Series: Personalized Learning
Artifacts of Participation in PLNs #GwinChat and #ForsythPLN Opening tweet from the chat I hosted for #GwinChat. I have always liked the idea/format of Twitter, but I have never really been able to get into it. However, when I started my Master’s Degree and learned about PLNs I gained enough interest to try it out. The first two PLNs that...
Co-Planning and Designing As students progress through my music technology courses, they come to realize the wide variety of careers related to the class. From a top 40 musician to a recording engineer or a foley artist to a lawyer, the jobs are pretty endless. By the time the students reach the third course, they have a pretty good idea of which...
Curated Menus This menu includes a video walking through each resource. When teachers design learning modules, they start by selecting the resources that they believe to be the most useful. The teacher is the expert on curriculum and pedagogy, so these resources may be the best but they tend to be centered around how the teacher learns. Each...
Communicating Advocacy Discord Students learn how to have professional-casual conversations though instant messaging. A natural part of the creative process is getting the opinions of your peers and bouncing ideas off of them. When COVID pushed instruction online, this physical interaction evaporated almost entirely as I had no mechanism in...
Coaching to Collaboration One of the most important soft-skills in the 21st-century is the ability to collaborate. As problems become more complex and projects become more intertwined, it is important that students understand how to work effective with others. This makes it an important skill for educators to develop throughout their students’...
