Communities of Practice

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• Literacy Challenges of The Social Technographic Ladder

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  The ladder. Charlene Li and Josh Bernofff have written a great book titled Groundswell: winning in a world transformed by social technologies . In their book they describe The Social Technographics ladder. “Each step on the ladder represents a group of consumers moreinvolved in the groundswell than the ...
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• First Australian Workshops Rock!

  
  Nancy White's Full Circle Blog — Authority: 414
  Yesterday kicked off the first of my Australian workshops and events with a morning on Technology Stewardship , and afternoon on Visual Facilitation then 2 rousing hours drawing on walls with the NSW KM Forum and the Sydney Facilitators Network . I don’t have all the slides up yet (Wednesday!), but you can ...
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• Implementing a socio- cultural ecology for learning at work – ideas and issues

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 421
  I have been invited to particpate in a workshop on ‘ Technology Enhanced Learning in the context of technological, societal and cultural transformation ‘, being sponsored by the EU funded Stellar Network of Excellence at Garnisch in Germany at teh start of December. I am contributing to a session on Work Based ...
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• Dumber Together? Brainstroming in a Professional Learning Community

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  You have seen it before. The PLC agenda says, “Brainstorm ideas for…” You look around and see the chartpaper, pens, and Post-It notes lying on the table, and you think toyourself, “Why do we waste the time.” You know the rules of brainstorming in PLCs … 1. No criticism 2. Wild ideas are ...
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• Do The Math- The Networked Collaborative Formula

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  The Professional Networked Learning Collaborative has a large network surface area. Network surface area is a measurement of the extent and number of connections from the team members who are physically present with each other, and community partners, useful outsiders, specialists, consultants, professors, etc. who ...
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• Educations Triple Bottom Line

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  How does an organization measure success?  One measure, or should I say three, is the Triple Bottom Line . According to Wikipedia , “The phrase was coined by John Elkington , co-founder of the business consultancy SustainAbility in 1994. It was later expanded and articulated in his 1998 book Cannibals with ...
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• Rant: Does the ‘buy now’ business model work for communities of practice?

  
  Matt's Musings — Authority: 400
  When I was doing the interaction design for the new CHOICE website I advised them that continuing to put $ signs on items to buy wouldn’t encourage membership. When you assess the cognitive processes behind people and communities an individual needs to understand the value proposition before they’ll join. The ...
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• Essential Education: "Trust Agents" by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  
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• Putting Students First and Putting Teachers First: The Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  Part 6 in a series of posts on Ambidextrous Professional Learning Communities In a previous post “ The Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community ” I shared it is the ability to embrace a duality in their thinking that builds an Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community .To hold two opposing ideas in their ...
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• Six Steps To Becoming A Professional Learning Community Coach

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  I have advised those concerned with the performance of Professional Learning Communities to gain fresh insight into how PLCs behave and information about how to drive improvement or fix problems is to play the role of the anthropologist. The Anthropologist is one of the three learning personas from the Tom Kelleys ...
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• Innovation Is Not Invention

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  Dont confuse innovation with invention- Innovation is not invention Every test youve ever taken measured how well you understood the past not how well you create the future.
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• We Have The Answers and They Have The Answers: The Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  Part 6 in a series of posts on Ambidextrous Professional Learning Communities In a previous post “ The Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community ” I shared it is the ability to embrace a duality in their thinking that builds an Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community .To hold two opposing ideas in their ...
  3 weeks ago

• It’s Systematic and It’s Magic: The Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  Part 5 in a series of posts on Ambidextrous Professional Learning Communities In a previous post “ The Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community ” I shared it is the ability to embrace a duality in their thinking that builds an Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community .To hold two opposing ideas in their ...
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• Teaching and learning with technology

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 421
  Yesterday I spoke at the Taccle projec t final confernce on the theme of the Future of e-learning. It is a big subject to deal with in twenty minutes and I hope that it at least was coherent. The audience were some 150 teachers – most from Belgium. My main themes were the need to develop open education and break ...
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• Report Card 2.0-- 32 Traits of Creative People

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  Robert Alan Black Ph.D. lists 32 Traits of Creative People . I wonder if these might not make an interesting framework for a report card. Call it the report of the future, or Report Card 2.0. sensitive not motivated by money sense of destiny adaptable tolerant of ambiguity observant ...
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• Educations New Map

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  I rarely read books on Education. Why you ask?  Several reasons. First, I feel my value to the education community is the different mindset or approach I bring to the field. If everybody is thinking the same thing or thinking in the same way, then innovation is less likely. Second, as has been famously said, ...
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• Do We Limit Our Childrens Creativity?

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  Do we limit our childrens creativity? Take a look at this short clip about one childs creativity and the reactions from parents, teachers, and doctors. I think you will find it thought provoking. Watch This: Rob Jacobs
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• How Important Is It For Educators To Have "Vital Friends" At School?

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 122
  Tom Rath , author of the great book Vital Friends , conducted a massive study on the power and impact of friendships, especially friends in the workplace. Tom asks a series of interesting questions… " Educating oneself is the foundation of our learning systems, and it’s obviously a worthwhile pursuit. ...
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• How can we best use technology at conferences?

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 421
  Last weeks video adventure at the European Conference on Educational Research (#ECER2009) – where we interviewed some 40 or 50 participants on video plus more on audio – has provoked quite some discussion on how we can use educational technology to support conferences. First lets provide a little background ...
  5 weeks ago

• Social Media in Intl. Dev: Gauresh Rajadhyaksha

  
  Nancy White's Full Circle Blog — Authority: 414
  Continuing my series of podcast conversations about the use of  social media in international development, this week we have Gauresh Rajadhyaksh who works with the Development Prospects Group ( http://www.worldbank.org/prospects ), a central think-tank unit within the World Bank .  The unit monitors economic ...
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