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9:00 – Angela Maiers on Literacy and Learning in the 21st Century

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How do we form the best relationships; bring our best to them; build environments that nurture them; and measure our success?

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Angela Maiers

Angela Maiers works with educators, DOE’s, schools, districts and teachers reach their goals in literacy and literacy education. In her consulting work, she spends her time teaching, researching, writing, speaking, and conducting seminars across the country in the areas of literacy, learning, and 21st century education.

Angela has created, developed, and organized multiple literacy institutes reaching thousands of educators across the United States.

Angela is answering questions today about the intricacies of

Literacy and Learning in the 21st Century

  • Habitudes- Habits and Attitudes of Successful Learning
  • 21st Century Literacy and Learning
  • Engagement and Conditions of Learning
  • Twitter Engagement
  • 21st Century Education Reform
Angela is proud of her 20-year career in education, especially the years she spent as a classroom teacher.

She is currently working as an independent consultant dedicated and committed to helping DOE’s, schools, districts and teachers reach their goals in literacy and literacy education through my company Maiers Educational Services.
Follow @angelamaiers at Twitter.

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  5. All of them! Great bloggers embody all the habits and attitudes of great communicators and learners.

    Great bloggers are:
    Imaginative, passionately curious, adaptable, courageous and unafraid of pushing themselves and their readers, and persevere past writers block and new challenges!

    Which Habitude to you attribute most for your success?

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  12. I think the Habitude of Imagination is a key to successful blogging. And one that Liz is super strong in…it takes a lot of SCAMPER to keep content and community fresh, yes?

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  27. I will teaching a 12 week lesson “learning in a digital world” to 4th and 5th grade gifted students. They have been so trained to produce written products which are used as a summative assessment. Blogs are more formative assessment tools, indicators of the learning process. How do I go about addressing the difference with these students?

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  33. Hey, Angela, I can’t stick around, but I just saw your tweet about the conference and wanted to pop in to ‘eavesdrop’ here for a sec. I’ll be back tomorrow to see what I’ve missed. 🙂

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  35. #27 Jeff – great question!

    Two of my first lessons with students both on and offline are about audience and purpose. So often kids write mindlessly-

    I teach them that good blogging is about having a clear purpose-
    What is my topic, what do I want to say about my topic, how can I say it in clear and powerful ways

    Blogging is also about audience- who are my readers, what is the value I can add in their lives? What can I do to not only inform, but engage them in a conversation

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  37. Great point to Jeff, Angela. The fact that more than just the teacher is part of the reading audience…well, that makes the writing much different (and better). Now the student/writer is thinking not about what pleases the teacher and simply pass, but what does the whole audience want…yes?

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  42. #38
    Wow, that’s a great question. I think it was a combination of things – but I did start my “learnings” at a very early age – my mom was very nurturing of my curious nature, like putting newspapers in front of me at age 4. 🙂

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  43. Terry- Nice! You are lucky! I am passionate about getting this conversations into the classroom. Many students do not have great moms like yours, and helping them understand the success is more than a test score is critical!

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  49. Liz- Still working all levels. Today I was with literacy coaches all day- tomorrow withe 100 preschool and headstart educators, and end the week with HS! Never a dull moment in my life!

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  52. #50
    The district has a 27 page AUP. That may give you some idea about the district’s “support”. They would like everything to be inside Moodle. To me, there is very little difference between Moodle and Hanging papers in the hall. most teachers are overworked. I don’t think anyone in my building has heard of Twitter. There are a few trying to move ahead, though.

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  54. #52
    @jeffmason on twitter.
    Having said all that, there are people at the district level trying. Ttying to support things with the use of interactive boards, doc and digital cameras, etc. Networking beyond the walled garden, not so much.

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  55. Liz- thanks for having me! I have loved the hour. Looking forward to checking out the archives and all the good conversations I missed!

    See you all on Twitter, and for those who could not make it live tonight and still have questions:

    You can reach me angelamaiers.com
    or Twitter me @angelamaiers

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  56. I do follow you on Twitter.
    Next to RSS, I guess twitter is the strongest component of my PLN.
    Twitter and all IM is blocked in the district. Twitbin (beta not 2.0) gets me around the filters.
    I will probably develop the course as a wiki.

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