In Search of Leadership: Innovative Approaches to Building Adaptive Learning Communities

Learning is about making connections. This range of teaching-learning connectionspermeates the teaching and learning environment. We connect new knowledge to existingknowledge; we connect the digital world with the real world; we connect students to content,students to students, and students to teacher. We connect the classroom to the world,competencies to skills, individuals to groups, and groups to communities. And, mostimportantly, we connect technology to information – information to knowledge andknowledge to application in the real world. We connect students to life (Olcott, 2014).