Discovering Useful Ideas

If “chance favors the connected mind,” as Steven Johnson maintains, what are some of the best strategies educators can use to discover new ideas useful for teaching and learning? Learn how to use Mastodon, Mastodon lists, IFTTT, and other tools to more effectively discover, save and share ideas useful professionally and personally. Learn why it is important to customize your personal or classroom social media account to show others your particular educational focus and interests. Learn to use hashtags to connect locally and globally to learn and grow as a professional educator.

Update for December 2022

Mastodon Tips! (32 minute video screencast tutorial)

This was offered as a BYOD session at ISTE 2016 in Denver on June 27, 2016.

That session description was:

If “chance favors the connected mind,” as Steven Johnson maintains, what are some of the best strategies educators can use to discover new ideas useful for teaching and learning? Learn how to use the free apps Flipboard and Nuzzle,Twitter lists, and other strategies to more effectively discover, save and share ideas useful professionally and personally. Learn why it is important to customize your personal or classroom Twitter account to show others your particular educational focus and interests. Learn to use Twitter hashtags to connect locally and globally to learn and grow as a professional educator.

https://conference.iste.org/2016/program/search_session_detail.php?id=100555141
Discover And Curate Ideas...our Classroom ‎(June 2016)‎

Prescriptions

Get Connected:

  1. Create a Twitter account & follow some educator lists

  2. Configure & starting using Flipboard to follow Twitter Lists

  3. Use Nuzzel to filter & find top links from your PLN

  4. Use Gobo to powerfully filter your Twitter & Facebook feeds

Save NOW Consume LATER:

  1. Start using your YouTube Watch Later playlist

  2. Configure & use Pocket on your laptop and mobile device (F)

  3. Listen to Audiobooks with Audible

  4. Listen to free educational podcasts with PocketCasts (F)

Books to Read

  1. Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson (@stevenbjohnson) - Also watch the PBS series!

  2. "Here Comes Everybody" by Clay Shirky (@cshirky)

Videos

http://www.iconarchive.com/show/medical-health-icons-by-graphicloads/medicine-bowl-icon.html

View the October 2015 version of this Google presentation.

Why Become a Connected Educator?

  1. That's like asking "why use electricity" in the 1880s

  2. Moonshot Thinking (video)

http://www.iconarchive.com/show/latex-icons-by-klukeart/Latex-Electricity-icon.html
https://www.flickr.com/photos/httpwwwflickrcompeoplenadar/3349883/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/9141473102/