EdTechTeacher

Empowering Students With Networked Learning

May 02, 2011 - 4:00PM EDT

In this EdTechTeacher Webinar, we are very fortunate to have a chance to talk with Stone Wiske, editor of Teaching for Understanding, author of Teaching for Understanding with Technology, and a global leader in online professional development and networked learning. In this interactive session, we will explore the power of networks to improve teaching and learning.

What is the nature of the power of networked learning? How might networks improve teaching and learning? What does it take to realize that power? What are the barriers and how can thoughtful teachers work past them to support better learning for their students? Stone will start us off with some provocations, and then we will have an open conversation for the remainder of the session to explore this new terrain.

Martha Stone Wiske is a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a focus on the integration of new technologies to enhance teaching, learning, and professional development. She teaches graduate courses on curriculum design and the power of networked learning to build understanding and enhance performance. Wiske led the design of the Education with New Technologies web site and is the co-founder of WIDE World http://wideworld.gse.harvard.edu, an online professional development program developed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. WIDE World promotes application of educational research through professional communities and interactive online courses to help teachers, coaches, and school leaders strengthen teaching, learning, and systemic transformation in schools. WIDE World courses have reached over 20,000 educators in nearly 100 countries, with significant initiatives in the US, South America, Australia, China, Scotland, and Southeast Asia. Wiske co-edited Software Goes to School (Oxford University Press, 1995), edited Teaching for Understanding: Linking Research with Practice (Jossey-Bass, 1998), and was the lead author of Teaching for Understanding with Technology (Jossey-Bass, 2005).

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