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Jun 18 2013 ∞

Teachers Speaking up AGAIN! on Teachers Teaching Teachers - Join us - Wed. 6/19 9PM ET/6PM PT

edtechtalk.com/ttt Wed. 6.19 9PM ET/6PM PT Teachers Speaking Up:@AndreaZellner, @KSchulten, @StevenZemelman,& Jen Ochoa #NWP

We’ve also invited the guests from our most recent conversation on these issues: TTT#351 Teachers Speaking Up w/ Jesse Hagopian, Diana Laufenberg, José Vilson, Steven Zemelman, Pat Delaney, Maribeth Whitehouse http://edtechtalk.com/node/5198

Listen to TTT#351, then join us at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt at 9PM ET/6PM PT/ http://goo.gl/bh4hp

Looking forward! If you would like to join us in the Hangout-on-Air, please let us know.

Jun 16 2013 ∞

We invite you to consider how you might speak up a bit more, tell your stories as a teacher, and assert your leadership. On this week’s episode of TTT (recorded 5/29/13), we talk about how, when, why, and where to speak up! We discuss how teachers become leaders by loosing fear, speaking up, telling their stories, and taking collective action. Join us for the next installment of a series of shows about teachers speaking up on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 9PM ET/6PM PT.

Our guests on this episode are:

Jesse Hagpian, Diana Laufenberg, Jose Vilson, Steve Zemelman, Patrick Delaney, Maribeth Whitehouse

Jesse Hagopian, a high school history teacher and union representative at Garfield High School who refused to administer the MAP standardized test in January. Recently, the school district backed down, announcing that the Measures of Academic Progress, or MAP test, is now optional for high schools. http://iamaneducator.com/ | https://twitter.com/JessedHagopian. Jesse is a public high school teacher in Seattle and a founding member of Social Equality Educators (SEE). He is a contributing author to Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation and 101 Changemakers: Rebels and Radicals Who Changed US History (Haymarket Books). Hagopian serves on the Board of Directors of Maha-Lilo—“Many Hands, Light Load”—a Haiti solidarity organization.

Diana Laufenberg describes herself as a farm kid turned Science Leadership Academy teache, now taking a year to consult, travel and learn. http://laufenberg.wordpress.com/ | https://twitter.com/dlaufenberg. She has taught all grade levels from 7-12 in Social Studies and she has most recently been a teacher with the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, an inquiry-driven, project-based high school focused on modern learning. Diana’s practice has deep roots in experiential education, taking students from the classroom to the real world and back again. Before finding her way to Philadelphia, she was an active member of the teaching community in Flagstaff, AZ where she was named Technology Teacher of the Year for Arizona and a member of the Governor’s Master Teacher Corps. Recently Diana was featured on TED.com for the “How to Learn? From Mistakes” talk and recognized for earning National Board Certification. Her publications include a featured piece on the New York Times Learning blog, co-authoring a chapter in an educational leadership book, an upcoming article in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy and regular contributions to teachinghistory.org.

José Luis Vilson is a math educator for a middle school in the Inwood / Washington Heights neighborhood of New York, NY. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Syracuse University and a master’s degree in mathematics education from the City College of New York. He’s also a committed writer, activist, web designer, and father. He co-authored the book Teaching 2030: What We Must Do For Our Students and Public Schools … Now and In The Future with Dr. Barnett Berry and 11 other accomplished teachers. He currently serves as the president emeritus of the Latino Alumni Network of Syracuse University, as a board member on the Board of Directors for the Center for Teaching Quality, and has been a part of the Acentos Foundation, LATinos In Social Media (LATISM), the Capicu Poetry Group, BlogCritics, and the AfroSpear.He writes for Edutopia, GOOD, and TransformED / Future of Teaching, and has written for CNN.com, Education Week, Huffington Post, and El Diario / La Prensa NY. He has also spoken at TEDxNYED and the Save Our Schools March.- See more at: http://thejosevilson.com/about/#sthash.VTpt98UX.dpuf

