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Personalized learning is on the rise for learners in our schools. Redesigned schools include personal learning plans, playlists of content tailored to fit each learner, adaptive curriculum, and access to learning anytime and anywhere. That's great for students but what about teachers? Where's the pe 
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Gust MEES's curator insight,
February 6, 2014 11:07 AM
IMHO: Use ICT skills to find out about understanding, through blogs from the students. Make a preparation with a FlowChart about what YOU want students to know and compare it to the obtained results. Make an update of YOUR FlowChart with a new entry "IF => THEN => GO TO" and bring in a new task 2 adjust for BETTER knowledge which YOU apply then with the students. Redo again the blog with the students and find out if it worked. Discuss it with the students and ask them for collaboration as a Home-Work to become BETTER! THEY will learn to get the necessary skills with TEAM-WORK envolved, that will work ;)
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Networked Teachers Unlocking the potential of social networks for professional development Catania October 17th, 2013 Maria Ranieri Dep. of Education and Psycho Via Paulo Simões
Agustin Bastida's curator insight,
October 20, 2013 4:28 PM
La otra parte del engranaje. El docente conectado en red...eTwinner |
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"Critical Thinking" may sound like an obnoxious buzzword from liberal arts schools, but it's actually a useful skill. Critical thinking just means absorbing important information and using that to form a decision or opinion of your own--rather than just spouting off what you hear others say. This doesn't always come naturally to us, but luckily, it's something you can train yourself to do better. Critical thinking doesn't end. The more knowledge you cultivate, the better you'll become at thinking about it. It's navel gazing in that you're constantly thinking about thinking, but the end result is a brain that automatically forms better arguments, focused ideas, and creative solutions to problems. Via Gust MEES
Brent MacKinnon's curator insight,
February 9, 2014 8:18 AM
A very practical description with examples of ways to become better in your critical thinking. A good primer for sense making as part of the PKM framework. 
Terry Doherty's curator insight,
February 15, 2014 8:00 PM
"Navel gazing." I haven't heard that term in ages ... and don't do it near enough.
Todd Bratcher's curator insight,
February 18, 2014 6:46 PM
Critical thinking means to ask questions that need to be asked. it involves finding the significance in every piece of information you come across and formulating opinions and plans of action. You have to ask the tough questions and the best one to start with is "Why?" Critical thinking is about being curious and allowing your sense of curiosity to follow the "why".Often times following the why will lead to finding the truths and finding lies. Critical thinking is also about honing in ones BS detector. Take time to analyze information before accepting it's credibility.
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Find out how to create time in your schedule for long-term professional development.
Beth Kanter's insight:
"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn." – Pete Drucker, management consultant and writer. Great overview of personal learning strategies: 1.) Set Learning Goals 2.) Identify Obstacles 3.) Think Small 4.) Learn at Your Best 5.) Make Learning a habit 6.) Right learnining style 7) Collaborate 8) Delegate Mind tools has some great worksheets and resources worth exploring.
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A new era of personalized professional development is sweeping into schools. We've created this guide to capture the extraordinary changes in PD tools and in the cycle of learning. We look here at tools that support how teachers engage with colleagues; that help teachers learn or find support for implementing fresh strategies and approaches; and that measure how that learning impacts practice in the classroom.