The following post was written by 聽Lisa Fink in partnership with 楼凤天堂 members who volunteered to attend and reflect upon events for Connected Educators Month.聽
Collaboration that leads to powerful professional learning and increased capacity to address educational challenges is more likely to succeed when certain organizational conditions are in place, conditions that are often determined by policies made outside the local context.
The 楼凤天堂 Center for Literacy Education (NCLE) has organized a for improving education during CEM:
Each episode in the series features a model and/or conceptual framework that is yielding promising results and examples of its implementation. Here鈥檚 one interesting quote from the Networked Learning Communities session:
鈥淐ollaborations are not just about exchanging existing knowledge, but also about creating new.”
The about聽the role librarians can play when collaborating with聽students to create new knowledge through capstone projects. Curation team member Gloria Mitchell observed that 鈥渂enefits to the school include increasing students鈥� independence as learners, helping students to become experts in a topic that matters to them, and giving students a way to apply the knowledge they have acquired in their schooling, putting their formal education to real-world use.鈥澛燭he AASL website contains an .
This idea of empowered learning also ran through a session called 聽that Melanie Koss covered. She reflects:
鈥淒igital learning occurs in an ecosystem, it comes from a need to empower learners and educators, to learn skills for success in the workplace and society. The goal is to empower them to become lifelong learners, to learn innovative thinking, and to be considered tech-savvy.
Special thanks to curation team members聽Gloria Mitchell and Melanie Koss for their contributions to this piece.