Steven Zemelman, one of the conveners of http://teachersspeakup.com/ and much more. Steve directs the Illinois Writing Project, and works to build long-term sustainability of school improvement. He works on literacy, whole-school development, and teacher leadership. With several partners he has written numerous professional texts, including the latest edition of Best Practice now subtitled Bringing Standards to Life in America’s Classrooms; plus 13 Steps to Teacher Empowerment: Taking a More Active Role in Your School Community; Content Area Writing: Every Teacher’s Guide; Subjects Matter: Every Teacher’s Guide to Content Area Reading; Rethinking High School; History Comes Home: Family Stories Across the Curriculum; and A Community of Writers: Teaching Composition in the Junior and Senior High School. Formerly he directed the Center for City Schools at National-Louis University.

Patrick Delaney is a recently retired librarian from Galileo Academy of Science and Technology in San Francisco. He has been a Bay Area Writing Project (CA) teacher-consultant for decades, and has been a leader in technology work in the National Writing Project. Pat has been a mentor and a friend of educational bloggers and collective teacher voice for many years. Here’s where to find him now: Weeding the Collection.

Maribeth Whitehouse is a special education teacher at IS 190 in the Bronx. She is in her ninth year of teaching eighth grade. She is a teacher-leader in Lehman College’s Mathematics Teacher Transfromation Institutes. Maribeth publishes under a few different pseudonymns as well as under her own name, for example: “Measuring My Value” | https://plus.google.com/117378500106053922800/posts

Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

May 24 2013 ∞

In Community: We can do better … and Youth Voices is doing it! Please give a gift to make it happen.

seecantrill:

Back in February I wrote a blog post about a Connected Learning webinar that was interesting to me mostly because of the contributions of Chappelle Campbell, a student at The Bronx Academy Senior High. and her teacher Paul Allison, an English Teacher at the same school and a member of the New…

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May 22 2013 ∞

Open letter to David Karp from a teacher in the Bronx

Dear David Karp:

You may not remember this conversation, http://www.teachersteachingteachers.org/microblogging-our-way-toward-global-awareness-ttt90-020608/ but I just listened to it again, and — 5 years later — we’re still learning from you!

We’re learning how our students can post quickly, often, in the middle of their inquiries. And we’re learning how the connections they find when they do this change their inquiries. And much more.

You walked away from a a public school in the Bronx when you were 15. What students and teachers alike can learn from your example is that we must find ways for students to find and to follow their passions — even for students who (for a number of complex social-economic reasons) don’t have the option to drop out of school.

I want to invite you to rejoin the public schools in the Bronx by supporting scholarships for 15 high school students so that they can follow their passions and work within a social network this summer at Lehman College in the Bronx.

We need your help to offer a free Youth Voices Summer Program that will make it possible for youth to find and explore their passions in the supported, connected, academic environment of Lehman College, CUNY. http://incited.org/projects/17

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Apr 30 2013 ∞

Join the conversation on Teachers Teaching Teachers, Wed., May 1, 9PM ET/6PM PT

TTT this week, Wed., May 1 promises to be a relaxed, spring conversation about what a small group of teachers are up to.

If you’ve ever wanted to join us at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt , this is the week to jump in!

Just come ready to answer: What have you been noticing? What dreams are you working to make come true? What connections are you makeing with people and ideas? What are you doing that’s awesome?

Please come prepared to talk about YOU and your work with students tomorrow, Wednesday at 9PM ET/6PM PT/ http://goo.gl/K7tuw .

We’ve got room for you! Remember, it’s best to have ear buds, if possible.

And if you know of anybody else who might want to join us, please let them know that will be a relaxed, how-are-you-doing week on TTT, and invite them for us!

