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Connected Educator - Keynote Union School District
This document discusses Dr. Chris McGee and what it means to be connected. It emphasizes the importance of professional learning networks (PLNs) and recommends programs offering 30-100 hours of professional development spread over 6-12 months based on research. It provides McGee's contact information and social media handles. Images are included showing concepts like building a PLN, hashtags for different topics, and ideas for consuming, lurking and connecting to become more connected.
Connected Educator - Keynote Union School District
- 1. “CONNECTED EDUCATOR” Dr. ChrisMcGee @cmcgee200
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- 4. WHAT DOES ITMEAN TO “BE CONNECTED”
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- 17. RESEARCH SHOWS THATIN LEARNING THE “LARGEST EFFECTS WERE FOUND FOR PROGRAMS OFFERING BETWEEN 30 AND 100 HOURS SPREAD OUT OVER 6-12 MONTHS.” (DARLING-HAMMOND, 2009)
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- 19. IN THE SAMETOPIC
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- 65. THINGS THAT IHAVEN’T TRIED YET, BUT LOOK COOL
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- 72. BECOMING CONNECTED • CONSUME •LURK • CONNECT
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Editor's Notes
- #2 Welcome
- #3 About me
- #4 Most importantly, Dad
- #5 Let’s start with who do you learn from?
- #6 Who do you learn from?
- #7 Ecosystem of Learning
- #8 What does it mean
- #9 Do this, put you in the center of a piece of paper or use an app like padlet/mindmeister.
- #10 Connect yourself to the people who you learn from.
- #11 When I first started teaching this was my ecosystem
- #12 Common ideas, echo chamber, nothing new/innovative/interesting….safe
- #13 When we analyze this as a part of a full day workshop
- #14 analyze all the connections teacher to teach and teacher to digital world we learn a valuable lesson about how strong our networks are.
- #16 Not Electrophoresis gel. Learning happens in education.
- #17 Never going to get change at this rate
- #21 Need a constant drip, an IV bag, something that’s constantly feeding us information, new ideas, innovative, risky, exciting opportunities to change our thinking
- #22 Being connected means we can learn from anyone, anywhere, at any time.
- #23 The hard part is plugging in. Be open to thinking differently and being willing to connect.
- #24 Beware of the Crab Mentality. Those around you will discount, discredit and try to lure you back into the echo chamber. Like crabs in a bucket.
- #25 You have a chance with being connected. You have a chance to be the outlier. To do things differently, to think differently, to dive into new resources.
- #26 Studies show, You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. Take a moment. Does that scare you?
- #27 Challenge myself like I challenge you today. Choose to find the best, be a round the best, learn form the best, wherever they are.
- #28 Because I’m connected I get the opportunity to reach out and ask for help. I ask for help from some of the biggest names in education. Here’s Dan Pink
- #29 Aaron Sams - inventor of the flipped classroom
- #30 sorry, but I was trying to communicate my stance, being connected opens doors, influence thinking and changes what you believe is possible.
- #31 Phase 1 - Where do we start? Consumption
- #32 Sign up to get email updates
- #33 Farnam Street - what’s bes that other people have figured out Ed Surge - Edtech newsletter 21st Century - Innovative practices Pink - Business Marshall - Things that were on Twitter a week ago struggle with using email - lost in to do list
- #34 taking those same sites and subscribing using an RSS feed
- #35 My favorite, read, share, tag, organize, etc.
- #36 You can also use FlipBoard. It’s a beautiful way to make websites look like a magazine and make reading enjoyable
- #37 Podcasts - my new favorite iPhone/iPad
- #38 Tons of great options - TV/radio show that feeds seamlessly into your mobile device.
- #39 If you do nothing. Spend 10-20 minutes a week, maybe even a day. Need something to do for lent? Watch one a day. Watching these will change you.
- #40 After you are done consuming, start an account on a social networking site. Phase 2 - involves Lurking. Lurking gives you time to figure out what to say, when to say it.
- #41 Phase 3 - After lurking reach out to Connect.
- #42 Develop a Professional Learning Network
- #43 3 types of PLNs
- #44 Use twitter to develop a PLN
- #45 This is manuel and bob. Both members of the Connected learning team. We were hanging out at a local establishment. They look like they are ignoring each other but actually
- #46 Bob working on a tweet
- #47 Participating in #moedchat. Twitter chat where missouri educators get together and each week there is a new topic of conversation and you can add, lurk, or challenge others.
- #48 #edchat is where all educators go to interact, but you can find a hashtag that fits what you need to flu your IV bag of new tools, resources, contact, etc. In fact hashtags are really taking over.
- #49 Recently read the book. Gary Vaynerchuck about using social media and his main message is simple.
- #50 Jab, Jab, Jab - means give, give, give
- #51 Giving is the key to being connected.
- #52 Worst thing in the world.
- #53 Facebook is also used to connect
- #54 One of my favorite is Edchat.
- #55 Edchat is a great resource supporting you if you’re on facebook. Problem is with Facebook’s algorithm. That has changed the wa information gets to you, so you may miss a story.
- #56 Not on twitter of Facebook. Those are a little to “open” for you. Check one of these. Ed PLN - site dedicated to the support of a Personal Learning Network for Educators Class2.0 - community for educators using Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies Edmodo - Social networking for educators, students and connecting with one another. Flipped - Networking for flipped educators
- #57 Kagan - even a discussion board for collaborative strategies.
- #58 Have a gmail account?
- #59 In the upper right, hit the + button
- #60 Google Communities fantastic way to engage with educates and learn collabortively.
- #61 Tons of great resources, something for everyone,
- #62 discover new ways to connect with educators.
- #63 Pinterest is a great tool to connect with other educators
- #64 Curate content to share with others Organize ideas for a topic Collaborate with shared boards involve students. Allow them to build boards (age appropriate)
- #65 It is, it should be and you should advocate for time to do it.
- #66 Tons of great stuff added to the web every day. TeachAde is a helpful community for educators and teachers that provides free educational resources where educators and teachers can share information, EDUCLIPPER - educational need for teachers and students to have a better platform to explore, share, and contribute resources and materials to help enhance teaching and learning of both a formal and personal nature Teaching Channel - videos of teachers teaching and reflecting on their lesson. WOW.
- #67 Enjoy more F2f
- #68 joke
- #69 Meet up
- #70 Events personalized for you to develop your PLN
- #71 EdcampSTL - FREE!
- #72 Next event
- #74 Phase 1 - Consume Phase 2 - Lurk Phase 3 - Connect Phase 4 - Create and share
- #76 Give to others, and you are selfless, and you’ve separated yourself from the pack, and
- #77 most importantly you have something to say, something to give, something to add
- #78 What can you do when you get home, or learn aout later today?
- #79 Become a master learner
- #80 If you want some excuses, pick one, google 500 reasons not to change
- #81 Remember how we told you about the 5? Now go find the 5 people that do your job better than you, connect with them
- #82 don’t do it for me
- #83 Isa will in your kindergarten class in 4 years
- #84 be the outlier
- #85 We live in a connected world, join us