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Planning the RoutePlanning the Route
LearningLearning
What do you hope to learn?What do you hope to learn?
Personal aspirations…Personal aspirations…
Learning community aspirations…Learning community aspirations…
Individual Learning
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 (cont’d)
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
Community Learning
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
CommunityCommunity
What does “community” mean to you?What does “community” mean to you?
How would you define “learning community”?How would you define “learning community”?
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
Vision of Learning Community – 2 Accountability Support Incentive A Real Goal
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
Learning Learning Community Community
How would you relate learning and How would you relate learning and community?community?
Why would you complete your goals in this Why would you complete your goals in this manner?manner?
Learning Community Objectives 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
Laying Down the TrackLaying Down the Track
Laying Down the TrackLaying Down the Track
On each sheet, describe the following On each sheet, describe the following components:components:Background/ScopeBackground/ScopeGoals to AchieveGoals to AchieveTimelineTimeline
See See http://ftad.osu.edu/corc/fplc/current_lc.htmlhttp://ftad.osu.edu/corc/fplc/current_lc.html for learning community responses.for learning community responses.
Building the Signal BoxBuilding the Signal Box
Building the Signal BoxBuilding the Signal Box
Challenges and ProblemsChallenges and Problems Prevention and Planning AheadPrevention and Planning Ahead Behaviors and ExpectationsBehaviors and Expectations
Potential Problems
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
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
CORC Mascot Whimsy!CORC Mascot Whimsy!