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Christina Cantrill

TTT #289 Connected Learning and the NWP 3.21.12 | NWP Digital Is - 2 views

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    On this episode of +Teachers Teaching Teachers, we talk about Connected Learning/connecting-our-learning with Elyse Eidman-Aadahl and this amazing group of NWP teacher leaders listed here: Paul Allison, Chris Sloan, Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, Christina Cantrill, Clifford Lee, Fred Mindlin, Katie MacKay, Chad Sansing, Meenoo Rami, Lacy Manship, and Antero Garcia.
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    Specific examples named at the end include (47:56 … runs about 10 mins here): Paul Allison spoke about one student who wanted to focus on the topic of "nail polish" within in Youth Voices and the interesting connections she was able to make (and how as the teacher he was initially sceptical of this topic) … Lacy Manship about real time resources and classrooms shared via Skype with colleagues and how these can help to build powerful connections ... Katie McKay about student interest-driven "how-to" projects in her classroom and what powerful work emerged as well as connections to home and community ... Meenoo Rami about the excitement and learning -- both her learning abouther students, their personal learning and learning about eahc other -- in her homeroom/advisory during their sharing of "passion projects" ... Chad Sansing sharing about his own inquiry and artifacts he brought back from a trip to San Francisco in March with his students and how this sparked their response and projects of own interest in their own community … Elyse Eidman-Aadahl remembering I-Search projects and history of that work ... Elyse then, prompted by Paul, sharing about NWP learning in networked ways and how writing project teachers have an opportunity to live connected learning in many cases -- ie. peer-supported and collaborative learning among adults -- and how powerful that then is in practice with youth ...
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    I highly recommend listening to this episode.
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    me too :)
Christina Cantrill

Youth Voices: A a school-based social network for interest-driven writing and conversat... - 2 views

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    And related to this would be the NWP Radio episode on Youth Voices: http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3882
Christina Cantrill

Connected Learning: An Academic Quest | NWP Digital Is - 0 views

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    I'm trying to distinguish between an assignment, a project, an inquiry, a mission, and a quest. So here are some basic definitions. Below I sketch out why I'm doing this. A quest has three qualities that distinguish it from an assignment or project. 1) Students choose whether or not to do a quest at all.
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