Students Tap into Passions to Serve Community With New Making Skills
Students connect out-of-school passions, new maker skills, and rigorous design thinking to identify a community need and construct a solution, spurring profound growth.
LRNG, #wearelrng, connected learning, maker education, makered, project-based learning
Bad Ideas About Writing: Technically Dead But Still Walking
Cheryl Ball and Drew Lowe's new FREE ebook Bad Ideas About Writing is your new #1 weapon to bury zombie ideas about writing and writing instruction for good!
Bad Ideas, Good Writing, Writing Instruction, Zombies, composition, first year writing
Sharing Connected Learning from Pittsburgh
Introducing a new collection of resources that exemplify some of the best connected learning practices from Pittsburgh.
learning innovation, makerspaces, Pittsburgh, Remake Learning, schools, connected learning, Hive, librarians, libraries, museum education, teachers
Years in the Making with Connected Learning: The Collection
Years in the Making with Connected Learning seeks to offer lessons on the evolution of Connected Learning through the vantage points of mentors, community collaboration, and interest-driven learning.
WeAreLRNG, interest-driven, community, connected learning, LRNG, mentoring, mentors
Transitioning from Conventional to Connected Teaching: Small Moves and Radical Acts
This collection shares resources created by educators across the Educator Innovator network who are working to transform their teaching in order to promote connected learning.
LRNG Innovators, connected learning, DML, LRNG
Opening the Walls of the Classroom and the Boundaries of the Park
Resources in this collection have emerged from a growing partnership between the National Park Service (NPS) and the National Writing Project (NWP) designed to bolster connected learning opportunities within the national parks and reach more young visitors and educators.
National Parks Service, National Writing Project, connected learning, professional development, teaching writing, writing
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What happens when teens from St. Louis neighborhoods come together with cameras, microphones, and laptops at UMSL Grand Center? OneCity Stories welcomed high school students, partners from St. Louis media businesses, and teachers to establish a new...
by Catherine Griner
on Oct 31, 2017
Bastrop ISD and Heart of Texas WP have partnered to form the Choice and Voice team for the LRNG grant. Our work is underway as we link Bastrop, TX K-4 teachers with community leaders to find innovative ways to share young students' writing out in...
by Katie McKay
on Sep 26, 2017
The goal of our project was to explore connected learning by connecting in-school and out of school learning in a juvenile detention center through music and video projects designed to be self-reflective stories of how the students define freedom.
by Raemona Little Taylor
on Sep 26, 2017
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What happens when a teacher is given the opportunity to play? I spent some time playing with Scratch to get a sense of how my students might approach the task of designing their own video games. Here's a screencast that I created to capture the process.
on Feb 20, 2018
by Amy Logue
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After the better part of a decade honing how I give written feedback, I’ve found a degree of success by sticking to certain practices.
on Feb 20, 2018
by David Cutler
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As a longtime writing student and new instructor at the college level, Bad Ideas About Writing put into words the discomforts that I was already feeling about institutional attitudes towards “academic writing.” While these discomforts had been brewing for a long time, I was never quite sure how to express them - or whether I was even allowed to express them. In my undergrad program, and even as far back as high school, there had always seemed to be a general underlying disdain for recent generations of students’ writing and literacy skills.
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on Jan 31, 2018
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Cheryl Ball and Drew Lowe's new FREE ebook Bad Ideas About Writing is your new #1 weapon to bury zombie ideas about writing and writing instruction for good!
on Jan 31, 2018
by Stephanie West-Puckett
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Given that one needs a phone, tablet, or computer and service to access it, the Internet is not the great equalizer that it has been touted to be.
A more affordable, convenient, and well-organized source of knowledge is an unabridged dictionary. Recently, I picked up a free copy of the unabridged edition of The Random House Dictionary of the English Language. The copy had been abandoned, along with other household items, in a box marked “FREE STUFF” on the sidewalk.
Any student who is reading below proficiency--or even below advanced--would benefit from a formal course or even a homemade study of an unabridged lexicon like Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary.
on Jan 13, 2018
by Corey Olds
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Introducing new collection of resources that exemplify some of the best connected learning practices from Pittsburgh.
learning innovation, makerspaces, Pittsburgh, Remake Learning, schools, connected learning, Hive, librarians, libraries, museum education, teachers
on Jan 9, 2018
by Patricia Monticello Kievlan
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When I studied Latin during my freshmen year of college, I was astonished to learn that our English word sentence derived from the Latin sententia, which means feeling, thought, opinion, vote, judgment, determination, will, and--of course--sentence.
Saying that sententia means sentence, which is a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses a declaration, a question, or an exclamation, does not tell a curious mind much at all. However, when one thinks of a grammatical sentence as a feeling, a thought, or even someone’s will, which is to say one’s desire or volition, a curious mind may wish to know more. After all, what does a sentence have to do with feelings?
on Jan 9, 2018
by Corey Olds
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This lesson plan was developed by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as part of the Share and Spread Connected Learning Collection, organized by The Sprout Fund with the generous support of the MacArthur Foundation.
You can download a PDF of this lesson plan and its supporting materials on RemakeLearning.org.
Developed by: Jamaal Davis, adapted from a lesson plan created by multiple CLP staff
Subjects: STEM
Estimated Time: 5 days, 2 hours per session
Grade Level: 6-8
on Nov 22, 2017
by Jamaal Davis
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This lesson plan was developed by the YMCA Lighthouse Project at the Homewood-Brushton YMCA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as part of the Share and Spread Connected Learning Collection, organized by The Sprout Fund with the generous support of the MacArthur Foundation.
on Nov 22, 2017
by James Brown