Getting students to showcase what they learn

One of the trends I am personally excited about is that of students sharing what they have learnt digitally. This can come in the form a domain as the insightful article by @tvanderark points out, a blog, a portfolio or other web-based platforms. There are three underpinning concepts here: CHOICE, AUDIENCE and PROOF. Students have to make choices about what they are going to include in their learning diaries. They have to think of who is going to read their digital aritifacts and finally their assertions have to be backed up by examples - theoretical and/or practical - from the subject of study. I think I'll stop here so you can read the post below and while you're at it, see if I am practising what I preach about the THREE CONCEPTS in my own writing.

Education growing more & more student-centered - 2015 awaits Encourage Writing with a Domain, Blog & Portfolio http://t.co/plRp3dan4j

— Stephan Hughes (@defstef98) December 30, 2014

The future of education for teachers? In one word, Twitter

Reading through the archive of this Twitter chat got me thinking about how more and more teachers are seeking development and connecting with likeminded educators by means of Twitter.


I compiled some of the tweets from @TyrnaD's story about teachers and their Twitter story and put them together here


The ideas that bounced around raised some questions about

• how teachers really develop professionally
• how relevant social media is to education and vice versa
• how teachers can use Twitter as a springboard for self-learning and student facilitation