2. Our Presenters
• Philipp Schmidt, Executive Director, P2PU
• Karen Fasimpaur, P2PU School of Ed
• Vanessa Gennarelli, P2PU Hack This Poem
Organizer
• Alan Webb, P2PU School of Social
Innovation
• Maria Droujkova, P2PU School of the
Mathematical Future
3. P2PU
• Free online platform for peer learning
– Openness
– Community
– Peer learning
• Study groups, courses, and challenges
4.
5. P2PU School of Ed
Karen Fasimpaur
karen@k12opened.com
@kfasimpaur
6. P2PU School of Ed
• Designed for K-12 educators
• A new model of professional development
• Hands-on learning driven by each educator's
needs and classroom situations
• About connecting, collaborating, and
creating, not just reading or studying
7. What We Learned in Our Pilot
• Response was overwhelmingly positive
• Learning is social – discussions were active
and powerful
• Great facilitators help make great groups
• Time for teachers is limited
• Online peer learning is new for many
8. Spring Term
New groups and courses open now!
Writing and Inquiry Connected Learning
in the Digital Age with Youth Voices
10. Introduction
• Why a poetry workshop?
• Why P2U?
• Why hack this poem?
11. Course Design
• Work with pre-existing poems to see what
makes them tick
• Determined learning goals first (poems
are carefully constructed parts)
• Exercises in line with those learning goals
12. Intro Survey
• Find out
learner goals
• Surprises!
• Determine
their comfort
with
technology
• Shared info
with learners
to build social
presence
13. Find a Poem: What
makes it work?
• Prompted learners
to find their own
content
• Several means to
express
themselves
• Introduce
background &
interests
15. Community-built
Assessment
• Elements that
made a poem
work
determined
the rubric
• Community
determined
how poems
work--
together
16. Weekly Summaries
• Aggregate
d learning
experience
from that
week
• Build-in
layers of
entry--folks
could
follow
along
17. Learner Satisfaction
Survey
• 4 folks responded
• 25% posted a poem, analyzed a
poem, gave feedback
• 100% of folks read posts
• Most common reason learners didn’t post
was that they ran out of time/too many
other commitments
18. Takeaways for Next Time
• Remix is hard
• Drafts/iterations of pieces
• Create small teams of feedback partners
• Build expectation to evaluate others’ work
• Layer in badges specifically for relevant
and insightful feedback
19. How Can I Get Involved?
• P2PU listserv
• Make a Challenge
• Writing for the Web Challenge (launches
today!)
23. Week 1: Case Studies + Reflection on Strengths
Week 2: Root Cause Analysis + Reflections
Week 3: Vision of a Perfect World -> Solutions
Week 4: Creativity Exercise + Existing Solutions
Week 5: Ecosystem + Existing Solution Interviews
Week 6: Action (back to our strengths)
Week 7: Self case study from the future
25. Open content developed with partners and with the
community
Endorsed framework for peer review and evaluation
Local face-to-face participation in Hubs, Co.Spaces
Mentor and Advisor support
26. Cross-university minors & majors in social innovation
Cross-city open courses in social innovation
Challenge creators and prototype participants
Design for Social Innovators
Systems Thinking
Social Entrepreneurship 101
etc.
Community organizers