Adam Simpson, an educator in Turkey, recently challenged bloggers to reflect on and post 11 of their best blog posts of 2011 (11 of 11). Reading several of the blogger’s posts and different takes on it has spurred me to reflect on my past year blogging and collaborating with my passionate/personal learning network (PLN) who [...]
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11 of ’11 Projects Transforming Education
It Takes a Village by Alexander Marchuk
by Guest Author, Alexander Marchuk The past decade has brought great changes to the education landscape but the real challenge has yet to be tackled with the energy it deserves. Disruptive changes in technology, politics, and policies have greatly increased the value proposition of the U.S. education system and as a result improvements have been [...]
#Edchat Summary: Bringing Students into the Discussion to Improve Schools by @inquirebook
Guest post from @inquirebook in the #Edchat Category & other 12noon NYC summaries found on Berni Wall’s blog! Today’s #edchat topic, How do we bring students into the discussion on how to improve the school environment? was intriguing. In the discussion, most participants pointed out that we cannot invite students to the table unless we are also [...]
Happy Birthday! #Edchat Turns 2!
Part of the #Edchat Category #Edchat turns TWO this week! For the last 2 years #Edchat has been the birth of conversation for over 2000 educators weekly on how to improve education worldwide! #Edchat has created real change by igniting new projects, adding more educators to the conversation, inspiring over 400 educational chats, inspiring a [...]
Education Transformation Through Social Media
Part 1 of the Education Transformation Through Collaborative Voices series In a recent #Edchat discussion I reflected, “There are more educators than politicians involved in education, yet politicians make the majority of education policy decisions. How do we change this dynamic?” One of the drawbacks of undergoing training as an educator is that we rarely [...]



