![Who are we? Larry Kahn The Kinkaid School Houston, Texas Email: larry.kahn@kinkaid.org Twitter: @ larrykahn Diigo: larrykahn Skype: larry.kahn Facebook: Larry Kahn LinkedIn: Larry Kahn Independent School's Educator's Network: Larry Kahn ISTE Community Ning: Larry Kahn Blogs: New Things New Ways Audio-didact Chris Bigenho The Greenhill School Addison, Texas Email 1: [email_address] Email 2: [email_address] Twitter: @bigenhoc Skype: chris_bigenho AIM: chris bigenho Yahoo: chris_bigenho Tapped In: ChrisWB Diigo: bigenhoc Blogs: Life in the Renaissance NAIS Annual Conference Online Community Susan Davis Chinquapin Preparatory School Highlands, Texas Email: [email_address] Twitter: @ suludavis Skype: susanlucilledavis Facebook: Susan Lucille Davis Flickr: susanlucilledavis Diigo: suludavis LinkedIn: Susan Lucille Davis Blogs: Chinquablog The Flying Trapeze (with Renee Hawkins)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/disrupttheolddiscourseleveragingafaculty-110301113639-phpapp02/85/Disrupt-the-old_discourse_leveraging_a_faculty-2-320.jpg)
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- 1. Disrupt the Old Discourse: Leveraging a Faculty's Personal Learning Communities NAIS Annual Conference Washington, DC February 25, 2011 http://tinyurl.com/naisac11dd
- 2. Who are we? Larry Kahn The Kinkaid School Houston, Texas Email: larry.kahn@kinkaid.org Twitter: @ larrykahn Diigo: larrykahn Skype: larry.kahn Facebook: Larry Kahn LinkedIn: Larry Kahn Independent School's Educator's Network: Larry Kahn ISTE Community Ning: Larry Kahn Blogs: New Things New Ways Audio-didact Chris Bigenho The Greenhill School Addison, Texas Email 1: [email_address] Email 2: [email_address] Twitter: @bigenhoc Skype: chris_bigenho AIM: chris bigenho Yahoo: chris_bigenho Tapped In: ChrisWB Diigo: bigenhoc Blogs: Life in the Renaissance NAIS Annual Conference Online Community Susan Davis Chinquapin Preparatory School Highlands, Texas Email: [email_address] Twitter: @ suludavis Skype: susanlucilledavis Facebook: Susan Lucille Davis Flickr: susanlucilledavis Diigo: suludavis LinkedIn: Susan Lucille Davis Blogs: Chinquablog The Flying Trapeze (with Renee Hawkins)
- 3. Chris Bigenho on Spezify
- 4. Larry Kahn on Social Graph
- 5. Susan Davis at the Persona Project, MIT
- 6. Tweet this session... #naisac11 #ddchat
- 7. Online follow-up workshops... Grow your own PLN March 3, 2011 8 p.m. EST March 10, 2011 8 p.m. EST Sign up: http://tinyurl.com/naisac11ddsurvey
- 8. Why disrupt the old discourse? Changing the conversation about change... The shift towards constructing our own learning by learning from PLNs Amplify the voices of change agents...
- 9. "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education."
- 10. The case for PLNs: Teaching is... Art Craft Practice Profession
- 11. The case for PLNs $ PD Diversity Pool PLN
- 13. Traditional approach to PLN
- 15. A new approach to PLNs
- 16. No borders approach to PLNs
- 18. It's not all burgers and fries...
- 19. PLN/CoP
- 20. Welcome to my PLN
- 22. Before disruption... Teachers not talking to one other much about pedagogy Innovation not necessarily known about or celebrated Each classroom and dept. isolated from others Simon Varwell, "The Faculty Room"
- 23. Disrupting the discourse: Inside-out Empowering in-house experts Teacher leaders
- 24. Starting a PLN... Teacher leaders connect with teacher leaders from other schools...
- 25. Disrupting the discourse: In-house PD Designed & implemented by faculty
- 26. Changing the conversation... Collaboration among divisions Teachers really learn and own tools (Skype, Ning, etc.) Learning via the right tool for the right situation
- 27. The change feeds more change... Teachers invite outside experts into their classrooms
- 28. The discourse expands... Cross-discipline and cross-divisional conversation leads to deeper discussion about pedagogy
- 29. Modeling a PLN -- Vanessa Zamudio, Upper School Spanish teacher nimanh "I used to see my classroom as four walls. Now I see my classroom as a window."
- 31. Before disruption... A different kind of school How to bring the shift to a faculty with little experience anywhere else?
- 32. Disrupting the discourse: Outside-in Chinquapin Urban Teaching Fellows Listening and learning from each other (Ning)
- 33. Grafting a different kind of conversation... Learning from the best teachers Outside voices Blogging, Twitter The #Edchat model Exploring new Nings
- 34. Unexpected pushback ... I'm lurking in my girlfriend's network... I'm still mastering the basics... I find Twitter frustrating. .. I already have a network that works for me...
- 35. Learning curves... Learning how to be transparent Finding the right tool Patience and persistence
- 36. The learning spreads... Open reflection and sharing of resources Asking the right questions about best practices
- 37. PLN out of the closet.... -- Amulya Iyer, "Online Education Resources/Conversations" "One thing I learned early on in my year at Chinquapin is that teaching is too difficult an endeavor to take on in isolation. For all teachers, but especially first year teachers, relying on colleagues in your school and outside of your school is imperative."
- 38. The Online Workshops Topics: Blogs, Reflection, Microblogs, Information Management, Big Ideas, Tips for seeding PLN Dates: March 3rd and March 10th (8-9 eastern standard time)
Editor's Notes
- #2: Show Wiki while people are coming in. Tell People to relax We have lots of resources available online. For the first time at an NAIS conference we are offering two follow up online sessions to this session.
- #7: 121 characters left to work with
- #8: multiple ways to signup: - wiki (on bookmark?) -paper -card
- #9: Isolation: Speaking out in the wilderness? Preaching to the converted? Closing the doors to a private club?
- #24: Cross-divisional team
- #26: link to page from wiki
- #27: teachers learn the tools first in the context of their lives. They own them before they take them to the classroom. The right tool... Pedagogy 1st! then the tool.
- #29: The Personal Learning Networks Intertwine and build a Learning Community
- #30: NAIS Schools of future doc. Page 27 talks about how classrooms should no longer be constrained by 4 walls. I talked about how this worked at a large NAIS school. The beauty of PLNs is that they can help shift the faculty of any sized school. Susan will tell you the story of how PLNs helped transform a faculty at a different school. Susan...
- #32: How to change the conversation at an isolated, tiny school on a shoestring budget for children from poverty?ow to change the conversation at an isolated, tiny school on a shoestring budget for children from poverty?
- #34: New nings: Independent School Educator's ning Classroom 2.0 English Companion Ning and others (See Wiki)
- #38: Amulya as closet tweeter, because he didn't want to admit to his peers that Susan was right. He has since come out of the closet.