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4 Ways To Grow Your Personal Learning Network This Week

The Web20Classroom

Our personal learning networks are all different. Each of us has something different to learn and different to offer. We don’t just decide to have a personal learning network and we find some folks to follow and we are done. Mine looks different from yours and yours from mine.

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Making Time vs Finding Time

A Principal's Reflections

There is nothing more important to an educator, outside of working with kids, than professional learning. Through social media a Personal Learning Network (PLN) provides a great antidote to the age-old time excuse. You can now learn anywhere, with anyone, at anytime you want for free. Image credit: [link].

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Learning Never Stops

A Principal's Reflections

The ability to stop and restart compensates for many of the challenges educators face when it comes to making the time to learn. Personal Learning Network (PLN) Social media allows any educator to learn anytime, anywhere, with anyone they want. To learn more about creating or improving a PLN, click HERE.

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10 Ways to Grow as a Pedagogical Leader

A Principal's Reflections

Prioritize growth Attending at least one conference or workshop a year that aligns with a significant school or district initiative and reading one education book and one from another field, such as general leadership strategies or self-help, can yield powerful lessons and ideas.

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Online Learning Book Recommendations: And Why I Read so Few Books on the Topic

Edsurge

I’m wondering if you might recommend what top three books would you suggest I read outside of ‘Urgency for Teachers,’ ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed,’ ‘The New Education?’ I’ve ordered your book as well. Tim Carson, Skilled Trades and OER Advocate First, allow me to tell you why I don’t typically read books about online learning.

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Autonomy Breeds Change

A Principal's Reflections

They desperately sought time during the school day to engage in professional growth opportunities, learn how to integrate Web 2.0 tools, and develop their own Personal Learning Networks (PLN’s). Math teacher Jeff Fiscina learned how to create engaging learning activities using Educreations.

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Leading When You Don't Have the Answers

A Principal's Reflections

Let me be clear: No one has all the answers, no matter how many books they have written, keynotes delivered, or years of experience under their belt. This was all too common during the pandemic and will continue to persist as disruptive forces change the landscape of life and work.