Communities of Practice

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• Essential Education: Charles Leadbeater on Collaborative Creativity

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 412
  
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• The New Media School

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 494
  Last Wednesday I was honoured to speak (via skype) at the launch of the New Media School in Bucharest. The launch took place in the Modern Art Museum who are a partner in the project. The New Media School is a fascinating initiative by the students union to promote social and collaborative learning. For me the most ...
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• User-generated content, User-generated contexts and Learning

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 494
  This is a short video – the first in a new series of Sounds of the Bazaar videos – made as a contribution to a workshop on ‘Technology-enhanced learning in the context of technological, societal and cultural transformation’ being held on November 30 to December 1 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria. This ...
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• Be More Than A School Administrator...Be An Innovation Coach

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 412
  I have an idea… "It will never work." "We don’t have the budget to do it." "It will take to much time and we just don’t have any to waste." "The district won’t like it." "Teachers won’t want to do that." "That isn’t the way we do things at this school." "What does that have to do with test scores?" ...
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• What Would Peter Drucker Say About Education Leadership?

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 412
  What follows is a quote from Peter Drucker ,but with an Education Innovation twist. I have removed words likebusiness, company, executive, and economics; and replaced them withschool(s), education, and principal. “Schools prefer not toabandon the old, the obsolescent, the no-longer-productive; they’drather hang ...
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• Essential Education: "Myths and Opportunities: Technology in the Classroom" by Alan November

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 412
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• Literacy Challenges of The Social Technographic Ladder

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 412
  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: 121
  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: 494
  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: 412
  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: 412
  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: 412
  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: 399
  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: 412
  
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• Putting Students First and Putting Teachers First: The Ambidextrous Professional Learning Community

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 412
  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: 412
  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: 412
  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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