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Developing a Personal
Learning Community
What Is Learning?
“Teaching is talking. Learning is listening. Knowledge is in books.”
What Is Learning?
A subject is something you take and when you have had it you need not take it again. How many times have we heard, “I don’t need to know that.” or “I already took that.”
What Is Learning?
“School is the place where students come to watch teachers work.”
Troubling Data
The national dropout rate for students remains between 30%-40%.
More Troubling Data
30%-40% of teachers leave the profession during their first two years of teaching and 50% leave by their fifth year.
Background Data
57% of kids are media creators not just media consumers.
And ThisKids spend and average
of 5 hours per day on the computer, watching tv, or
talking and texting on their cells.
It’s a Changing WOrld
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Changing LiteracyAMONG the vicissitudes incident to life no event could have
filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years—a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time.
-George Washington’s First Inaugural
My fellow citizens, today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal. This ceremony is held in the depth of winter, but by the words we speak and the faces we show the world, we force the spring.
-William Jefferson Clinton First Inaugural
Changing Literacy
Changing Literacy
r u smart bcuz i need some1 smart.
New Literacy
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Changing Tools - Web 2.0
YouTubeFlickrDeliciousBlogs and WikisFlock
Hey - 19,241,565
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Hahaha - 34,181,513
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Dance - 71,712,140
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What’s Going On?
The world is changing.Students are changing.Literacy is changing.Tools are changing.How about PD?
Research Shows...
New Forms of PDAs you shift your patterns of learning, you are blazing the trail and showing what our schools will look like in the future and what learning will look like for students.
Web 2.0 Tools for PD
Subject area blogsAll Subjects
Mathematics
Expand Your Network
Check out the Blogrolls of the blogs you follow.Check out the Bookmarks of those you follow.Check out the Photos of those you follow.Find relevant Wikis like this and this.Find videos on TeacherTube
Social Networks
We Are TeachersDigital WishNingTwitter
Sharing
Technology Activities Database
Online Learning
Formal - Accelerate UInformal: MIT Online and Stanford Online
Change is Part of your
Journey
Where will your journey take you?
Pete Reillyhttp://preilly.wordpress.com
http://edtechjourneys.pbwiki.com
