Hey IMMOOC Crew,
Can you believe we are beginning week 3? Me either! I want to celebrate the amazing blogs and ideas that have been generated from so many participants. I love seeing the connections that you are making and hearing the stories of what is happening in your classrooms, schools, and districts. Keep them coming!
Here are a few blogs (out of many) that I really enjoyed reading this week:
Empowered Learners: What a Student’s Project Taught me About Education by @MrsKrolicki
Change is an Opportunity for Growth by @amyjmcmillan
What’s your Message by @RichViolanti
Make sure you comment and share posts you are reading to extend the learning connect with others!
Learning Experiences for Week 3: March 10- March 16:
This week the focus is on the following question: How can you innovate inside the box? What can you do within the constraints that exist?
1.YouTube Live (Monday)
I am excited to announce that we will have Brianna Hodges as our guest on our YouTube Live Session at 8pm EST, 5pm PST (Monday, March 12th). Brianna Hodges is a #FutureReadyCoach Advisor and Digital Learning Director. She is a passionate educator and all around amazing person. Hope you will join us to talk about what we can do to “innovate inside the box.”
If you can’t make it to the live session, it will be archived on the Innovator’s Mindset YouTube Channel or you can listen to the podcast here.
2. Suggested Reading + Blog Prompts
The following blog prompts are intended for you to read, reflect, and share your insights. Suggested chapters are provided along with prompts but if there is something else that inspires you, we encourage you to share that too. Please use both the #IMMOOC and hashtag for the specific book # you are reading to share your blogs, highlights, and reflections. Also, please post your blog in the Facebook group as a comment under the “Season 4, week 2” post.
Innovator’s Mindset #InnovatorsMindset
Suggested Reading: Part 2
Blog Prompts:
How do you create or build on these conditions to support innovation? What has been the impact on those you serve?
Blog your “what if’s” for education? What impact would those have?
Empower #EmpowerBook
Suggested Reading: Chapter 4-6
Blog Prompts:
John & AJ distinguish Fail-URE as permanent while Fail-ING as a process is temporary. Describe how you see these terms play out in your classroom.
EMPOWER is a celebration of the impact teachers can have on the lives of their students. How do we amplify that impact when we empower students?
Learner-Centered Innovation #LCInnovation
Suggested Reading: Chapters 5-7
Blog Prompts:
What traditions can you rethink? What can you start doing? What can you stop doing? What can you improve?
Take a challenge that exists in your school or classroom. How can you reframe the problem to create a better solution as described in?
3. Facebook Live (Wednesday)
Allyson Apsey will be hosting a Facebook Live session Wednesdays at 4:30 PST/7:30 EST. These convos are always entertaining and insightful:).
Join the Facebook group if you haven’t already and tune in.
4. Twitter Chats (Thursday)
Tara Martin, Annick Rauch, Allyson Apsey and Katie Martin, will be hosting the Twitter chat on Thursdays at 6PST/ 9EST. Join us for a fun evening and lots of great ideas and connections.
5. Weekly Challenge
The buddy blog is back! It’s such a good opportunity to connect with someone new and share ideas.
Find a *new* buddy to blog with and share connections in the same book or across the 3 books.
Extra Challenge: Create a triad of people who are reading Innovator’s Mindset, Empower, and Learner-Centered Innovation and do a group blog response to a question based on your experience and the book your are reading.
We look forward to reading tour blogs and connections this week. Thanks for all you do!
George, AJ, John + Katie
