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!