZ58I495w Alan Burnce from Open Road Providing individualized, non-coercive education that empowers teens to direct their own learning and fulfill their potential.openroadteens.org http://www.incited.org/projects/9 Turner Bohlen and Claire O'Connell from Spokes talk about their plan to ride bikes across America to work for passion-based education for high school students and to find a mentor for every high school student in America! We're people who love what we do. And we all love teaching!http://www.spokesamerica.org Karen Fasimpaur and Paul Oh to help us talk about a Youth Voices Summer Program that will be part of The National Writing Project’s Educator Innovator Initiative http://blog.nwp.org/educatorinnovator/ this summer. Youth Voices is a site where students share, distribute & discuss their digital work online.http://youthvoices.netMore info at http://www.youthvoices.net/summer2013 Links to IncitED crowdfunding campaign planning documents1. Overview document covering pre-planning to post-campaign follow uphttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8lWBi6aQDI-cTh2N0d1UDA0RHc/edit?usp=sharing2. Document with tips for making an effective campaign videohttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8lWBi6aQDI-bHhBdlRBWEpYQ1U/edit?usp=sharing3. Document with tips for creating effective campaign perkshttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8lWBi6aQDI-RDA2bUpkME5BclE/edit?usp=sharing4. Document with tips for writing a basic campaign storyhttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8lWBi6aQDI-UC1FQUtRVlFmWUk/edit?usp=sharing Enjoy! Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. On this episode of TTT we have a conversation about democratic education and IDEC 2013, the 21st annual International Democratic Education Conference, which will be held in Boulder, Colorado this August 4-8. Participants in this episode of TTT are: What is IDEC?IDEC 2013 will be a unique international gathering of changemakers—practitioners, organizers, academics, youth, and educators—built around how we can transform our communities, schools, and learning to ensure that all young people can engage meaningfully in their education and gain the tools to build a just, sustainable, and democratic world. The experience will include a rich blend of pre-scheduled events and the fluidity needed to host conversations, workshops and strategy sessions using a hybrid of Open Space Technology. Be prepared for a conference experience unlike any other – we’ll be pushing the boundaries of what we mean by learning, sharing, connecting and creating.http://www.idec2013.org/about/democraticeducation/http://www.idec2013.org/registration/ What makes IDEC 2013 remarkable?IDEC 2013 is a place where the world learns together about learning. IDEC, now in its 21st year, is hosted by teams of educators from different countries and continents each year. This is the first time in ten years that it has been held in the United States. From Korea to Israel and Brazil to India, IDEC offers participants the space, prompts, and process to learn about the future and history of learning. What is democratic education?In communities around the world, a story is unfolding of young people, educators, networks, and communities generating solutions to the challenges of today’s complex world. That unfolding story is the story of democratic education. Democratic education is not a type of school or research-based practice. It isn’t one kind of learning program or philosophy. It is a frame. It’s a way of gathering together a vast set of ideas, resources, and visions so that a powerful story can be told that reclaims education for people and communities. There are thousands of people and organizations around the globe engaged in democratic education. Many have similar values but different definitions. IDEC 2013 is for all of them. Click Read more to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. On this episode of TTT Monika Hardy and Paul Allison talk with Valerie Burton and Chad Sansing. We are also be joined by Jo Paraiso, whose students in Oakland, CA have been all over Youth Voices recently: http://youthvoices.net/Fremont What have you been noticing? What dreams are you working to make come true? What connections are you making with people and ideas? What are you doing that's awesome? Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.  

