under two categories; the why and the how. The articles are listed below:
The Why
Humanizing Our Organizations Through Social Media – In this post, I share what many organizations are doing around the world and how it is important that in education, we get through our culture of fear and do what we can to connect with those that we serve. Technology can empower us to connect in ways that we had never thought about before.
Everyone’s a Teacher, Everyone’s a Learner – The role of “teacher” is changing dramatically in our world as we see that everyone has something that they can share to make us better. Here are some very relevant examples of teaching and learning in our world that are pretty inspirational.
An Open Letter to School Administrators - As I become more familiar with social media and how it could be used to improve our schools, this post was written to give administrators some ideas of how they could get started with some tools, who they could follow, as well as some inspiring quotes.
This is not optional anymore - This post discusses the importance of educational administrators to start using social media and learn openly with their schools. Here is a quote from the post:
There can no longer be an “opt out” clause when dealing with technology in our schools, especially from our administrators. We need to prepare our kids to live in this world now and in the future. Change may feel hard, but it is part of learning. We expect it from our kids, we need to expect it from ourselves.