A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 17, 2021

At the individual level, intrinsic motivation drives educators to actively seek opportunities that support their diverse learning interests and needs. Social media has played a considerable role in this area over the years, demonstrating the power of Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) with learning anytime, anywhere, and with anyone.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 17, 2022

Now more than ever, it’s the perfect time to find inspiration, add more professionals to your personal learning network (PLN) and discover new teaching and learning tools to enhance your practice. We’re honored that CYPHER LEARNING’s NEO is a finalist for the Higher Education – Digital Learning Product category.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 15, 2022

Over the years, I have noticed that student engagement tends to decrease in my classes around this time and I reach out to my personal learning network (PLN) for ideas or tools to boost engagement. Read more: How to set up a classroom gamification level system.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 28, 2024

Successful change often requires navigating complex systems and overcoming entrenched challenges. Collaboration provides the necessary support network to weather these storms. This includes prep periods, common planning time, and professional learning opportunities, which I will elaborate on later in this post.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2019

I have also been blessed to observe great examples that members of my Personal Learning Network (PLN) make available on social media. On the contrary, I have seen this firsthand from some fantastic educators whose schools I have been blessed to work with on a long-term basis in the role of job-embedded coach.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 10, 2020

Here are some of my thoughts from 2013 , which have aged nicely: Digital leadership considers recent changes such as ubiquitous connectivity, open-source technology, mobile devices, and personalization. You can’t re-envision or transform education if professional learning doesn’t change.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

If you are a leader looking to do so, begin to have conversations with your teachers, and more importantly your students, to collaboratively create a system that works for learners as opposed to one that just acts to control them. View this post as a call to action.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In fact, they find much more than tips and tricks online, they find a veritable support system. Schools might be concerned about the lack of interaction in online learning. building a personal learning network online. Online learning is not about absorbing information in front of a screen.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

With so much going on in terms of personalizing each student’s learning experience, there’s one thing that’s easy to overlook while chasing the best outcomes: the learning needs of teachers. Some swear by their PLNs (Personal Learning Networks) or CoPs (Communities of Practice).

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 31, 2011

The knowledge that I have acquired from my Personal Learning Network (PLN) provided me with the ideas and strategies to utilize student cell phones as mobile learning devices. Image credit: [link] Last year some of my teachers began to utilize student devices as tools for learning, mainly as student response systems.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Why spend money on expensive information delivery systems when you can use Twitter for free? After lurking and learning for a little while, I quickly discovered this vibrant community of passionate educators actively collaborating to improve educational practices. As my network has grown, so has my growth as an educational leader.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

BYOL – Bring Your Own Learning. CMS – Content Management System (a tool to build websites and apps). IOT – Internet of Things (Connecting devices to a network i.e. lights, phones, TVs). LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). MLD – Mobile Learning Devices.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Social media: platforms like Twitter help teachers build their personal learning network and share teaching tips and tricks. For example, you can use your school’s learning management system (LMS), which is a familiar tool for teachers around the world. Some of them prefer to seek classroom collaborations directly.

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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. Successful and sustained change not only happened, but results followed. We must do this. starting today.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

An entire staff that believes in the power of being connected and the importance of having a Personal Learning Network ( PLN ). Systemic use of a variety of social media tools to communicate with stakeholders and keep them in the know.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 13, 2015

The formation of a Personal Learning Network (PLN) has opened my eyes and mind to an array of ideas, strategies, and tools to support and enhance learning through the assistance of technology. Forcing students and educators to use technology just for the sake of using it will never transform teaching and learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 21, 2016

I sure did and many members of my Personal Learning Network (PLN) still make fun of me for it as I held on a bit longer than most. There are powerful lessons schools can learn from the above stories of disruptive innovation. Learn differently. Let’s look at another example. Think differently.

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The 21st Century Principal

APRIL 9, 2013

School leaders, however, are not encouraged to use Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools as a 21st century announcement system. As a part of the school leader’s library, this book is an excellent strategy guide for engaging in social media as a means to foster personal learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 23, 2018

I’ve been published in Leading and Learning with Technology , and I’m currently co-authoring a book on how teachers can develop a personal learning network using social media and other digital tools. I received my PhD in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University. h ttp://trendsandissues.com.

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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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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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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 12, 2015

What are the school factors that influence student learning and ultimately achievement? How do we get educators and school systems to embrace change as opposed to always fighting for buy-in? Today’s leaders have a great advantage when it comes to learning and that is social media. Improvement that endures over time.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2016

Learning Space Toolkit by North Carolina State University has a system for needs assessment and space planning. Build your Personal Learning Network (PLN) by adding these experts and resources to your social media accounts. Classroom Architect – a Free Classroom floor planner. Build Your Classroom Design PLN.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 3, 2010

The systems that they are proposing, such as those based on merit or performance pay, will ultimately create schools that are stagnant, teach to the test, and crush any desire for innovative practices.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2017

We added new robotics, drones, and video game design, and engaged students using our new Lightspeed audio system. Challenge yourself by asking what you can do to promote 21 st -century learning in your library. There’s no denying that libraries today look a lot different than they did 20 years ago.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2017

As the first certified library media specialist at the district level in this system, I have been busy building a strong standard of practice for our librarians. They advise me on policy and procedures, and provide their professional opinions as “experts on the ground.”.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 17, 2017

Looking to learn something new this summer? Maybe you want to develop your personal learning network on social media, read a few new books , or take a course alongside other educators. Thanks to technology, we can take learning online and collaborate with educators around the country and the world. Starts May 22.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2017

As the first certified library media specialist at the district level in this system, I have been busy building a strong standard of practice for our librarians. They advise me on policy and procedures, and provide their professional opinions as “experts on the ground.”.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In these busy times, look for educators and networks that are creating space for your social-emotional needs. PLNs have been my support system, and at the same time, they have helped me to grow as a professional. By doing this, Masson points out that growth and rest don’t have to be mutually exclusive.

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The 21st Century Principal

APRIL 27, 2011

The iPad increases the level of my connectivity to my school staff and members in my Personal Learning Network. I can use apps such as Skype, Google Talk, Gmail, Google Calendar, Twitter, Linkedin, and Friendly for Facebook to remain connected to the teachers in my building and remain connected to my personal learning network.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 1, 2013

" -Crystal Kirch, My biggest struggle this year High school math teacher Crystal Kirch’s biggest struggle of 2012 was met with both cheers from those who could commiserate as well as jeers from those who were concerned that students were not the culprit, but rather the victims of a system that set them up for failure.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

One of the most valuable assets a 21st Century learner has is their personal learning network (PLN). A lot of what is learned (some claim up to 70 per cent) is informal, and with a powerful enough network of connections to a PLN, there is no limit to what a learner can achieve.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The moderator of the chat will post questions using an alphanumeric system: Q1 for question 1, Q2 for question 2, and so on. Visit my profile, @KtBkr4 , and take a look at who I follow and begin to build your own Personal Learning Network in a few short clicks.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2017

We agreed that the system was broken and it wasn’t just curriculum we wanted to change, it was our relationships with students. The truth is, I’m a difficult person to work with because I’ve got a huge chip on my shoulder. That initial email turned into a dozen more—back and forth. Alex felt the same way I did about at-risk learners.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 16, 2011

If someone had called, I would have said that this is project has at it''s core a mistaken idea: that social media and personal learning networks can be directed from the top down. It''s because these are individual connections created by the individual, and that is their value: they are personal.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

I’ve noticed over the past year that while more and more schools are focusing on social-emotional learning, they still dedicate a majority of time to developing hard and soft skills—and oftentimes forget the social capital piece. There are exceptions.

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