Download Another story of +Connected Learning on this episode of TTT. We are joined by Ed Martinez, +Fred Mindlin, and Dan Spelce to discuss "Forage IV," a pilot program supported in part by NWP's collaboration with the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Literacy Initiative. Integrating art with environmental education, we support teachers in linking their existing curriculum to a student-led interest-driven project, collaborating with practicing artists. The Project web site is http://forage.storyreach.com/ We are also joined by Jennifer Woollven, Joel Malley, and Scott Shelhart. This is a story for the National Writing Project's Connected Learning Inquiry Group's Session 6 – Connected Learning is Production Centered http://connect.nwp.org/online-learning-connected-learning/p/16923 This story helps us put learning narratives next to this description of connected learning from The Digital Media & Learning Research Hub http://dmlhub.net/ : Connected learning environments are designed around production, providing tools and opportunities for learners to produce, circulate, curate, and comment on media. Learning that comes from actively creating, making, producing, experimenting, remixing, decoding, and designing, fosters skills and dispositions for lifelong learning and productive contributions to today’s rapidly changing work and political conditions. This webcast is one in a series that we've been doing recently where we are asking: Where are the classrooms that are doing this well and how do they ensure that the other principles are in place? Enjoy! Forage III hanging in a window of the Ritt in Santa Cruz, CA

Download. On this episode of TTT we learn more about connected learning, city as school, using media in justice-based education and more! Educators from the Detroit Future Schools (DFS) program http://schools.detroitfuture.org share their experiences of attempting to re-invent the practice and purpose of education. They discuss the transformative processes that they use in classrooms along with student-generated media projects. Furthermore, theyshare how the DFS network is growing and refining its vision. Enjoy this conversation with +Ammerah Saidi and +ms filipiak from Detroit Future Schools and +Christina Cantrill From the National Writing Project (NWP) in Philadelphia and leave with replicable teaching practices, ideas for school-community interactions, and links to further resources, like this post by Danielle Filipiak on the NWP's Digital Is: "My Homeland:" A Connected Learning Media exchange project between South Korean and Detroit HS Students http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/3842 In addition we connected with +Fred Haas and +Chris Tsang from the Boston Writing Project, just after the bombing at the Marathon. Here's more about Ammerah Saidi and Danielle Filipiak: Ammerah Saidi graduated from the University of Michigan-Dearborn with a B.A. in English and Psychology certified as a secondary teacher. For four years, Ammerah taught in Detroit, Michigan and for one year in Al Hada, Saudi Arabia at an international school. She graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a Masters in School Leadership and is a coordinator for the Detroit Future Schools Program. Danielle Filipiak is currently a doctoral student in English Education at Teachers College-Columbia University. She is interested in the multiple ways that students use literacy to navigate the hybrid and evolving contexts/landscapes around them. She has a decade of teaching experience and have also served in roles such as: teacher organizer, consultant, NWP Urban Sites leadership team member, school board member, co-founder of the Detroit Educator Network, and member of the Detroit Future Media program, a digital justice initiative in Detroit looking to reinvent the practice and purpose of educaiton. Here are some of the resources Danielle describes on this episode of TTT: http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/3400 Using Media to Reclaim the Hood: Essential Questions and Powerful English Pedagogy Student work examples are here: http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/3405 Video is here: http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/3842 and http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/2740 I Love My City: Youth as Problem Solvers and Creators in 21st Century Classrooms Western International High School Walkout http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8b311afSYY Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. Organizers from IDEA democraticeducation.org and IDEC idec2013.org join us on this episode of TTT. This is the first of a series of ongoing conversations. Join us for Part 2 of Planning for IDEC on Wednesday, May 8 at 9PM ET/6PM PT. On this episode, we share/converse/think aloud about the IDEC conference coming up on August 4-8 at Colorado University, Boulder. IDEC, now in its 21st year, is hosted by teams of educators from different countries and continents. This is the first time in ten years that it has been held in the U.S. Democratic education is not a type of school or research-based practice. It isn’t one kind of learning program or philosophy. It is a frame. There are thousands of people and organizations around the globe engaged in democratic education. IDEC 2013 is for all of them.   Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. On this episode of TTT we are joined by Peer to Peer University's Vanessa Gennarelli @mozzadrella & Dirk Uys to discuss discuss P2PU's new badges http://badges.p2pu.org. About a month ago, on the P2PU blog, Vanessa wrote about P2PU's lanch of a New Version of Badges: As Grantees of the Digital Media and Learning Competition http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/winners.php, Peer 2 Peer University has created a platform for anyone who wants to make and issue Badges. We launched badges.p2pu.org at the DML Conference in Chicago last week to an amazing response. Folks were very receptive to our project-based and feedback-driven approach. Here’s a bit of a walkthrough on what that means, and how you can use it. Read more http://goo.gl/bWSER, and enjoy this episode of at Teachers Teaching Teachers. We were also joined by two other heroes of open education and open badges Leah MacVie and Jane Park

