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Energize Your Life With a PLN |
Participate and share : Poster
Evo Hannan Abid Patel Stephanie Howell
Many teachers will agree that they need a personal learning network (PLN). However, many teachers struggle with finding the time and people to connect with. In this session, you will learn how you can develop a strong PLN to improve your teaching and provide positive outcomes for your students.
| Audience: | Coaches, Curriculum/district specialists, Teachers |
| Skill level: | Beginner |
| Attendee devices: | Devices useful |
| Attendee device specification: | Laptop: Mac, Chromebook |
| Participant accounts, software and other materials: | None |
| Topic: | Communication & collaboration |
| ISTE Standards: | For Education Leaders: Connected Learner
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| Related exhibitors: | Screencastify, Texthelp |
Teaching and working in schools can feel very lonely and siloed. It has been historically addressed that educators are doing such amazing work, but this work isn’t being celebrated outside of the environments that they work in. There are millions of schools around the world. We are all facing similar issues and challenges, but we aren’t sharing the solutions to these challenges on the level that we should be. This is where a personalised learning network (PLN) comes in. Participants will learn why PLNs are so powerful and why they can be a vital avenue for sharing. Both in the sense of giving and receiving. Participants will learn how a PLN can be the most powerful support network in one's time of need. They will also learn how rewarding being part of a PLN can be in supporting and sharing with others.
Participants will learn how PLNs will make the world a much smaller place by allowing educators to collaborate on a truly global scale. We will talk about how we built our own PLNs and help participants get started on building their own. We’ll demonstrate how technology makes building PLNs so much easier and talk about the tools and platforms we have used.
Participants will also learn about the opportunities and positive outcomes that will come from engagement with a PLN and how it will benefit both their school communities and their own career opportunities.
We will be using and showing ISTE PLN networks.
John Hattie: https://visible-learning.org/hattie-ranking-influences-effect-sizes-learning-achievement/
Personal Learning Network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_learning_network
Developing your PLN: https://sites.google.com/a/nssed.org/nssedintegratedtech/resources/developing-your-personal-learning-network-pln
Personal Learning Network (PLN) Benefits, Tools, and Tactics: https://www.schoology.com/blog/personal-learning-network-pln-benefits-tools-and-tactics
Build your own learning network: https://teachercenter.withgoogle.com/fundamentals/unit?unit=10&lesson=13
Abid has been working in schools & EdTech for over 16 years. As the IT Director for the Leading Learning Trust, he leads on the digital transformation, digital strategy and delivery of all technology related learning experiences for the Trust. Abid has presented and spoken at many conferences and events globally. In recognition of his efforts in helping to improve digital outcomes for learners, he was awarded the title of EduFuturists Network Manager of the Year 2020 and also named in the 2020 EdTech50 “Ones to Note”.
Stephanie is the CEO of Gold EDU, a Google for Education Partner and is also the EdTech Lead for the Pickerington Local Schools District. She is key to the embedding and implementation of Google Workspace tools across her schools and organisations and would be ideally placed to have access to the roadmap to ensure that she can support her colleagues and customers better on their Google Workspace journeys.
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