Here’s some of the people who will be — or wil be trying their best — to join us at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt on Wednesday, May 1 at 9PM ET/6PM PT/ http://goo.gl/K7tuw

monika hardy, Jo Paraiso, Joan Stewart, Jim Nordlinger, Paul Allison, Chad Sansing, and Richard Capozzi

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Apr 09 2013 ∞

Learn about the International Democratic Education Conference, Aug 4-8, Boulder, CO on TTT Wed. 4.10 9PM ET/6PM PT

Orginizers from IDEA http://democraticeducation.org & IDEC http://idec2013.org on edtechtalk.com/ttt Wed 4.10 9PM ET/6PM PT/ http://goo.gl/tsL2F #NWP

Join us! We’ll be sharing/conversing/thinking aloud about the IDEC conference coming up in August at Colorado University, Boulder.

IDEC, now in its 21st year, is hosted by teams of educators from different countries and continents. This is the first time in ten years that it has been held in the U.S. Democratic education is not a type of school or research-based practice.

It isn’t one kind of learning program or philosophy. It is a frame. There are thousands of people and organizations around the globe engaged in democratic education. IDEC 2013 is for all of them.

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Paul Allison, Monika Hardy, and Chris Sloan

Apr 02 2013 ∞

Do a walkthrough of P2PU’s new badge platform with Vanessa Gennarelli and Dirk Uys on TTT - Wed. 4/3 6PM ET/3PM PT

On http://edtechtalk.com/ttt P2PU’s @mozzadrella & Dirk Uys will discuss http://badges.p2pu.org 4/3, 6PM ET/3PM PT/ http://goo.gl/Ix0pE #NWP

Note the earlier time for this episode of TTT.

A couple of weeks ago, on the P2PU blog, Vanessa Gennarelli wrote about P2PU’s launch of a New Version of Badges:

As Grantees of the Digital Media and Learning Competition http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/winners.php , Peer 2 Peer University has created a platform for anyone who wants to make and issue Badges. We launched badges.p2pu.org at the DML Conference in Chicago last week to an amazing response. Folks were very receptive to our project-based and feedback-driven approach. Here’s a bit of a walkthrough on what that means, and how you can use it.

Read more http://goo.gl/bWSER, then join us at Teachers Teaching Teachers http://edtechtalk.com/ttt on April 3, 2013 at 6PM ET/3PM PT/World Times: http://goo.gl/Ix0pE

Note the earlier time for this episode of TTT.

Also look the these other heros of open education and open badges and P2PU who will be joining us!

If you would like to join us in the Hangout, just let us know. There are a few slots left.

Mar 12 2013 ∞

A Year at Mission Hill on TTT - Wed. 3.13 at 9PM ET/6PM PT

Discuss http://ayearatmissionhill.com on TTT http://edtechtalk.com/ttt @dloitz Wed 3/13 9PM ET/6 PM PT http://goo.gl/kuMmk

Ten videos. One year. A public school trying to help children learn and grow. The national conversation we need to be having.

Monika Hardy and Chris Sloan host David Loitz who welcomes director, Amy Valens along with Jabreel Chisley and Awo Okaikor Aryee-Price and others (perhaps you!) on this episode of TTT.

Our friends at the Institue for Democratic Education in America http://democraticeducation.org/index.php/features/missionhill/ write:

At IDEA, we’re proud to be one of the partners behind “A Year at Mission Hill.” The project began when filmmakers Tom and Amy Valens spent a year filming at the school community of Mission Hill, with plans for a full documentary release in fall 2013. The web series came together when Tom and Amy reached out to educator and news commentator Sam Chaltain. Sam brought together http://Ashokaashoka.org, IDEA, and the NoVo Foundation http://novofoundation.org around the idea of making a series of short episodes to highlight a year in the life of Mission Hill. Under IDEA’s leadership, the concept grew into a larger opportunity to share the story across an eclectic coalition of education organizations, schools, and nonprofits. Currently, more than 40 community partners http://ayearatmissionhill.com/index.php/partners will be sharing the film series and offering their own resources to deepen viewers’ learning around each chapter.

Maybe you are like Chris Sloan who says, “I’m hooked on the videos A Year at Mission Hill, looking forward to Part 4!”

Or maybe you’re just learning of this effort to reimagine public education.

