10Is + 10Cs = Ideagora

I was listening to some of the Connected Educator Month great speakers and sessions that I missed today. That made me think about the global educators network and how we engage in virtual communities and spaces or our IDEAGORAS. So here is my attempt to present that in a few key words in a wordle. The global connected educators 10Is + 10Cs = IDEAGORA

Afterthoughts on significant learning experiences

I was talking to a fellow educator today about student engagement in an online learning environment and referred to Dee Fink's book I finished reading a couple of weeks ago "Creating Significant Learning Experiences". As we both shared some of the significant learning that we have experienced I realized that not many educators have experienced significant learning in an online learning environment or even formal educational setting. I personally can think of one or two during completing my masters online. But what about the educators that have not experienced online learning as learners or they have but they have not been lucky to have a significant learning experience as I did. The questions that lingered in my mind after that conversation and motivated this post are:

- Is it fair to ask of educators to design significant learning experiences for their students online if they have not experienced such learning themselves?
- Can they just 'transfer' expertise and significant learning experiences they have designed for the classroom to the virtual online learning environment?

Will be interesting to hear what others think.

What are the critical literacies for educators today?

As I started to think about my project (part of my study this semester with USQ) focused on professional development for educators the questions about literacies and skills educators need to be effective today and tomorrow keep coming back and haunting me ;0).

So I decided to develop a space where educators will be exposed to and have the chance to experiment and practise those critical skills and literacies.

Now I just need to define what those skills and literacies are!

So what do you think? What are the top 3 literacies and skills that you believe are critical for educators to master?