What’s different about this book?
The Connected Educator is about
- Learner first, educator second
- Connected Learning Communities – the next generation of professional learning communities
- Do It Yourself professional development
- Becoming a connected learner
The time has come to reject incremental change and to radically transform education to fully prepare students for life in the 21st century. The Connected Educator is about the need for teachers in the Digital Age to exploit the transformative potential of emerging technologies on behalf of their students and their own professional growth.
In the professional development model we describe, teachers and school leaders work together in local and global networks, connecting, collaborating and harvesting knowledge they apply in their schools and classrooms.
Through their participation in Connected Learning Communities, educators develop shared visions, common goals, and beliefs around principled change. They brainstorm and talk about creative ways to meet the needs of the 21st century learner with fellow professionals, whose ideas and geography may be very different than their own. Together in these diverse spaces they co-construct strategies that can motivate schools to transform learning environments, thus assuring their own sustainability by becoming highly relevant in students’ lives.
Our book also advocates for inquiry-driven, passion-based instructional strategies that unleash the artistry of teaching and learning in educators. It’s the kind of teaching that requires educators to think deeply about learning design so that we are constantly leading and encouraging students to become self directed learners.
Intrigued? Buy our book. Participate in interactive, crowd-sourced learning as you read. Join the online community that’s growing up around the book’s ideas.
Experience for yourself the power of connected learning in a collaborative community. Become the educator your 21st century students need you to be.
