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EDLD 5313 Reading List

Dwayne Harapnuik — August 17, 2016

5313 Bibliography via Zotero Reference Manager

Required Text:

Brown J. S. & D, Thomas. (2011). A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the imagination for a world of constant change. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 1456458884

Dweck C. (2007). Mindset: The new psychology of success. Random House. ISBN 0345472322

Wiggins G. P. & J. McTighe. (2005). Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition. Pearson. ISBN 0131950843

Please note: Understanding by Design should be used as a reference book so we will only be using the Introduction and Chapters 1 & 3.

Week 1
Read – full book
Brown J. S. & D, Thomas. (2011). A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the imagination for a world of constant change. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 1456458884

Week 2

How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice – How People Learn.pdf (Accessed through course BB site)
– Read the Introduction, Summary and Key Findings of the report

What Teachers Should Know About Learning Theories – Great starting point to get a general overview of the 4 major learning theories.
http://kb.edu.hku.hk/learning_theory_history.html

Learning theory: models, product and process In the Learning as a process – learning theory (section toward the bottom of the page) review the four linked orientations to learning: behaviourist, cognitive, humanistic, and social/situational. Also make note of the Four orientations to learning (after Merriam and Caffarella 1991: 138) table.
http://infed.org/mobi/learning-theory-models-product-and-process/

Learning Theories.com Knowledge base and webliography – WARNING this is a commercial site filled with too many adds. The only reason I am including this resource is that their first page offers a very good top level breakdown or hierarchy of all the learning theories or paradigms and the subdivisions within those categories. This site can help you understand where your thinking about learning fits.
http://www.learning-theories.com/

Learning Theory Database – Another resources that points you to all the different resources.
http://www.instructionaldesign.org/theories/index.html

Learning theories and online learning – Great starting point for exploring what learning theories work best online or in a blended format. There is a link to Tony Bates free ebook and the full chapter on Learning theories that should also be explored
http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/07/29/learning-theories-and-online-learning/

Four keys to understanding learning theories – Provides an overview of the main learning theories and how to approach exploring them.
https://www.harapnuik.org/?p=6344

Beyond information pumping: Creating a constructivist e-learning environment
https://repository.nie.edu.sg/bitstream/10497/4735/1/ET-42-5-48_a.pdf

Learning theories for the digital age
http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.ca/2013/05/learning-theories-for-digital-age.html

Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
http://www.itdl.org/journal/jan_05/article01.htm

Authentic Learning: A Practical Introduction & Guide for Implementation
https://projects.ncsu.edu/meridian/win2003/authentic_learning/

Week 3
Mapping your Learners Journey – https://www.harapnuik.org/?p=6420
Self-Directed Guide to Course Design – Fink Summary.pdf (Accessed through course BB site)

Week 4
Read: Introduction, Chapters 1 & 3
Wiggins G. P. & J. McTighe. (2005). Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition. Pearson. This text will be referred to as UbD

Read: Chapters 1 – 4
Dweck C. (2006). Mindset: The new psychology of success.

Week 5
Read: Chapters 5 – 8
Dweck C. (2006). Mindset: The new psychology of success.

Fixed Vs Growth Mindset = Print Vs Digital Information Age – https://www.harapnuik.org/?p=3627

Is “Have a Growth Mindset” the New “Just Say No” – https://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2015/09/04/is-have-a-growth-mindset-the-new-just-say-no/

Review the resources on: Mindset site – http://mindsetonline.com/

How to Change Before You Have To

Dwayne Harapnuik — February 19, 2016 — Leave a comment

Change before you have to
One of the key ideas we deal with in the Masters of Digital Learning and Leading program at Lamar University is change and how to use technology as a catalyst to bring about change in the learning environment. Reluctance to change is one of the most difficult challenges that most of us who promote the use of educational technology have to wrestle with. Ideally we would all like to work with only highly motivated colleagues and students but this is not the world we live in.

In response to a student request to share links to useful articles dealing with reluctance to change I did a quick search on my blog to find a couple really good articles or posts to share and I was surprised to notice that I have over 226 posts that are tagged with the word ”change” and dozens more posts that simply include the word change. I have several hundred notes in Evernote about change, dozens of links to articles on change in my Zotero reference database and I and hundreds more links related to change, reform, and innovation related to technology in education in my Diigo bookmarking tool. Can’t forget to mention the dozens of books about change I have in my hardcopy and digital libraries. This includes at least 6 books by John Kotter the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School, who is widely regarded as the world’s foremost authority on leadership and change.

Out of all this how to do I find the just a couple of articles, posts or links that will be most useful. I started to review some my favourite academic articles and posts and after a few hours I was reminded by my wife’s caution

when people ask you for a recommendation they aren’t asking for a literature review and they more than likely don’t want to read all the books and articles that you have read…they are just looking for an answer to a problem.

