Multiple Paths to Success: Promoting Peer-Supported Learning Grounded in Student Interests

The National Writing Project presented the Equity and Learning in the 21st Century Classroom: Explore, Connect, Transform, a part of the webinar series. Throughout the month, we chatted with innovative educators about how Connected Learning is helping increase equity & access for their students, offer pathways to openly networked learning, and inspire civic engagement.

The realtime chat took place on Livestream (http://bit.ly/cltvlive) and Twitter (#connectedlearning) on Tuesday, Apr. 15, from 10-11am PT (1-2pm ET). We explored how teachers can create powerful, interest-driven classroom experiences for their students.

From this Series:

• Part 1—Networked Classrooms: Providing Equitable Access to Connected Learning
• Part 2—Classrooms as Community Hubs: Developing Open Digital Networks
• Part 4—Citizens in the Making: Inspiring Students to Engage in Transformative Civic Learning
• Part 5—Equity and Learning in the 21st Century Classroom: an ‘unHangout’

View the Conversation
During the broadcast, the conversation also took place on Twitter using the hashtag #connectedlearning.

Guests for this webinar included:

• Antero Garcia is an Assistant Professor in the English department at Colorado State University. From 2010-2011, he was a U.S. Department of Education Teaching Ambassador Fellow, providing teacher input and feedback on national education policy initiatives.
• Cindy O’Donnell-Allen is Chair of the English Education program and professor in the English Department at Colorado State University, where she directs the CSU Writing Project.
• Craig Watkins is a Principal Investigator with the Connected Learning Research Network where he studies young people’s social and digital media behaviors. He teaches at the University of Texas at Austin, in the departments of Radio-Television-Film, Sociology, and the Center for African and African American Studies.
• Meenoo Rami is a National Board Certified English teacher at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, PA. She also started #engchat — a network of English teachers connecting with one and another via Twitter to share ideas, resources and inspiration.
• Paul Allison is an English Teacher at New Directions Secondary School and Tech Liaison for the New York City Writing Project. He is also the creator of “Teachers Teaching Teachers,” a weekly podcast, as well as YouthVoices.net — a school-based social network where youth of all ages to voice their thoughts about their passions.

Resources for this webinar:

• Download the ‘Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom’ eBook
• Connected Learning Resources for Educators
• #wherewelearn – where do you engage in teaching in learning with youth?
• Digital IS: join and share work, reflections, and practices on digital literacy & connected learning
• Winter 2013 edition of Science Leadership Academy’s school magazine
• Meenoo Rami: “Going Public With Students’ Work”
• NEXUS magazine that Meenoo Rami’s students contributed to
• Craig Watkins’s Connected Learning Research Network Project, “The Digital Edge”

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