The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

“Social media has offered us a platform where we can learn from and with the smartest people we ‘meet’ from around the world, whenever we need to or are ready to go.” Scott McLeod & Chris Lehman The School Leader’s Guide to Social Media Personal Learning Networks existed long before there was an Internet.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 28, 2017

Thanks to social media and my Personal Learning Network (PLN), I began to embrace new ideas, think differently, and critically reflect on my professional practice to be a better leader. The learning experience must be redesigned and made personal. Learning spaces must become learner-centered.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

As my experiences grew, my personal learning network broadened and my perspectives became less myopic. I realized that talking pedagogy means very little if you don’t have a number of critical things in place before you get to the learning. Amidst all of this energy, though, something seemed to be missing.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

How can we best harness the positive aspects of technology to improve student learning and the schools we work in? As a first step, we need to disrupt the status quo that’s embedded in the education system by developing new ways of looking at things that transform the world.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2016

Educators point to the ability to learn from colleagues, in addition to experts, as essential for enhancing their abilities. Basically, they’ll be forming a PLN for the session, and hopefully, many of them will become permanent members of each other’s personal learning networks.”. Personalized Learning Roundtable.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) have long supported teachers in their career development, but with the help of technology, they’re now transforming education itself. We spoke with educators around the country and discovered seven ways that PLCs are transforming teaching and learning in schools.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. Exploring the relationships between professional learning community, teacher and student characteristics.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 6, 2015

” Excuses and opinions will not do anything to change systems. Question: why are we perpetuating an out of date system? Students walk into school and suddenly feel a disconnect: Learning is confined to a schedule and a chair. The system is about a 1-size fits all approach. Professional Learning.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Educators, and those interested in technology in general would do well to peruse all the episodes here in TeacherCast Broadcast Network! This is such a great teaching/learning resource. A great place to learn new EdTech tools, and to build your PLN (Personal Learning Network)! Always something new!

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 7, 2019

We also have adopted the Google Suite for Education and have a Learning Management System. The first thing I suggest is becoming a connected educator and make use of social media to build a Professional Learning Network (PLN). In our lower school, our classrooms are 1:1 iPads. 10.18122/td/1379/boisestate.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 8, 2016

For a paradigm shift to occur and be sustained it must be driven by change agents who are willing to disrupt the status quo embedded in the global education system. Technology now allows for professional learning to take place anytime, anywhere, and with anyone. This sounds great in theory, but it won’t just happen.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Editor Description: “Connected learning communities are a three-pronged approach to effective professional development using the local (professional learning community), contextual (personal learning network), and global (community of practice) environments.

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