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Planning the Route

Planning the Route. Learning. What do you hope to learn? Personal aspirations… Learning community aspirations…. Balance between helping with technology without overwhelming How better to present and teach How to use the technology my students are fluent with Get them where they live.

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Planning the Route

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  1. Planning the Route

  2. Learning • What do you hope to learn? Personal aspirations… Learning community aspirations…

  3. Balance between helping with technology without overwhelming How better to present and teach How to use the technology my students are fluent with Get them where they live Enhance collaboration with technology Different/Multiple ways to implement tech in a class – student diversity Find different ways of assessing Learn how to think in terms of community Individual Learning

  4. Learn Tools Learn what my colleagues think Infuse multimedia into my course How wikis can be used to share with others  motivation Tech to get students to communicate Learn more about what is available Equalizing assessments Build learning tools Incorporate tech into class Teach students to use the tech Individual Learning (cont’d)

  5. Collaboration and communication across different institutional cultures Integration Get every member to use a blog/wiki Easy to follow step-by-step Becoming proficient in use of tools How to integrate tool to improve learning Assessment Learn by teaching ourselves value of technology through own experiences Find existing resources and better use them Accreditation Community Learning

  6. Community • What does “community” mean to you? • How would you define “learning community”?

  7. Vision of Learning Community – 1 • Group of individuals sharing a common goal of improving student learning through the use of technology • A fluid, exploratory experience to reach that goal • Not a task or mandate • Learn and support each other and have FUN together

  8. Vision of Learning Community – 2 • Accountability • Support • Incentive • A Real Goal

  9. Vision of Learning Community – 3 • Participate • Buy In • Communicate • Know what’s going on; Share knowledge and resources • Structure to facilitate interaction and learning • Dealing with a cast of thousands

  10. Learning  Community • How would you relate learning and community? • Why would you complete your goals in this manner?

  11. Develop sense of community within individual learning communities Build relationships with colleagues across all learning communities within the state, connecting and sharing information, resources and using technology Employing the learning community approach, collaboratively transform teaching and learning through course innovation involving technology Continually assess student, faculty, and professional learning, the effectiveness of course innovations, and the learning community approach Learning Community Objectives

  12. Laying Down the Track

  13. Laying Down the Track On each sheet, describe the following components: • Background/Scope • Goals to Achieve • Timeline See http://ftad.osu.edu/corc/fplc/current_lc.html for learning community responses.

  14. Building the Signal Box

  15. Building the Signal Box • Challenges and Problems • Prevention and Planning Ahead • Behaviors and Expectations

  16. Unengaged LC members Booting? Removing members? Differing levels of understanding of PLC Independent Effort vs. Community Effort Technological Issues/Support getting in the way of LC work Egos Time to build community Facilitating Potential Problems

  17. Possible Strategies • Open up/expand LC goals • Check “tickets” • Revisit goals and/or clarify goals • Find out reason for dissent • Supplementary education • Tolerance of different pace

  18. CORC Mascot Whimsy!

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