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#IMMOOC Season 4, Episode 5 with Tom Murray
Published March 24, 2018 by

#IMMOOC Season 4, Episode 5 with Tom Murray

IMMOOC crew,

It’s hard to believe that this is week 5 and this week will be the end of season 4 but it’s definitely not the end of the amazing connections, learning and best of all impact on learners all over the world!

I want to send a special thank you to Tara Martin, Allyson Apsey, and Annick Rauch for all they do behind the scenes and within the community to inspire, create and make the Twitter chats run smoothly.  You ladies are AMAZING and truly inspire me every day (and make me laugh a lot too!). This iceberg image is perfect to highlight how much they do (and all of you do) that people don’t see but it shows in your work and it’s making a difference so keep it up but also make sure you recharge and rest when you need it, too.  

 

Here are some of the many awesome blogs that were shared this week.  Many crushed this 200-word challenges and created some amazing content. I hope you check these out and many of the others that are linked in the Facebook group in the week 4 thread.Teach the Way I Want to Be Taught– Paige Erickson

Common Edu-Over Prescriptions– Carolyn Cormier

Rest or Restore– Annick Rauch

8 Things Classrooms Should Have to Inspire Innovative Thinking– Adam Moler

 

Learning Experiences for Week 5: March 24- March 30

This week the focus is on the following question: What changes can you make in your own practice to move forward?

1.YouTube Live (Monday)

Our final guest for the season will be Tom Murray, Director of Innovation for #FutureReady Schools, a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education. Tom is also the co-author of Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today. Join us as we chat about schools and educators who are pushing boundaries and doing amazing work and share insights and ideas to move your own practice forward. Join us at 8pm EST/ 5pm PST (Monday, March 26th) for what I am sure will be an awesome conversation.

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 5” post.

Innovator’s Mindset #InnovatorsMindset

Suggested Reading: Part 4

  • How might we measure the impact of innovative practices in education?
  • What will you do moving forward?

Empower #EmpowerBook

Suggested Reading: Chapters 10-12

  • How can we create flexible instructional design that gives students permission to modify that design?
  • How would that maximize student engagement and thus learning?

Learner-Centered Innovation #LCInnovation

Suggested Reading: Chapters 11-12

  • Find a way to visit another classroom or school. How can you celebrate and share what you what you learned?
  • How are you working to make the world a better place by creating more thoughtful, compassionate, creative, and skilled individuals?

3. Facebook Live (Wednesday)

Check out the always entertaining, Allyson Apsey, who will be hosting a Facebook  Live session Wednesdays at 4:30 PST/7:30 EST.  Also, in case you haven’t heard, check out her upcoming book, The Path to Serendipity– It’s so good!

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- Create a Visual

Think about your most significant takeaways from IMMOOC and what you can do moving forward.  The challenge this week is to create a graphic that sums up your learning over the course of the #IMMOOC.  I can’t wait to see what people come up with because there are so many options and the possibilities are endless.

Let’s make this an awesome week and end STRONG!

All the best,

George, AJ, John + Katie

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#IMMOOC Season 4, Episode 4 with @kalebrashad and @drchagala
Published March 17, 2018 by

#IMMOOC Season 4, Episode 4 with @kalebrashad and @drchagala

Hey IMMOOC Crew,

It’s week 4!!! Thank you for all that you do to inspire, push and keep this community alive and learning.  

Here are some of the many awesome blogs that were shared this week:

Beyond the Blisters: Reaching the Sweet Music of Empowered Learners

Innovating Inside the Box

Rethinking Research and Traditions so we can Embrace Innovation 

Keep sharing, commenting, and connecting to extend the learning and impact in your community.

Learning Experiences for Week 3: March 17- March 23 

This week the focus is on the following question: How can we create conditions that empower learners?

1.YouTube Live (Monday)

I cannot wait for our YouTube Live Session with Eric Chagala and Kaleb Rashad, who are two of the most amazing leaders and enthusiastic and caring people!  Kaleb is the director at High Tech High and Eric is the principal of VIDA (highlighted in chapter 3 for those of you reading Learner-Centered Innovation). They are the perfect people to kick off the week and our focus on creating the conditions that empower learners. Join us at 8pm EST/ 5pm PST (Monday, March 19th) for what I am sure will be a powerful conversation.

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 4” post.

Innovator’s Mindset #InnovatorsMindset

Suggested Reading: Part 3

  • What elements of the 8 Things to Look For in Today’s Classrooms” exist in your professional learning or classroom? What elements are lacking?
  • What do you do to unleash the strengths of the people you serve?

