{"id":2611,"date":"2014-02-28T10:07:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T18:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nwp.org\/educatorinnovator\/?p=2611"},"modified":"2014-05-12T21:04:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T21:04:02","slug":"teaching-in-the-connected-learning-classroom-ebook-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/teaching-in-the-connected-learning-classroom-ebook-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom eBook Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom<\/em>, a collection published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/dmlhub.net\/\">Digital Media + Learning Research Hub<\/a>, is now available as a free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwp.org\/cs\/public\/print\/books\/teaching_in_the_connected_learning_classroom\">downloadable PDF<\/a>. This collection, unique in its focus on in-school work, explores the <a href=\"http:\/\/clalliance.org\/why-connected-learning\/\">principles of Connected Learning<\/a> exemplified in classroom practice through the curation of pieces from the National Writing Project&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalis.nwp.org\/\">Digital Is<\/a><\/em> site. It will soon be available in ebook format.<\/p>\n<p>Below is an excerpt from the Foreword by Kylie Peppler, Assistant Professor in the Learning Sciences Program at Indiana University, Bloomington:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808080;\">[The collection] is not a how-to guide or a set of discrete tools, but a journey to rethink, iterate, and assess how we can make education more relevant to today\u2019s youth. The chapters in this volume represent a bold re-envisioning of what education can look like, as well as illustrate what it means to open the doors to youth culture and the promise that this work holds.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In making examples of in-school connected learning practices more visible across a range of contexts, <em>Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom<\/em> inspires and supports conversation about the possibilities inherent in interest-driven, production-centered, and peer-mediated teaching and learning. This collection acknowledges the emergent nature of this work and in doing so, invites inquiry, exploration, and storytelling into the ways teachers are working and why.<\/p>\n<p><em>Educator Innovator<\/em> will host a webinar with the editors of <em>Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom<\/em> on March 13, 2014 at 2:30 p.m. PDT\/5:30 p.m. EDT. In addition, the National Writing Project is hosting a cafe table at the Digital Media and Learning Conference on Saturday, March 8, 2014 at 2:30 p.m. EST for anyone who is there and wants to learn more.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom<\/em> is edited by Antero Garcia along with Christina Cantrill, Danielle Filipiak, Bud Hunt, Clifford Lee, Nicole Mirra, Cindy O&#8217;Donnell-Allen, and Kylie Peppler, and features pieces written by National Writing Project educators from across the U.S.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom, a collection published by the Digital Media + Learning Research Hub, is now available as a free downloadable PDF. This collection, unique in its focus on in-school work, explores the principles of Connected Learning exemplified in classroom practice through the curation of pieces from the National Writing Project&#8217;s Digital [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":2640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,27,41],"tags":[78,572,574,89,137],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3352,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions\/3352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}