This is a cross post from the PLP blog. I am very proud to announce a new initiative at Powerful Learning Practice: Voices from the Learning Revolution At PLP one of our core values is to build capacity in others and more specifically, our PLPeeps. We believe part of our role is to create educational [...]

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin One thing we can count on in the era in which we live is Change. We are living in fluid and dynamic times. Things change, towns change, and people come and [...]

Have you ever woke up and had something burning inside you that you know you are supposed to write or develop and yet you just do not have your mind around it yet? That’s me this morning. So I am being faithful to the urgency and seeing where my fingers are going to take me. [...]

I recently held a breakout session at Educon on the lack of gender diversity in the ed tech space. The session was well attended by both men and women who came together to discuss the topic from an appreciative perspective. Conversation Description: Pull up the list of keynotes, speaker spotlights and panelists for any edtech [...]

John Merrow wrote on 20. Jan, 2011 at 12:04 am (in a comment to his own post here): We have to move beyond ‘regurgitation education.’ Our kids don’t live in that world anywhere else. Two of the three justifications for school no longer apply in anything resembling the traditional sense (and the way it was [...]

I got invited to TEDWomen in DC and I have been waiting to write about the experience until I could do so objectively. It’s funny. I had someone tell me a few weeks ago that they did not even believe I was there. (I was – I have the t-shirt, the bag, the water bottle. [...]

Dear Staff, I have been thinking of you today. Thinking about your various roles within Powerful Learning Practice. Thinking about how I can help you (us) be more passionate about what you (we) do and how I can provide vision, hope, trust and inspiration as the leader of our company. This is “our” company you [...]

Spent some time after an all day workshop delivered to El Paso ISD touring the city with my friend Tim Holt, Director of Instructional Technology at El Paso ISD. If you do not know Tim, he is quite an interesting guy- an educator with a science background, a photographer with an artistic eye and has [...]

Repost from Scott’s site: Chris Lehmann and Scott McLeod submitted our book to the publisher yesterday: McLeod, S., & Lehmann, C. (Eds.). (in press). What school administrators need to know about digital technologies and social media. The book is intended to help administrators gain a basic knowledge base, think critically about some key issues, and get [...]

Qualities, Attributes and Characteristics of an Online Community Leader Once you decide that an online community will be of value in helping to accomplish your project or company goals the first task to accomplish is to hire a fantastic community leader. This will be the most important decision you make for the community. The success [...]