21st Century Collaborative

I’ve been tagged by Jenny Luca to contribute to this meme. The idea is that you share 7 things about yourself that would be unknown to your readers. 1. Before I attended college at age 26, I managed health spas.2. I first became interested in education when I was homeschooling my four children. Soon I [...]

At the close of every year our family uses this time as an opportunity to review, reflect, predict and plan. We each have a journal where we have kept our goals and it is interesting to look back over the years and see where we have been successful and areas that still need work or [...]

"21st Century Learning is students and teachers co-creating the curriculum.  The teacher has a broad-brush idea of where to go, but the students connect this outline with their own passions, developing a syllabus together." One of the Powerful Learning Practice community members recently gave this definition to 21st Century learning. It connected immediately to my [...]

Have you ever noticed how these powerful Web 2.0 tools really do transcend time and space? It seems as though the friendships forged in virtual space become deeper sooner. Maybe it is the perceived anonymity where we share our hearts and true selves and by pass many of the physical space cues that trip us [...]

Frustrated I turned to my PLN on Twitter and asked– * What about kids talking to each other and learning socially is so hard to "get"? * Why is control such a huge part of school culture? Control of kids–control of teachers? * Why do we not trust students and think if we are talking [...]

Last night my son walks outside- snaps this- and comes in and emails me. He then Skypes and says, "Check your email." Interesting thing- we live in the same house. I get up and go outside and make him come look with me f2f. While we are outside, my daughter, who is walking her dog [...]

In his book, Shirky describes a "ladder of activities that are enabled or improved by social tools" in which "The rungs on the ladder, in order of difficulty, are sharing, cooperation, and collective action." (Here Comes Everybody, p.49). While I am sure Shirky never intended for anyone to use these steps as a planning tool [...]