{"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 \u201cnew\u201d 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\u2026by 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\u2019s 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\u2019t 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 \u201cnew\u201d 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}]}}