Welcome to the Learning Team!

We are excited to welcome you to a team of innovative education leaders participating in our mobile learning opportunity, Using Data to Inform Learning and Instruction. We hope you will actively contribute to the conversation and to our collective learning experience by using your mobile device(s) to access content, communicate with our learning team, and evaluate what worked or didn't work throughout the experience. Here are three quick things to tackle as we get started:

1. Meet the Designers/Facilitators:

Chris Dede, Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, is a leading authority on learning technologies and the ways in which they shape education. Ellen Mandinach of WestEd’s Evaluation Research Program is one of the country’s leading experts in understanding data-driven decision-making in educational settings. Dianna Nunnaley is Project Director of Using Data at TERC where she focuses on working with schools to use data to improve learning for all students. Heidi Larson, Alex Dreier and Kirsten Peterson of Education Development Center (EDC) are currently researching and developing mobile learning strategies for professional development.

As a development/facilitation team, we all have deep experience in online teaching and learning, professional development for education leaders, and using data to improve instruction. Additionally, we all share an interest in the emerging technologies around mobile learning and the power of professional learning networks. We look forward to collaborating with all of you to answer the following question: What can we learn together both about using data to improve instruction and using mobile devices to connect and converse with each other?

2. Take a few minutes (and use your mobile device) to Complete the Orientation Survey. It should open in a new window. When you are finished with the survey, you can close the browser window to return to this blog.

3. Check your email for a message from Heidi Larson with instructions for setting up your Twitter account, following others on our learning team and joining the conversation.