Either way, we invite you to join this important conversation on TTT at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt on Wednesday, March 13th at 9PM ET/6PM PT/World Times: http://goo.gl/kuMmk

A Year at Mission Hill: Reimagining Public Education - a Prezi by Sam Chaltain

Mar 05 2013 ∞

@MsSandersTHS @WhittMister& Jonathan Carlisle - http://edtechtalk.com/ttt to discuss youthconvertsculture.com Wed 3.6 9PM ET/6PM PT/ http://goo.gl/Zrrxa

Teachers +Beth Sanders and +Daniel Whitt and high school senior +Jonathan Carlisle join us to talk about Youth Converts Culture http://youthconvertsculture.com on TTT http://edtechtalk.com/ttt - Wed. 3.6 at 9PM ET/6PM PT/World Times: http://goo.gl/Zrrxa

Youth Converts Culture (YCC) is an Alabama-based initiative combining technology with empathy to push education forward. YCC believes that empathy, student voice, and social awareness should drive instruction in the 21st Century. The YCC panel (brought to you in partnership with IDEA—the Institute for Democratic Education in America) will focus on constructing new, responsible, and engaging learning strategies designed to empower our youth to grow, communicate, and learn in a way that is congruent to who they are at their root: global citizens connected to the world as pioneering digital natives.

Daniel Whitt is a teacher, a digital media specialist, a filmmaker, and a social activist living in Madison, Alabama. He is Co-Founder/Co-Director of Youth Converts Culture.

Beth Sanders is a teacher, a technology consultant, and a social activist living in Birmingham, Alabama. She is Co-Founder/Co-Director of Youth Converts Culture.

Jonathan Carlisle is a senior at Francis Marion High School in Marion, Alabama. He is a Senior Fellow for IDEA (Institute for Democratic Education in America) and one of the first student participants of a Youth Converts Culture experience.

Please join us at edtechtalk.com/ttt - Wed. 3.6 at 9PM ET/6PM PT/World Times: http://goo.gl/Zrrxa

Check out who will be joining us. If you would like to join this group in the Hangout, let us know!

Chris Sloan, monika hardy, Beth Sanders, Paul Allison, Al Elliott, Daniel Whitt, Jonathan Carlisle, and Debbie Simms

Feb 19 2013 ∞

Hack “A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age” http://goo.gl/9pIiq with us on TTT at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt Wed. 2.20.13 at 9PM ET/6PM PT/World Times: http://goo.gl/6fM15. Join this outstanding group of framers and educators, listed here:
Chris Sloan, monika hardy, Karen Fasimpaur, Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, Paul Allison, Timothy Burke, Jack West, Audrey Watters, Cathy Davidson, Anya Kamenetz, and Bonnie Stewart

Feb 12 2013 ∞

On this Wednseday, 2.13.13, join Joel Malley @joelmalley and Jennifer Woollven @mswoollven for a very special TTT episode where we’ll be discussing Connected Learning and our OLE (Online Learning Experience) sponsored by the National Writing Project http://connect.nwp.org/online-learning-connected-learning. (Anybody can join the OLE. Just come to TTT and let us know.)

We invite you to join the panel in the Hangout, so if you’re interested comment in this post and we’ll set it up.

If you’d rather hang out in the chat then that is cool too. Meet us over at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt at 9PM ET/6PM PT/World Times: http://goo.gl/zRPHq

You can get into the conversation in the chat and your questions and comments can help guide the conversation.

That’s this Wednesday at 9pm ET/6PM PT/World Time: http://goo.gl/zRPHq

Feb 05 2013 ∞

Digital Badges, P2PU, Open Badge Backpacks and Youth Voices on TTT, Wed. 2.6.13 9PM ET/6PM PT

Finish Digital Learning Day http://www.digitallearningday.org/ with us on TTT, thinking about digital badges. Join us at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt on Wednesday, 2.6.13 at 9PM ET/6PM PT/World Times: http://goo.gl/kLkut

Wow! I’m looking to reflect on a the use of badges in my high school English class, and look who I got to join me:

+Anthony Flores http://youthvoices.net/users/anthonyf - One of the first students to earn 15 badges and earn a credit in English: http://youthvoices.net/play

