Silvia Tolisano

The area of schools as storytellers and documenters of institutional memory is fascinating to me.

I read the book The Diary of Anne Frank as an eleven year old and was inspired to begin writing my own diary, which I have continued for over 30 years.

What are the best ways a teacher can demonstrate leadership in the classroom?

I am fascinated how the social media platform Snapchat is bringing global awareness to its users!

Don’t underestimate the power of Pinterest.

Below you will see a slide deck, I shared with an Elementary School during a webinar a few weeks ago addressing challenges and examples of globally connected learning.

You will create a personalized professional learning experience!

I kept thinking about the questions Beth proposes we ask when we walk into a classroom:

The new literacies and new media require of each one of us the capacity to stay constantly up to date.

Twitter can be overwhelming, even for a seasoned Twitterer.

Here are my top five “Mistakes” (in no particular order) which I see, read and hear about as I travel the world to learn and work with schools, teachers and students:

How do we make learning visible to others, so we can share, collaborate and improving how we teach and learn?

It was interesting to see that I already had a vision of documenting and sharing since the beginning.

I am co-presenting with Michael Fisher a keynote at the Wildly Exciting Education Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Here you will meet the thinkers, dreamers and innovators; some of the brightest minds in education.

It’s time to move beyond the “wow” factor of a global project designed to connect your students with other kids who happen to live halfway around the world.

Documenting student learning in the classroom is an integral component to inform the direction further instruction and content is to take.

What do you think about my statement of “the teacher has a responsibility to make connections for them”?

How can educators and students use their blogs to become their own information curators and content curators for others?

Meryl Zeidenberg and I started working on the development, articulation and design of an “If this… Then that…” type flowchart to better support teachers

Blogging should not be an add-on, not an isolated project, but should be seen as PEDAGOGY.

She asked her students to create a character and fake Facebook pages to accompany the character throughout his/her life.

Blogging is a platform that allows students to think about their Math work.

Laurel’s plan was to have students analyze the data and then create different types of graphs to be able to communicate their findings in a presentation.