This is a guest post from Harry Brake, an Assistant Librarian and Media Specialist at the American School Foundation in Mexico City. Harry participated in two P2PU courses this year. He is also a NaNoWriMo winner for 2011. Spending more
Part 2-Social learning
The strongest participation by far in all of the P2PU School of Ed courses is happening in the discussions. (Fortuitous that we chose this logo graphic, huh? :) There are lots of posts, comments, questions back and forth, etc. Clearly,
Online PD webinar
On Tues., Oct. 18 at 5pm EDT (2pm PDT), we’ll be having a webinar to talk about online professional development for teachers — experiments, opportunities, challenges, peer learning and more. We’ll have guests from several large online PD projects, but
Trying to grok the lack of structure in peer learning
I’m reading A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change by Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown. I’m particularly interested in the part on peer learning and learning collectives. This passage struck me: [O]ne
The peer thing
As a part of my working with P2PU, I have thought a lot about the peer aspect of learning and how to facilitate peer learning. Having been a more traditional “teacher” for many years, it requires some restraint on my