Post 1: Chapter 2

   I found Chapter 2 of The Connected Educator by Sheryl Nussbaum- Beach quite interesting. This chapter had themes of connected learning communities, the differences between personal and professional learning networks, and the drive for diversity. Exploring these different themes and how they're important in different ways of education was necessary to build the readers general background of new vocabulary as well as why it may be important to note. 

       Within professional learning communities they focus on working together in grades, departments, and district wide teams to ensure a students achievement. On the flip side personal learning networks focus on the gathering of information to benefit ones self. While professional learning mainly focuses on the benefit of the school it's necessary to collect the results within the school to help with building a personal learning network. 

How to Build a Professional Learning Community With the Framework for Teaching | Teaching Channel

   To add, while keeping a connected learning community and embracing change they're able to grow from it. Adding people from different cultures, ages, and races is necessary in order to bring new ideas to the community. They show up by enhancing ideas, possibilities, insight, and even skill set to the team and it allows others to learn and grow from each others differences. 

New Grant To Improve Racial Diversity in Education - CZI News

Comments

  1. Clara Gil-HernandezSeptember 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM

    Hi Skyler ! Diversity is very important; this brings not only different cultures and backgrounds but different perspectives as well. This allows the team to grow and also get to know each other a little more. At my old job, all the staff were from different countries, so we decided to have a multicultural feast, and we had different foods from Peru, Mexico, India, and etc. Everyone was able to share a bit of their culture which exposed us to new things.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Smackdown!

Image
Video Pt 1 Video Pt 2 Source: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/     The app I chose for my smackdown presentation was TeacherPayTeachers. This app is a resource for teachers all over the globe. Within the app there are various tabs with different subjects you will be teaching within your classroom. Within these tabs you are able to select grades from Pre K to High school for supplemental activities and resources you can use or share within your classroom.      I hold this resource very near and dear to my heart and have used it various times in my 10 years I've worked with kiddos. You can find anywhere from classroom decor, addition and subtraction activities and even games for your students in any subject. When you purchase or download these resources you're supporting another educator like yourself and creating a connected community just like in the chapter six reading. This site allows teachers to build each other up and support one another while gai...
Read more

Technology Blog #2: Chapter 6

Image
    After reading Chapter 6 in The Connected Educator it heavily focused on the idea of creating a good connected community. It explained early on how they were formed and even how to evolve. I think the more important topics that were discussed within chapter six were providing roles and responsibilities, selecting a passionate leader to lead the community, and simply just building trust within each other.  Source: https://action4connection.org/     David Lee created something called the "4L model" which focused on how people of the community "self selected" their roles by the ways they chose to participate. The 4L's were Linking, Lurking, Learning, and Leading. The linkers were focused on working together and joining forces with others while the lurkers took more of a back seat and hesitated on sharing their ideas. The learners were always getting involved and loved to add to the community as much as possible just alike the leaders. Being a leader takes a...
Read more