communities of practice

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• 9 Signs of a Losing School

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 411
  From the I dea Management Systems blog comes this post The 9 Signs of a Losing Organisation Fuzzy Vision Lack of Leadership Skills Discouraging Culture High Bureaucracy Lack of Initiative Poor Vertical Communication Poor Cross-functional Collaboration Poor Teamwork Idea and Knowledge ...
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• Dynamic Teacher Collaboration- Harness The Power of "Q"

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 411
  Research has proven that Professional Learning Communities are one of the most powerful educational paradigms. The Professional Learning Community takes the individual teacher and hooks them into a network of their grade level or department level peers. This network in turn makes it possible for teacher to leverage ...
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• Essential Education: “Awesomely Simple” by John Spence

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 411
  
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• Turning Your School Into A "Skunk Works" of Lateral Innovation

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 411
  Innovation should not be linear. Most of us are familiar with examples of the great innovation teams from the business and engineering world. Examples such as Xerox- PARC’ s group, to Apple’s Macintosh group, to Lockheed Martin’s famous “ Skunk Works ” have lead many of us to believe that innovative ideas ...
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• Community Technology Spidergram Evolves Again

  
  Nancy White's Full Circle Blog — Authority: 504
  It is so lovely having a fabulous network – including people I just barely know, but who then hook in with a moment of insight, a remix or ready to augment a forming idea or practice. Gabriele Sani from World Vision in Italy has recently done this with the Community Orientations Spidergram from our Digital ...
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• Essential Education: Lawrence Lessig on Institutional Corruption

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 411
  
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• Need Your Feedback on my Triangulating Thinking

  
  Nancy White's Full Circle Blog — Authority: 504
  OK, I need your help. I have been playing around with this idea of triangulation (possibly not the right term) for a couple of months. Lilia has written about it to help me, but now I need my network to help me sharpen my thinking. Can you please read this and give me your feedback? THANKS Triangulating for ...
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• Communities of practice: Linking knowledge, policy and practice

  
  Nancy White's Full Circle Blog — Authority: 504
  Communities of practice: Linking knowledge, policy and practice – is a paper that Simon Hearn from the Overseas Development Institute and I have been puttering on for quite some months. Now it emerges from the editing process at last. (Funny how so many writing projects in my life take so long. Maybe that’s ...
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• Essential Education: Charles Leadbeater on Collaborative Creativity

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 411
  
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• The New Media School

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 466
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• User-generated content, User-generated contexts and Learning

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 466
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Be More Than A School Administrator...Be An Innovation Coach

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 411
  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: 411
  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: 411
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• Literacy Challenges of The Social Technographic Ladder

  
  Education Innovation — Authority: 411
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• First Australian Workshops Rock!

  
  Nancy White's Full Circle Blog — Authority: 504
  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: 466
  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: 411
  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: 411
  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: 411
  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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