Download. On this episode of TTT join Will Richardson @willrich45 to discuss: With teachers and learning everywhere, why do we need schools? This is the third in a series of webcasts done in collaboration with the National Writing Project's Connected Learning Inquiry Group, which is led by Jennifer Woolven @mswollven and Joel Malley @joelmalley. On this episode of TTT Paul Allison, Monika Hardy, and Chris Sloan are are joined by Jon Barilone, Jennifer Woollven, Will Richardson, Joel Malley, and Kim Douillard. This is Will Richardson's About page at http://willrichardson.com/about A parent of two middle school aged children, I’ve been thinking and writing about the intersection of social online learning networks and education for the past 10 years at Weblogg-ed.com, in numerous journals and magazines such as Ed Leadership, Education Week and English Journal, and most recently atwillrichardson.com. I’m an outspoken advocate for change in schools and classrooms in the context of the diverse new learning opportunities that the Web and other technologies now offer. A former public school educator for 22 years, I’m a co-founder of Powerful Learning Practice (http://plpnetwork.com), a unique professional development program that has mentored over 5,000 teachers worldwide in the last five years. My first book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms (Corwin Press, 3rd Edition 2010) has sold over 80,000 copies and has impacted classroom practice around the world. My second book, Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education, (Solution Tree) was released in May, 2011. And my third book, a collection of blog posts titled Learning on the Blog, was published in August of 2011 by Corwin Press. Over the past six years, I’ve had the amazing opportunity to speak and work with to tens of thousands of educators in over a dozen countries about the merits of online learning networks for personal and professional growth. I’m proud to ba a national advisory board member of the George Lucas Education Foundation, and a regular columnist for District Administration Magazine. When I’m not on the road, you can find me in rural New Jersey with my wife Wendy and my children Tess and Tucker Read Why School? How Education Must Change When Learning and Information Are Everywhere, then enjoy this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. Here's Amazon's Book Description of Why School? http://goo.gl/joIS9September 10, 2012 Traditional educators, classrooms, and brick-and-mortar schools are no longer necessary to access information. Instead, things like blogs and wikis, as well as remote collaborations and an emphasis on 'critical thinking' skills are the coins of the realm in this new kingdom. Yet the national dialogue on education reform focuses on using technology to update the traditional education model, failing to reassess the fundamental design on which it is built. In 'Why School?,' educator, author, parent and blogger Will Richardson challenges traditional thinking about education — questioning whether it still holds value in its current form. How can schools adjust to this new age? Or students? Or parents? In this provocative read, Richardson provides an in-depth look at how connected educators are beginning to change their classroom practice. Ultimately, 'Why School?' serves as a starting point for the important conversations around real school reforms that must ensue, offering a bold plan for rethinking how we teach our kids, and the consequences if we don't. Click Read more to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. Share what’s new on this week’s episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers (TTT). We have an exciting line-up of topics and guests over the next several weeks, and so on this episode we decided to learn from each other. TTT started with a group of teachers getting together, just sharing what they are noticing, dreaming of, connecting with and doing that was awesome. On this episode of TTT we continue that tradition. Paul Allison and Monika Hardy are joined by Fred Mindlin, Jo Paraiso, Jerery Hyler, Joel Malley, Jim Nordlinger, and Loren ELF: We talk a bit about our recent learning experiences at this year’s DML conference, introduce new teachers who have just started using Youth Voices, and just basically catch up with each other. Using Monika Hardy’s notion of Detox, we talk about what we are noticing, dreaming of, connecting to, and doing that’s awesome. Enjoy! There are lots of ideas and plans here that we would love to involve you in as well. Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. On this episode of TTT we discuss the video series, "A Year at Mission Hill" http://ayearatmissionhill.com. Ten videos. One year. A public school trying to help children learn and grow. The national conversation we need to be having. Monika Hardy and Chris Sloan host David Loitz who welcomes director, Amy Valens along with the series narrator and education activist, Sam Chaltain . Mission Hill teacher, Jenerrad Williams and Mission Hill parent, Bob Goodman join the conversation as well. And that's not all. We are also joined by IDEA organizers and educators, Jabreel Chisley and Awo Okaikor Aryee-Price. Our friends at the Institue for Democratic Education in America http://democraticeducation.org/index.php/features/missionhill/ write: At IDEA, we're proud to be one of the partners behind "A Year at Mission Hill." The project began when filmmakers Tom and Amy Valens spent a year filming at the school community of Mission Hill, with plans for a full documentary release in fall 2013. The web series came together when Tom and Amy reached out to educator and news commentator Sam Chaltain. Sam brought together http://Ashokaashoka.org, IDEA http://democraticeducation.org/index.php/index/, and the NoVo Foundation http://novofoundation.org around the idea of making a series of short episodes to highlight a year in the life of Mission Hill. Under IDEA's leadership, the concept grew into a larger opportunity to share the story across an eclectic coalition of education organizations, schools, and nonprofits. Currently, more than 40 community partners http://ayearatmissionhill.com/index.php/partners will be sharing the film series and offering their own resources to deepen viewers' learning around each chapter. Maybe you are