Could Professional Co-Learning be the missing element to sustained and rapid professional learning in the content areas of Digital Technologies?
Could Professional Co-Learning be the missing element to sustained and rapid professional learning in the content areas of Digital Technologies? We are in the midst of a digital revolution. The way we ‘do the work’ of teaching and learning in the CEDP looks different from what it did in 2000, 2010 and of course in 2020. Schools were tasked with the challenge of re-imagining learning for students remotely access mode; this reimagining needed to address fundamentals such as ‘how’ to synchronously or asynchronously communicate with students before considering ‘what’ to communicate. Educators Professional Learning Networks (PLN) increased in intensity and frequency of new information. There was an information explosion across all mediums from email, twitter posts, facebook group posts, youtube videos, ‘how-to’ documents, slide decks, chats, zooms and websites among other examples - the flow of information increased but the capacity or bandwidth of the receiver did not. I am part...
