Guest Speaker – Verena Roberts

Open Learning Design Intervention

  • Real learning begins when we are left to figure something out, it’s about the doing.
  • Learning happens everywhere, creating access

Design for learning – teacher job to create access

Learning is learning, doesn’t matter the name

Formal learning theorists: Vygotsky, Dewey, Barth, Scardamalia & Bereiter

Informal: other teachers, environment

Personal Learning environments 

Interactions – Collaboration – Connections (outcomes, objectives, competencies)

  • Students being creative and innovative
  • Digital literacy ; space to build personal learning environments

Reflective

  • Journaling

OLDI

  • Relationships
  • Co-designing learning pathways
  • Building & sharing knowledge (assessment – using dig. Lit. to build PLNs)
  • Building Personal Learning Networks

Scaffolding has to happen slowly and be very intentional :

Learning Plan #1 – searching and communicating online

LP #2 – who is my online audience?

LP#3 – How do I solve community Problem?

LP #4 – What it my story based on? What is my perspective? How does my story inform my identity?

 

It was good to see the struggle-in-action of using technology. I think that it’s really important to really prepare and have pretested your system of communication if using technology. I will always prepare for the worst-case scenario when using technology. Just to know that my back-up pathways will work. and if all goes perfectly that’s great. I just would want to be prepared for any potential technological issue.

 

Presentations

OpenEd Resources – Hannah and Ruth

commonsense.org education

Integrating Technology in the Classroom – Anna, Sydney, and Kathleen

Using technology needs to be appropriately, meaningful and empowering.

Question use of technology; screening content – what is being accessed/age appropriateness/its the world but in a tiny mirror so rules and boundaries need to be discussed and held.

Is a supportive tool – use it only when it enhances activities.

3D design & printing – Nick & Jamie

amazing applications for biology, chemistry, any science topic really, math, design, and story telling!