like Chris Sloan who says, "I'm hooked on the videos A Year at Mission Hill, looking forward to Part 4!" Or maybe you're just learning of this effort to reimagine public education. Either way, we invite you to join this important conversation by listening to this episode of TTT. Go to EdtechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. Joel Malley @joelmalley and Stephen Ritz join us on this episode of TTT, the second of a series of episodes this Spring where we are discussing Connected Learning and our OLE (Online Learning Experience) sponsored by the National Writing Project http://connect.nwp.org/online-learning-connected-learning. (Anybody can join the OLE. Just email Joel.) We're in the middle of the third session, and this webcast looks back to the first session where many of us were introduced to a wonderful example of a connected teacher, Stephen Ritz. Here's the plan for the next couple of months: Session 1 – Connected Learning Core Values, Feb 6-Feb 20 Session 2 – Why School?, Feb 21-March 6 Session 3 – Connected Learning is Interest-Powered, March 7-March 20 Session 4 – Connected Learning is Peer Supported, March 21-April 3 Session 5 – Connected Learning is Academically Oriented, April 3-April 17 Session 6 – Connected Learning is Production Centered, April 18-May 1 Session 7 – Connected Learning is Openly Networked, May 2-May 15 Session 8 – Connected Learning has Shared Purpose, May 16-29 We invite you to join these conversations at the Connected Learning Inquiry Group and here on Teachers Teaching Teachers over the next several weeks. On this episode of TTT, we are joined by: Paul Allison, Stephen Ritz, Joel Malley, Chris Sloan, Nadjib Aktouf, Scott Shelhart, Nikhil Goyal, Valerie Burton and Monika Hardy After listening to this first episode in this series on Connected Learning (TTT #336), we hope you are inspired to join our special guest, Stephen Ritz on this episode of TTT. Check him out here, listen to or watch our webcast — further below, and leave your coments. And stay tuned! We are live every Wednesday at Teachers Teaching Teachers. After we read and discuss Will Richardson's Book Why School? on the Connected Learning Inquiry Group site, Richardson will be joining us on TTT on March 27 at 9PM ET/6PM PT/World Times: http://goo.gl/TLFP7 at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt . Enjoy this episode of TTT, and plan to connect with us all Spring! Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. On this episode of TTT a group of educators discuss "A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age" http://goo.gl/9pIiq Here's who joins the conversation: Paul Allison, Timothy Burke, Jack West, Chris Slon, Anya Kamenetz, Bonnie Stewart, Monika Hardy, Karen Fasimpaur, Jesse Stommel, and Nikhil Goyal Here's the version of the document we are discussing that was published at Hybrid Pedagogy (Jan. 22, 2013): On December 14, 2012, a group of 12 assembled in Palo Alto for a raucous discussion of online education. Hybrid Pedagogy contributors Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel gathered together with folks from a diverse array of disciplines and backgrounds, representing STEM fields, the humanities, schools of education, corporations, non-profits, ivies, community colleges, and small liberal arts colleges. Among us were adjuncts, CEOs, a graduate student, several digital humanists, and two outspoken educational technology journalists. As a group, we’d chaired online programs, designed MOOCs, dropped out of MOOCs, and the term "MOOC" was even coined in one of our living rooms. The goal of the summit was to open a broader conversation about online learning and the future of higher education. See the story in The Chronicle. This co-authored document, which calls for hacking and open discussion, was the result. A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age Preamble Work on this Bill of Rights & Principles began in Palo Alto, California, on December 14, 2012. We convened a group of people passionate about learning, about serving today's students, and about using every tool we could imagine to respond better to the needs of students in a global, interactive, digitally connected world. The Internet has made it possible for anyone on the planet to be a student, a teacher, and a creative collaborator at virtually no cost. Novel technologies that can catalyze learning are bubbling up in less time than it takes to read this sentence. Some have emerged from universities, some from the private sector, some from individuals and digital communities. In the past year, Massive Online Open Courseware, or MOOCs, have become the darling of the moment–lauded by the media, embraced by millions–so new, so promising in possibility, and yet so ripe for exploitation. We believe that online learning represents a powerful and potentially awe-inspiring opportunity to make new forms of learning available to all students worldwide, whether young or old, learning for credit, self-improvement, employment, or just pleasure. We believe that online courses can create "meaningful" as well as “massive" learning opportunities. We are aware of how much we don't know: that we have yet to explore the full pedagogical potential of learning online, of how it can change the ways we teach, the ways we learn, and the ways we connect. And we worry that this moment is fragile, that history frequently and painfully repeats itself. Think of television in the 1950s or even correspondence courses in the 1920s. As we begin to experiment with how novel technologies might change learning and teaching, powerful forces threaten to neuter or constrain technology, propping up outdated educational practices rather than unfolding transformative ones. All too often, during such wrenching transitions, the voice of the learner gets muffled. For that reason, we feel compelled to articulate the opportunities for students in this brave electronic world, to assert their needs and–we dare say–rights. We also recognize some broader hopes and aspirations for the best online learning. We include those principles as an integral addendum to the Bill of Rights below. Our broad goal is to inspire an open, learner-centered dialogue around the rights, responsibilities, and possibilities for education in the globally-connected world of the present and beyond. I. Bill [...]

