A professional learning network

Are you ready to read and write and discuss ideas with people daily? Are you ready to get help polishing ideas, and hopefully help others polish theirs. Are you ready to maintain multiple ongoing discussions covering a variety of topics. Karl Fisch wrote “Ideally, this would also describe schools; places that were not defined as much by prescribed curricula, but by a climate of intellectual curiosity and a culture of ideas, where good ideas influence other good ideas.” He wrote this three days ago.
The idea of a community of learners is not new, but the ways in which we can connect and collaborate has shifted. Face to face meetings hold less and less value; in fact they are quickly becoming a really insufficient way to get things done.
The big million dollar question is what does all of this mean to schools – to the way we teach and to the way we learn. Knowledge has become as accessible as air, all of the answers are out there; now it is the questions that are important. And the great questions will take multiple people to answer – where do you find your answers or better yet how?

Digital Immigrants or Natives

How long will people hide behind their age? I was not born in a large city, but I am quickly learning how to navigate one. Sure time has changed, but at some point you are expected to change with it. Do you want to go to a doctor who has not changed in twenty years?

Keeping up with the times is expected in any profession, and education shouldn't be any different.