Empower #EmpowerBook

Suggested Reading: Chapters 7-9

  • How do we adjust our view of assessment in ways that will make room for students to assess their own learning?” Provide an example of this new thinking.

Learner-Centered Innovation #LCInnovation

Suggested reading: Chapters 8-10

  • How do you create more opportunities to connect and provide effective feedback to support those you serve?
  • How might you create systems that minimize training and foster a culture of learning? What would you add or modify in the chart shared in chapter 9?

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- Mini Blogs

We want you to share and reflect and sometimes the blog can be overwhelming so this week the challenge is to write 2 mini blogs 300 words or less.

Here’s to a great week!

George, AJ, John + Katie

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Published February 15, 2018 by

#IMMOOC 4 Selfie Contest and Giveaway

We appreciate all of the people who have signed up for the #IMMOOC, and as a show of appreciation, Dave Burgess Consulting and IMpress Books will be giving away some prizes.

You will have the opportunity to win three books of your choice from the Dave Burgess Consulting library, so if you want to be entered, please do the following:

  1. Sign up for the #IMMOOC mailing list if you have not already joined.
  2. Tweet a selfie of you holding the book “The Innovator’s Mindset,” “Learner-Centred Innovation,” or “Empower” to the #IMMOOC hashtag (Kindle version or Paperback). Please also use the hashtag of the corresponding book so the authors can connect with you directly (Innovator’s Mindset = #IMMOOC #InnovatorsMindset, Empower = #IMMOOC #EmpowerBook, Learner-Centred Innovation = #IMMOOC #LCInnovation).
  3. Fill in this form to finalize your entry.
  4. You can enter twice if you post to your own personal Facebook with the #IMMOOC hashtag as well (you will need to fill out the entry with a link to your Facebook post as well).

There will be ten prizes given away, and we will be making the draw on March 12, 2018 (or close to that date); you have until March 9 to enter.  Winners will be contacted directly via email.

Thank you for entering! We look forward to your selfies. ?

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Published February 7, 2018 by

#IMMOOC 4 Starting February 26, 2018

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How do you move from “pockets of innovation” to a “culture of innovation”?

How do we move from “engagement” to “empowerment”?

What does innovation mean for education, and how do we create the opportunities for our staff that we want for our learners?

These are questions that will be looking at in the fourth round of #IMMOOC.

To change it up this round, participants can choose 1 of 3 books.

“The Innovator’s Mindset” by George Couros

“Empower” by AJ Juliani and John Spencer

or

“Learner-Centred Innovation” by Katie Martin

(You do not need to focus on all 3, but we encourage you to choose one for this round of #IMMOOC. Full disclosure, all three of these books are with either DBC Consulting or IMpress Books, a subsidiary company.)

Katie Martin will be leading this round, but myself (George Couros), as well as John Spencer and AJ Juliani, will all be involved in the course.  This gives participants an opportunity to discuss each book directly with the author while sharing their own user-generated content.

If you are new to #IMMOOC, I would suggest you start with “The Innovator’s Mindset.” If you have taken the course before, “Empower” is a shorter read, while “Learner-Centred Innovation” is a bit longer. All (hopefully) have a powerful and inspiring message, but you are free to choose the book that you have the most interest in.

Starting February 26, each Monday night we will have a YouTube Live session at 9 PM EST (6 PM PST), that will be consistent every Monday night based on past user feedback.  The YouTube Live sessions are planned for the following dates (same time weekly, 6 PM PST):

 

Date
February 26
March 5
March 12
March 19
March 26

We will also have a Twitter chat weekly (#IMMOOC), led by Tara Martin. are on the following dates:

March 1, 2018 9pm EST
March 8, 2018 9pm EST
March 15, 2018 9pm EST
March 22, 2018 9pm EST
March 29, 2018 9pm EST
April 5, 2018 9pm EST

We are also extremely excited to bring on some awesome guests for this experience that will share their own experiences and work, to open up the learning past the book.

We will also bring on guests for some of the YouTube Live sessions, and those will be announced in the future.

 

If you are interested in joining, please do the following:

  1. Buy a copy of “The Innovator’s Mindset“, “Empower” or “Learner-Centred Innovation“.  You do not need to purchase a copy of any of these books to participate, but it is definitely helpful to the conversations. We will have a “selfie challenge” coming soon so get your book as soon as you can so you can win a prize for our draw.
  2. Sign up for the course (also listed below).
  3. Get your blog ready to go! (I suggest either edublogs.org or wordpress.com)
  4. Share that you are joining to the #IMMOOC hashtag on Twitter and share this link for others to sign up.
  5. Join the Facebook group.

We look forward to having so many great people join this process and delving deeper into the importance of innovation in education. 

 

From “Empower”

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