Download. Joel Malley @joelmalley and Jennifer Woollven @mswoollven join us on this episode of TTT, the first of a series of episodes this Spring where we'll be discussing Connected Learning and our OLE (Online Learning Experience) sponsored by the National Writing Project http://connect.nwp.org/online-learning-connected-learning. (Anybody can join the OLE. Just email Joel.) Here's how Joel and Jennifer welcome us on the Connected Learning Inquiry Group site: Welcome to the Connected Learning Study Group! We are gathered here to explore the framework of connected learning. We will explore the connected learning framework, seek real world examples of the principles in action and ultimately explore how we might transform our own classrooms to make student learning increasingly connected in a way that best fits our own curriculum and student needs.  And here's the plan: Our Schedule Session 1 – Connected Learning Core Values, Feb 6-Feb 20 Session 2 – Why School?, Feb 21-March 6 Session 3 – Connected Learning is Interest-Powered, March 7-March 20 Session 4 – Connected Learning is Peer Supported, March 21-April 3 Session 5 – Connected Learning is Academically Oriented, April 3-April 17 Session 6 – Connected Learning is Production Centered, April 18-May 1 Session 7 – Connected Learning is Openly Networked, May 2-May 15 Session 8 – Connected Learning has Shared Purpose, May 16-29 We invite you to join these conversations at the Connected Learning Inquiry Group and here on Teachers Teaching Teachers over the next several weeks. On this episode of TTT, we are joined by: Lacy Manship, Jon Barilone, Leah Jensen, Joel Malley, Evonne Heyning, Anna Smith, Jennifer Woollven After listening to this first episode in this series on Connected Learning, we hope you will be inspired to join our special guest, Stephen Ritz on TTT#338, this Wednesday, February 27th at 9PM ET/6PM PT/World Times: http://goo.gl/Xwhg0 Check him out here, and join our conversation with this connected teacher from the South Bronx on Wednesday! And stay tuned! We are live every Wednesday at Teachers Teaching Teachers. After we read and discuss Will Richardson's Book Why School? on the Connected Learning Inquiry Group site, Richardson will be joining us on TTT on March 27 at 9PM ET/6PM PT/World Times: http://goo.gl/TLFP7 at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt . Enjoy this episode of TTT, and plan to connect with us all Spring! Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. On this episode of TTT, we finish Digital Learning Day http://www.digitallearningday.org/ with a conversation about open badges. Paul Allison takes some time to reflect on a the use of badges in his high school English class, and look who joins him: +Anthony Flores http://youthvoices.net/users/anthonyf- One of the first students to earn 15 badges and earn a credit in English: http://youthvoices.net/play +Emily Goligoski, Open Badges Design & Community Lead at the Mozilla foundation who can help us think about Mozilla's Open Badge Infrastructure and Badge Backpacks. http://openbadges.org/en-US/ +Paul Oh, Senior Program Associate at National Writing Project, involved in many technology projects. +Christina Cantrill who works with the National Writing Project and directs the Digital Is project http://digitalis.nwp.org +Karen Fasimpaur who currently runs a small educational technology company that works with mobile technology integration in schools.http://www.k12handhelds.com/ She also runs the K12 Open Ed web sitehttp://www.k12opened.com/blog/and more! +monika hardy, and +Paul Allison are on this episode as hosts, although Paul asked Karen if she would facilitate this episode of TTT because he wanted to talk about his experiments with badges, using P2PU, Open Badge Backpacks, and Youth Voices. Enjoy listening to us trying figure out what we've been up to! Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.