+Emily Goligoski, Open Badges Design & Community Lead at the Mozilla foundation who can help us think about Mozilla’s Open Badge Infrastructure and Badge Backpacks. http://openbadges.org/en-US/

+Vanessa Gennarelli, a Learning Lead at Peer 2 Peer University who is keeping track of P2PU’s Badges project. http://goo.gl/RQDzH

+Christina Cantrill who works with the National Writing Project and directs the Digital Is project http://digitalis.nwp.org

+Karen Fasimpaur who currently runs a small educational technology company that works with mobile technology integration in schools.http://www.k12handhelds.com/ She also runs the K12 Open Ed web sitehttp://www.k12opened.com/blog/ and more!

+monika hardy, +Chris Sloan and +Paul Allison will host, although I asked Karen if she would facilitate this episode of TTT because we want to talk about our experiments with badges, using P2PU, Open Badge Backpacks, and Youth Voices.

Come help us figure out what we’ve been up to!

Join us at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt on Wednesday, 2.6.13 at 9PM ET/6PM PT/World Times: http://goo.gl/kLkut

Jan 29 2013 ∞

What would you tell an 18-year old who’s thinking about becoming an English Teacher? TTT - Wed. 1.30 at 9PM ET/6PM PT

Join us on TTT in a conversation about the future of the teaching and schooling in general on Wednesday, 1/30 at 6PM PT/9PM ET.

The idea for this week’s episode of TTT came about when +Andrew McGuire, a student of +Chris Sloan’s who had graduated from high school last year, told Chris that he wants to be an English teacher. But he wants a different kind of education than a lot of what he has received.

He’s an education reformer at heart, and a lot of what he described as his ideal educational environment aligns with some of the people who’ve joined us on Teachers Teaching Teachers recently. He’s talking about connected learning in third spaces that involve a maker approach and is inquiry-based. So what would you tell an 18-year old who’s thinking about becoming an English teacher? Not only what Andrew and others like him should study, but how they should go about their teacher education?

This show will be broadcast using Google Hangouts on Wednesday, 1/30, at 9PM ET/6PM PT/World Times: http://goo.gl/ilERC

Along with Andrew Maguire here some of the educators we have invited to join us: Troy Hicks, Meenoo Rami, Chad Sansing, Mike Murawski, Chris Lehmann, Zac Chase, Patricia Swank, and YOU!

Jan 22 2013 ∞

On this week’s TTT - Wed. 1.23.13, Monika Hardy and her students lead us in a be lab update: site, book, travels: http://redefineschool.com Please join the students and educators listed below at edtechtalk.com/ttt on Wed. 1.23.13 at 9PM ET/6PM PT/World Times: http://goo.gl/egPyq

+monika hardy and +Paul Allison will host +Antero Garcia, +Beth Sanders, +Cristian Leobardo, +erika auger, +Gregory Hill, +Kelsey Shelhart, +Scott Shelhart and Bill Mathis… and YOU!

http://youtu.be/6errhY6tt-4

Jan 15 2013 ∞

Gooru on TTT Wed. 1.16.13 9PM ET/6PM PT

Come find out more about Gooru goorulearning.org on Wed. 1.16.13 at 9PM ET/6PM PT/World Times: http://goo.gl/5Vr8M at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt

How do you teach with Gooru? We’ll be talking with teachers who use Gooru in their classrooms and want to connect and collaborate with other teachers. Hear from Gooru power users, share best practices, exchange ideas, and tell the Gooru team what we can do to improve Gooru for you.

Check out Gooru through the lens of this analysis of OER Project Blue Sky: Big Boost to OER From … Pearson? http://mfeldstein.com/project-blue-sky-big-boost-to-oer-from-pearson/

We’ll be joined by @jackcwest @gooruteacher Xenia Shiah: http://www.linkedin.com/in/xshih , Jody Donovan, @leahousdIT and YOU!

Join us at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt at 9PM ET/6PM PT/World Times: http://goo.gl/5Vr8M on Wednesday 1.16.13