RPI Day 9: Sharing

The final session has brought all of the loose ends together and afforded an opportunity to consider "where to next?" in our practice. 

Digging into the session, there are 4 main ideas: Visibility, Feedback and reflection, collaboration and whānau engagement. That is: Making the learning visible, allowing opportunities to give and receive feedback and reflect on learning, collaborating and sharing ideas, drawing in the families of our learners to comment and share with the learners.

I will print out the Pillars of Practice (below) to put up in my classroom as I'll often be referring back to it/using it to help me focus my Design For Learning.

The slide below resonated with me. I like the idea of getting reading groups to make screencasts of themselves collaborating on tasks:

Other thoughts:

1. Encouraging learners to "reach out" to Authors via Blogs, Social Media, etc. could really inspire them. I've met and rubbed shoulders with quite a few of my musical heroes (in another life, of course) and the experience has demystified that world for me. It made everything more 'real' and instilled the belief that I could be like them with a lot of hard work. I'm sure it would inspire my would-be-authors to keep stoking that fire. 

2. I've left with quite a few nuggets/ideas that I really want to try out early next term. Below is one which Robyn Anderson has used, to great results, at PBS:

3. Finding my peace in the pace has been really key to handling the additional work load. I'm not an academic, so I will often tune out once the academic words start flying. Fortunately I quickly identified that trusting in the process would be key to keeping my stress levels as low as possible. 3 new curriculum areas as well as this course? Well, with each session being 3 weeks apart I paced myself to let things filter in the first week, plan and execute in the second week, then reflect and evaluate on the week before the next session. 

4. Although I feel as though I need to let things filter again, a part of me is keen to start picking the bigger things apart so I can introduce it at the beginning of next year. I'll review everything in the next few weeks and come up with a few ideas...