So what is the problem that my student wants to address?

How do you deal with people who are reluctant to change?

The posts listed below are what I like to refer to as intellectual mash-ups because I take an assortment of ideas and combine them together to address the problem. Each post has many embedded links to the original sources so I am confident that the perspectives presented are supported by sound original insights.

The Head Won’t Go Where the Heart Hasn’t Been
This post points to the fact that while we like to believe that we make decisions based on rational thought the reality is that we are much more emotionally driven and as the title suggest that head won’t go where the heart hasn’t been.

People who like this stuff…like this stuff
In this post I point out the key factors for why people often reluctant to change and outline my 4 step process for organizational change which has become the foundation for the graduate course Leading Organizational Change I teach at Lamar University

The following three posts are also compilations of ideas that deal with the mindset one requires to embrace change. In addition, I address the fact that we often need to model or embrace change by living it.

Sense of Urgency: Create It Now or React to It Later

Pick Two – Innovation, Change or Stability

Practice Change by Living It

It is most important to remember that while change often is a constant part of 21st century living we don’t have to fear it or just react to it and let it adversely impact our lives. If we are proactive we can embrace change and use it as an opportunity for growth and development.

In Change head, heart, organizational change, proactive, reactive, reluctance

How Would Today’s Smartest Teens Redesign Education?

Dwayne Harapnuik — November 24, 2015 — Leave a comment

During last summer’s Exponential Youth Camp (XYC) pilot at Singularity University 14 of the world’s brightest teenagers were asked to redesign the future of education. They recommended:

Make it about ME – Personalization is necessary to compete in today’s intricately specialized world.
Let’s DO things – Across the board, the teens wanted opportunities to demonstrate knowledge through real-world application, not scantrons.
Don’t ditch me in an online course – students simply desired guidance in navigating the material.
Be my coach – Students still want great teachers.
Teach me relevant skills – opportunities to build more practical skills like teamwork, problem solving and conflict resolution
Foster a growth mindset – education should make people confident in their ability to learn anything.

Read the full article…

In 21st century learning Education, redesign, teens

More Learning Myths Debunked

Dwayne Harapnuik — August 6, 2015 — Leave a comment

http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/organization/how_to_separate_learning_myths_from_reality?cid=other-eml-nsl-mip-mck-oth-1508

How to separate learning myths from reality | McKinsey & Company via kwout

McKinnsey & Company consultants Artin Atabaki, Stacey Dietsch, and Julia M. Sperling point to three myths about the brain embedded in corporate training programs and could be sabotaging their effectiveness.

Unfortunately the following myths are also widely accepted and perpetuated throughout all levels of our education systems. The McKinnsey authors refer to these as “neuromyths,” because the misconception based on incorrect interpretations of neuroscientific research.

Myth #1: The critical window of childhood
Myth #2: The idle-brain theory
Myth #3: Learning styles and the left/right brain hypothesis

Fortunately, the work of Carol Dweck on promoting growth mindsets is giving us effective research based evidence to move away from the fixed mindset thinking that is central to the critical window of childhood.

Similarly evidence based educators like Dr. Will Thalheimer, the person behind The Debunker Club a site dedicated to bringing together learning theorists who are passionate about ridding the learning field of these myths. The site targets learning myth and asks member to identify examples of myths and work to remove these myths from the literature and practice.

Most recently The Debunker Club focused on learning styles and the Learning Styles are NOT an Effective Guide for Learning Design page offers the most up to date collections of evidence based links and resources debunking this pervasive myth. Thalheimer and many of his supporters argue that if we aren’t actively engaged in stopping the spread of these myths are unintentionally supporting them.

What myths are you either intentionally or unintentionally supporting or promoting?

Read the full article…

In Learning debunk, learning styles, myths

Feed Forward Workshop

Dwayne Harapnuik — June 4, 2015 — Leave a comment

In the Improving Student Learning with Effective Feedback for the School of Health Sciences annual clinical trainers’ workshop workshop at BCIT on March 13, 2017 we explored how to:

Prepare the learner to receive feedback;
Foster a positive mindset and attitude toward learning;
Implement proven time saving feedback strategies.

The following books, videos and methods were used or referred to in the workshop. You can access the workshop slide deck from: Feed Forward Worshop-March 13-2017.pdf

Books Cited

Stone, D. & Heen, S. (2015) Thanks for the feedback: The science and art of receiving feedback well. Penguin Books

Dweck, C. (2006). Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Random House.

I have been using Carol Dwecks work for several years and written a short overview and gathered together some of the best Mindset graphics and videos that you can access from the Mindset page on this site.

Hattie, J. (2008). Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement. Routledge.

Zander, R. S., & Zander, B. (2000). The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life. Harvard Business Press.

Workshop Videos
Please note that additional videos have been included that were not viewed in the workshop.

The Science of Receiving Feedback: Mentor Workshop Introduction