{"id":176,"date":"2013-10-19T19:28:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T19:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cohort21.com\/ckirsh\/?p=176"},"modified":"2019-08-19T23:43:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T23:43:08","slug":"and-it-started-today-first-f2f-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/2013\/10\/19\/and-it-started-today-first-f2f-session\/","title":{"rendered":"And it started today (First F2F Session)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was definitely the most excited about this F2F session; I think because I actually knew what to be excited about and I had a general background with all of the &#8220;new&#8221; tools introduced today (diigo, Twitter, WordPress, and Google Apps) \u2013\u2013 in some way it was confirming to know how far I have come in this past year. And it\u00a0<i>is\u00a0<\/i>ridiculously overwhelming&#8230;by the time I had my last group come the Twitter session I was running, I could see some wider eyes and overloaded minds. The good news is that this eventually sorts itself out (we can say this, but I think people just have to experience that).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cohort21.com\/ckirsh\/files\/2013\/10\/f1e2016238f011e3b46d22000aeb0f16_5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-177 alignleft\" alt=\"f1e2016238f011e3b46d22000aeb0f16_5\" src=\"http:\/\/cohort21.com\/ckirsh\/files\/2013\/10\/f1e2016238f011e3b46d22000aeb0f16_5.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>And, I mentioned this at the big table, but it&#8217;s so important that we put ourselves in situations of cognitive shock, so that we can remember what it is like for our students to learn so much in such a little amount of time. And isn&#8217;t this a big part of what 21st Century Learning is all about: allowing the teacher to be a learner as well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was definitely the most excited about this F2F session; I think because I actually knew what to be excited about and I had a general background with all of the &#8220;new&#8221; tools introduced today (diigo, Twitter, WordPress, and Google Apps) \u2013\u2013 in some way it was confirming to know how far I have come &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/2013\/10\/19\/and-it-started-today-first-f2f-session\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And it started today (First F2F Session)!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actionplan","category-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/teachingtomorrow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}